SONNY ROLLINS & BOB FRENCH
Saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins has been igniting the jazz scene ever since he was a kid in the 1940s, hanging out with his mentor Thelonious Monk. We’ll talk with the jazz master about his work with Miles and Monk among others, and his improvisatory explorations. Then, we’ll visit with New Orleans’ own jazz legend, the late Bob French, who led the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, to learn the finer points of keeping time in the Crescent City.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: The Freedom Suite Sonny Rollins
Freedom Suite, Riverside
Green Dolphin Street Nancy Wilson
The Best of Nancy Wilson: The Jazz and Blues Sessions, Capitol Jazz
Oleo Miles Davis
Bags Groove, Prestige
My Window Faces South Fats Waller
Fats Waller and His Rhythm: The Middle Years Part I, 1936-38, Bluebird/ RCA
Cow-Cow Boogie Ella Mae Morse with Freddie Slack & His Orchestra
From the Vaults, Volume 1: The Birth of a Label, Capitol
Instrumental: Hold 'Em Joe Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins' Finest Hour, UMVD
Calypso Be Bop Lord Flea & Calypsonians
Swingin' Calypsos, Capitol
Trinidad, Hello Dizzy Gillespie
Jambo Caribe, Verve
SEGMENT: Sonny Rollins Part 1
Instrumental: On the Sunny Side of the Street Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins
Sonny Side Up, Verve
SEGMENT: Sonny Rollins Part 2
I'm a Cowboy Danny Barker
Save the Bones, Orleans
The Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
It Ain't Necessarily So Mary Lou Williams
The First Lady of the Piano 1952-1971, Giants of Jazz
East of the Sun (West of the Moon) Billie Holiday
Solitude, Polygram
End Bed: Softly as in a Morning Sunrise Sonny Rollins
Ballads: Sonny Rollins, Blue Note
HOUR TWO
New Orleans Stomp Louis Armstrong
The New Orleans Collection , CMC
Blue Yodel No. 9 Jimmie Rodgers, Louis Armstrong and Lil Hardin
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Columbia
Muskrat Ramble Bob French's Original Tuxedo Jazz Band
Livin' the Legacy, Royal Tuxedo
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home Nellie Lutcher
Nellie Lutcher and Her Rhythm, Bear Family
I Think You Get What I Mean Nat King Cole Trio
The Cocktail Combos, Capitol
Instrumental: Easy Listening Blues Nat King Cole Trio
The Cocktail Combos, Capitol
Les Oignons Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet
Alligator Purse, Yep Roc
Eh La Bas Billie and DeDe Pierce
Gulf Coast Blues, Arhoolie
Heebies Jeebies George Lewis and His New Orleans Stompers
George Lewis and His New Orleans Stompers, Blue Note
SEGMENT: Bob French
Instrumental: El Paso Rock Long John Hunter
Ooh Wee Pretty Baby!, Norton
Ponderosa Stomp Lazy Lester
House Rockin' & Hip Shakin' Volume 4: Bayou Blues Harp, Hip-O
Barefootin' Robert Parker
Barefootin': Golden Classics, Collectables
Linda Lu Ray Sharpe
Linda Lu, Bear Family
A Certain Girl Ernie K-Doe
Absolutely the Best, Fuel 2000
I'm a Country Boy Blind Snooks Eaglin
That's All Right, Prestige/Bluesville
End Bed: Basin Street Blues Henry Butler
American Routes original recording