Saints Alive: After the Storm XI
This week we commemorate the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in music and conversation with piano professor Allen Toussaint, who shares his thoughts about the recovery of his beloved city and his recent turn toward New Orleans jazz classics on his release The Bright Mississippi. Then, up and coming jazz trumpeter and Lower 9th Ward native Shamarr Allen stops by the American Routes studios to tell of his life both before and after the storm, as well as his hopes for his hometown. Plus music and songs that reflect our shared sense of loss for what has gone, and that celebrate the continuing recovery of the Crescent City.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Bright Mississippi Allen Toussaint
The Bright Mississippi, Nonesuch
River's Invitation Percy Mayfield
His Tangerine and Atlantic Sides, Rhino
To the River Smiley Lewis
Shame, Shame, Shame, Bear Family
Old Man River AFO Executives & Tammy Lynn
Compendium, AFO
Flood Muddy Waters
The Chess Box, MCA
Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood) Bob Dylan and the Band
The Basement Tapes, CBS
Instrumental: Blue Monk/Stormy Monday Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Dirty Dozen Live: Mardi Gras in Montreux, Rounder
Blue Monk Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk, Rhino
Egyptian Fantasy Allen Toussaint
The Bright Mississippi, Nonesuch
SEGMENT: Allen Toussaint
Instrumental: Wade in the Water Little Sonny
Essential Blues: Harmonica, HoB
Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) Bessie Smith
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Best of the Blues, UTV
Backwater Blues James Blood Ulmer
Bad Blood in the City, Hyena
Rainin' in My Heart Slim Harpo
Raining in My Heart, Excello
End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Wade in the Water Dr. John
Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack, Clean Cuts
Summertime Toussaint McCall
Nothing Takes the Place of You: The Ronn Recordings, Fuel 2000
Come On In My Kitchen Cassandra Wilson
Blue Light 'Til Dawn, Blue Note
Storm Warning Dr. John
Medical School: the Early Sessions of Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack, MCI
I Think It's Going to Rain Today Nora Jones
Higher Ground: Hurricane Relief Concert, Blue Note
Didn't It Rain (Live) Mahalia Jackson
The Essential Mahalia Jackson, Columbia/Legacy
Instrumental: Backwater Blues Edgar Hayes and the Stardusters with Lloyd Glenn
The Swing Time Records Story, Capricorn
You Can Depend on Me Katrina Story Carl LeBlanc
New Orleans' Seventh Ward Griot, Preservation Hall
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans Tuts Washington
New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder
Another Man Done Gone Irma Thomas
After the Rain, Rounder
Higher Ground Stevie Wonder
Innervisions, Motown
Instrumental: Down By the Riverside Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Funeral For a Friend, Ropeadope
SEGMENT: Shamarr Allen
Walking to Louisiana Clifton Chenier
Bon Ton Roulet, Arhoolie
Walk Through the Streets of the City Joe Lastie Jr. and the Lastie Family
Joe Lastie Jr. and the Lastie Family Gospel, Preservation Hall
End Bed: When the Saints Go Marching In Jimmy Smith
Prayer Meetin', Blue Note