Classical Routes
For too long classical and popular music have existed in different worlds, and on this American Routes we’ll take a look at where those worlds have actually collided: how high art music crosses over with the folk, jazz, and avant-garde forms. Music from George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, Stephen Foster, Mark O’Connor and Steve Reich. Plus the adventures of 19th century New Orleans pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. It’s roots with strings on American Routes.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Creole Eyes Tom McDermott & Evan Christopher
Danza, STR
Chopin's One Minute Waltz James Booker
Let's Make a Better World: Live in Leipzig, Black Sun Music
The Entertainer Marcus Roberts
Joy of Joplin, Sony
I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say Jelly Roll Morton
Jazzin' The Blues, Westside
Instrumental: Kismet Rag Scott Joplin
King of Ragtime Writers, Biograph
SEGMENT: Fred Starr on Gottschalk
Symphony No.1 (Afro-American): I. Moderato assai William Grant Still
Still: Symphony No.1 / Ellington: 'River' Suite - Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Chandos
Concerto for Cootie Duke Ellington
Battle of the Bands Duke Ellington vs. Count Basie, BMG
Instrumental: Rhapsody In Blue George Gershwin
Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls, Nonesuch
CLIP: Wynton Marsalis
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child Wynton Marsalis
Portrait, Sony
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child Paul Robeson
Songs of Free Men 1940-1945, Sony Classical
Indiana Art Tatum
The Complete Capitol Recordings, Capitol
I Loves You Porgy Nina Simone
My Baby Just Cares For Me, Charly
Novelty Abridgement of Rhapsody in Blue Borah Minnivitch & Harmonica Rascals
From Gershwin's Time: 1920-1945, Sony Classical
O, Susanna Carson Robison & His Pioneers
Home, Sweet Home on the Prairie, ASV
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Schizoozy Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor
Appalachia Waltz, Sony
Russian Rag Lieut. Jim Europe and the 369th Hell Fighter Band
The Complete Recordings, Memphis Archives
Julian En El Cabaret Orquesta Tipica Criolla
The Cuban Danzon: Before There Was Jazz 1906-1929, Arhoolie
Will O' The Wisp Miles Davis and Gil Evans
Sketches of Spain, Columbia
CLIP: Hannibal Lokumbe
Libation: Harvest, 16th Century West Africa - Girot: 'Dafengba! Hannibal
Hannibal: African Portraits, TELDEC
Electric Counterpoint (Slow) Steve Reich and Pat Metheny
Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint, Elektra/Nonesuch
Emanuele Arciuli, piano
Live at the Miller Theatre in 2002, U of Cincinnati
Round Midnight Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk, Blue Note
Lament I Moondog
Moondog, CBS
Instrumental: Elegy for William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg Brad Mehldau Elegiac Cycle, Warner
Minor Swing Django Reinhardt
The Best of Django Reinhardt, Blue Note
Sweet Georgia Brown Yehudi Menuhin & Stephane Grappelli
Jalousie, Angel
CLIP: Mark O'Connor
1B Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor
Appalachian Journey, Sony Classical
Artistry In Western Swing Tex Williams & His Western Caravan
Heroes of Country Music Vol.1, Rhino
Instrumental: Sonata V John Cage
Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, Naxos
Crossroads Turtle Island String Quartet
A Retrospective, Windham Hill
Roll Over Beethoven Charlie Feathers
Honky Tonk Man, New Rose
Prolog Marianne Faithful
The Seven Deadly Sins, RCA
Marie Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Reprise
Rhapsody in Blue George Gershwin & Paul Whiteman
Historic Gershwin Recordings, Sony
End Bed: Aunt Hagar's Blues James P. Johnson
The Original James P. Johnson 1942-45, Folkways