ECLECTIC EXCELLENCE: PITTSBURGH GUITARIST GEORGE BENSON & NEW ORLEANS CLARINETIST AURORA NEALAND
We explore eclectic excellence with African American jazz guitar elder George Benson, who started with guitar/organ trios and has a signature sound for the ages. Then young clarinet/sax virtuoso Aurora Nealand plays traditional and modern jazz, and more, crediting Stravinsky, New Orleans Sidney Bechet and “hippie parents” for inspiration. Plus music from BB King, Louis Prima, Ella Fitzgerald and Chet Atkins.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Benson's Rider George Benson
The George Benson Cookbook, Sony
Organ Grinder's Swing Jimmy Smith, with Kenny Burrell & Grady Tate
The Organ Grinder's Swing, Verve
Three-Four, the Blues Hank Garland
Jazz Winds from a New Direction, Columbia
Down South Blues Chet Atkins and Merle Travis
The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show, Sony
Guitar Man Jerry Reed
The Unbelievable Guitar and Voice of Jerry Reed, Sony
Instrumental: Ain't That Peculiar George Benson Quartet
It's Uptown, Sony
If You Love Me The Altairs
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SEGMENT: George Benson
Blue Monday George Benson
Walking to New Orleans, Mascot
I Hear You Knockin' Fats Domino
The Big Beat of Dave Bartholomew, Capital
Instrumental: Peg-Leg Jack George Benson
Benson Burner, Columbia
Lucille BB King
Lucille, Bluesway
Wade in the Water Staple Singers
Freedom Highway, Epic
When I Look Back Dedicated Men of Zion
Can't Turn Me Round, Bible and Tire Records
End Bed: I Don't Know George Benson and Jack McDuff
George Benson and Jack McDuff, Concord
Hour Two
Open Bed: Cakewalking Babies Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses
A Tribute to Sidney Bechet: Live at Preservation Hall, New Orleans, Aurora Nealand
The Music Goes Round and Round Louis Prima
Louis Prima—Capitol Collectors Series, Capitol
Treme Second Line Kermit Ruffins
We Partyin' Traditional Style, Basin Street
Everytime I Hear that Mellow Saxophone Roy Montrell
Mardi Gras Blues, Master Classics
Careless Love Billie and DeDe Pierce
Music of New Orleans, Vol. 3: Music of the Dance Halls, Smithsonian Folkways
Far from Your Web Leyla McCalla with Aurora Nealand
A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey, Jazz Village
Instrumental: Portrait of Sidney Bechet Duke Ellington
New Orleans Suite, Atlantic
SEGMENT: Aurora Nealand
Way Back in the 1960s The Incredible String Band
The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion—The Incredible String Band, Elektra
Teach Your Children Crosby Stills Nash and Young
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young—Deja Vu, Atlantic
Instrumental: Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet
The Best of Sidney Bechet, Blue Note
Somebody Loan Me a Dime Jimmy Johnson
Everyday of Your Life, Delmark
That Lucky Old Sun Big Mama Thornton
Big Mama Thornton—Stronger Than Dirt, UMG
Blues Skies Ella Fitzgerald
Get Happy, Victor
End Bed: Big Nick Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, Impulse