New York II: Beat of the Boroughs
Head to New York City with American Routes as we search out the beat of the boroughs. Sit in with Seleno Clarke as he hosts a Sunday night Hammond B-3 organ jam at the Harlem American Legion Hall. Pick and grin downtown in Washington Square Park as country comes to the city for a reunion of bluegrass musicians from the 1950s and ’60s. Then it’s up to the South Bronx to trace Latin music from Mambo to Hip-Hop. Plus music from and about the city from John Coltrane, Bob Dylan and other musicians that called New York home.
HOUR ONE
The Sidewalks of New York (take 5) Cannonball Adderly with Milt Jackson
Things Are Getting Better, Riverside
Take the 'A' Train Delta Rhythm Boys
The Jive is Jumpin': RCA & Bluebird Vocal Groups, 1939-52, West Side
Underneath the Harlem Moon The Fletcher Henderson Band
A Study in Frustration: The Fletcher Henderson Story, Columbia/Legacy
Drop Me Off in Harlem Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
The Great Summit: The Master Takes, Roulette Jazz
Instrumental: Blue Harlem Tiny Grimes
Hittin' On All Six: A History of the Jazz Guitar, Proper
SEGMENT: Organ Jam at American Legion Post #398 in Harlem
Harlem Country Girl Olu Dara
In the World: From Natchez to New York, Atlantic
New York City Blues Peggy Lee
Blues Cross Country, Capitol Jazz
Instrumental: Tu'Gether Willis Jackson
Giants of the Blues and Funk Tenor Sax, Prestige
Why Do Fools Fall in Love The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon
The Only Doo-Wop Collection You'll Ever Need, Shout! Factory
I Wonder Why Dion and the Belmonts
The Only Doo-Wop Collection You'll Ever Need, Shout! Factory
Uptown Loudon Wainwright III
The Atlantic Recordings, Rhino Handmade
Coney Island Washboard Swift Jewel Cowboys
Western Swing and Country Jazz, JSP
The Sheik of Avenue B Frank Crumit
From Avenue A to the Great White Way: Yiddish & American Popular Songs from 1914-1950, Columbia/Legacy
Bei Mir Bist du Schon Michael White and Klezmer Plus
Live Recording from Folk Masters Concert 1992
End Bed: When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em George Gershwin realized by Artis Wodenhouse
Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls, Nonesuch
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: On Broadway Tito Puente
50 Years of Swing, RMM
Oye Como Va Tito Puente
Nu Yorica Roots!: The Rise of Latin Music in New York City in the 1960's, Soul Jazz
Oquendo y Libre Manny Oquendo y Libre
New York City: Global Beat of the Boroughs, Smithsonian Folkways
SEGMENT: From Mambo to Hip-Hop in the Bronx
Play One Solo Harmonites
Trinidad Carnival: Steel Bands of Trinidad and Tobago, Original Digital
New York Subway Lord Invader with Felix and His Internationals
Calypso in New York, Smithsonian Folkways
Instrumental: Spanish Harlem Val Bennett
Tighten Up, Trojan
New York City Leadbelly
When the Sun Goes Down: Take This Hammer, Bluebird/RCA
Hard Times in New York Town Bob Dylan
The Bootleg Series, Volumes 1-3, Columbia
I Wouldn't Live in New York City (If They Gave Me the Whole Dang Town) Buck Owens
The Buck Owens Collection 1959-1990, Rhino
SEGMENT: Bluegrass at Washington Square Park with Toby King, Mark Horowitz, Eric Weissberg, Bob Yellin, and Roger Sprung
Instrumental: The Assassination of Stephan Grossman John Fahey
Old Fashion Love, Shanachie
New York Town Ramblin' Jack Elliott with Arlo Guthrie and Sonny Terry
Hard Travelin', Fantasy
Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue, Elektra
The Way It Is Laura Cantrell
Not The Tremblin' Kind, Diesel Only
Twelve Gates to the City Blind Gary Davis
Harlem Street Singer, Prestige
Homeward Bound Simon & Garfunkel
The Essential Simon & Garfunkel, Columbia
End Bed: Central Park West John Coltrane
The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete
Atlantic Recordings, Rhino