PIANO PEOPLE AND MORE: JASON MORAN & HEATH ALLEN
Jazz pianist Jason Moran started out in Houston playing classical music, but found his way to jazz through Thelonious Monk. We’ll learn more about his adventures in the NYC jazz scene. Then a conversation and tour around the piano with Philadelphia cabaret player and creator Heath Allen, plus music from Fats Waller, Jerry Lee Lewis, Herbie Hancock, and Sweet Emma.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Moran Tonk Circa 1936 Jason Moran
Modernistic, Blue Note
Cane River Jimmy Witherspoon
The Bluesville Years - Volume One: Big Blues Honks and Wails, Prestige/Fantasy
If You Love Me Like You Say Albert Collins
Collins Mix, The Best of…, Virgin
Jelly Roll Charles Mingus
Mingus Ah-Um, Columbia/Legacy
Dancers in Love Duke Ellington
Piano Reflections, Capitol Jazz
Houston Jump Floyd Dixon
Cow Town Blues: The Seminal 1948-1950, Ace
Instrumental: Chica Boo Lloyd Glenn
Essential Blues Piano, HOB
SEGMENT: Jason Moran
Dust My Broom Cassandra Wilson
Loverly, Blue Note
Tou' Les Jours C'est Pas La Meme (Every Day Is Not the Same) Carol Fran
Our New Orleans 2005: A Benefit Album, Nonesuch
Instrumental: Lutcher's Leap Nellie Lutcher
Nelly Lutcher and Her Rhythm, Bear Family
Texas Woman Blues Taj Mahal
The Essential Taj Mahal, Columbia/Legacy
Twin Guitar Boogie Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
For the Last Time, Liberty
Sweet Texas Rose Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Down South in the Bayou Country, Sunnyside
Any-Kind-of-Man Victoria Spivey and Her Chicago Four
Blues Masters Vol. 11: Classic Blues Woman, Rhino
Old Man Blues Mose Allison
Gimcracks and Gewgaws, Blue Note
Lucky Old Sun Jerry Lee Lewis
Sun Classics, Charly
End Bed: Rock House Parts 1 & 2 Ray Charles
The Birth of Soul, Atlantic
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Smashin' Thirds Fats Waller
At the Piano (Bluebird’s Best Series), BMG
Piano Man Billy Eckstine and Count Basie
Basie/Eckstine, Inc, Roulette
Must Have Been the Devil Otis Spann
The Blues Never Die, Blues Classics
Funny How Time Slips Away Dr. John
Things Happen That Way, Rounder
Instrumental: Piano Roll Blues Little Willie Littlefield
The Red One, Oldie Blues
Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock
Takin’ Off, Blue Note
St. Louis Blues Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder
Gershwin’s World, Verve
Ragged but Right Moon Mullican
I’ll Sail My Ship Alone, Gusto
I'll Sail My Ship Alone Linda Gail Lewis
Moon and Stars, Velcor
Old Kidney Stew Eddie Vinson
Kidney Stew Is Fine, Delmark
None of My Jelly Roll Sweet Emma Barrett
Sweet Emma Barrett and her New Orleans Music, GHB Records
Gumbo Blues Smiley Lewis
Presenting Smiley Lewis, Universal
Instrumental: Nowhere to Go Allen Toussaint
The Wild Sounds of New Orleans, RCA Victor
SEGMENT: Heath Allen
Closing Bed: My Blue Heaven Mary Lou Williams
Black Christ of the Andes, Smithsonian Folkways