New York, New York
American Routes tackles the musical Big Apple with singing cabdrivers, subway bluesmen, and banging on a can. Naturally there’ll be club jazz and folk, Jewish klezmer, Latin rhythms, Irish sessions, a touch of Broadway, and atmospheric avant-garde—from the sidewalks to the skyscrapers, from the East Side to the West, from the Village to Harlem.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: The Sidewalks of NY Duke Ellington Orchestra
The Complete RCA Victor Recordings, RCA Victor
There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York Louis Armstrong
Our Love is Here to Stay - Ella & Louis Sing Gershwin, Verve
Funky Broadway Dyke & the Blazers
Standing on the Verge: The Roots of Funk, Shanachie
Life During Wartime Talking Heads
Fear of Music, Sire
Going To New York Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed: The Classic Recording, Tomato
INTERVIEW: Carolina Slim
Take the ‘A' Train Delta Rhythm Boys
Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 3, Rounder
A Helluva Town George Russell
New York, NY, Impulse
Instrumental: Spanish Harlem Val Bennett
Tighten Up Volume 1, Trojan
Bob Dylan's Blues Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Columbia
Chinatown Luna
Penthouse, Elektra
On Broadway Tito Puente
50 Years of Swing, RMM
America West Side Story
West Side Story: Original Sound Track Recording, Columbia
Dancing the Meringue Jose Quesada y los Cinco Diablos
Carnegie Hall / Folkmasters Radio Series
Instrumental: Take the ‘A' Train Esquivel!
Cabaret Manana, RCA
SEGMENT: New York cab drivers
Taxi/Drumming Original Broadway Cast
Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk, RCA
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Bob and Nico Lounge Lizards
No Pain For Cakes, Antilles
New York City Blues Peggy Lee w/ the Quincy Jones Orchestra
Blues Cross Country, Capitol
Boogaloo Down Broadway Fantastic Johnny C
Beg, Scream & Shout, Rhino
Walk on the Wild Side Lou Reed
Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed, BMG
Saxophone Factory Steve Dalachinsky
Incomplete Directions, Knitting Factory
52nd St. Theme Sonny Rollins
The Complete RCA, RCA
Instrumental: The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory Bang on a Can
Cheating, Lying Stealing, Sony
SEGMENT: Bang on a Can Festival
Second Avenue Squaredance Abe Ellstein Orchestra
Dave Tarras: Yiddish American Klezmer Music, Yazoo
42nd St. Boswell Sisters
That's How Rhythm Was Born, Columbia/Legacy
NYU Woody Allen
Standup Comic, Rhino
Instrumental: The Fisherman Leo Kottke
6- and 12-String Guitar, Takoma
New York Town Woody Guthrie
This Land is Your Land, Folkways
Angels in Harlem Smokey Hogg
Angels in Harlem, Specialty
Farther Along The Golden Jubilees
New York Grass Roots Gospel, Global Village
Harlem Air Shaft Duke Ellington
The Complete RCA Recordings, RCA
Moondog Tony Schwartz
NY 19, Folkways
Sounds of Silence Simon and Garfunkel
Old Friends, Sony
End Bed: Megamix Steve Reich remix by Tranquility Bass