David Amram & Marcus Roberts
We profile two men that begin in classical and jazz and move in differing directions. Buttressed by a conservatory background, French horn player and composer David Amram moves freely and eclectically across genres of Latin, jazz, folk and classical music. Blind pianist Marcus Roberts speaks about his time spent as protégé of Wynton Marsalis and looks back over the history of jazz to his touchstones, James P. Johnson, Monk, Jelly Roll Morton and others.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: New Orleans Blues Marcus Roberts
New Orleans Meets Harlem
Doctor Jazz Jelly Roll Morton
Birth of the Hot, Bluebird
Slim's Jam Slim Gaillard
The Savoy Story: Volume One - Jazz, Savoy Jazz
Ain't She Sweet Willie the Lion Smith
Music On My Mind, Universal
They Can't Take That Away From Me Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Verve
Sweet Lorraine Nat 'King' Cole
The Definitive Nat 'King' Cole, Blue Note
Instrumental: The Crave Jelly Roll Morton
Last Sessions, GRP
INTERVIEW: Marcus Roberts
Instrumental: Jungle Blues Marcus Roberts
Alone With Three Giants, BMG
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out Billie and DeDe Pierce
New Orleans: The Living Legends, Riverside
Trouble in Mind Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Essential Women in Blues, HOB
Mood Indigo Charlie Rich
Pictures and Paintings, Sire/Warner Bros.
Groove Waltz McCoy Tyner
Nights Of Blues & Ballads, Impulse!
Driftin' Blues Sam Cooke
The Rhythm and the Blues, RCA
End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Travelling Blues David Amram & Friends
At Home / Around the World, Flying Fish
One O'Clock Jump Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Sing A Song of Basie, Verve
Don't Get Around Much Anymore Mose Allison
Greatest Hits, Prestige
Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer) Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
For the Last Time, Liberty
Dipper Mouth Blues Arturo Sandoval
Trumpet Evolution, Crescent Moon/Columbia
Instrumental: West End Blues King Oliver and His Orchestra
1929-1930, JSP
Oop-Pop-A-Da Dizzy Gillespie
The Complete RCA Victor Recordings, Bluebird
Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Part 1) Jessie Hill
Crescent City Soul: The Sound of New Orleans 1947 - 1974, EMI
If Dogs Run Free Bob Dylan
New Morning, Columbia
Pull My Daisy David Amram Quintet w/Lynn Sheffield
The Beat Generation, Rhino/Word Beat
INTERVIEW: David Amram
Instrumental: I'll Fly Away John Medeski, The North Mississippi Allstars, and Robert Randolf
The Word, Ropadope
Lord, Give Me Just a Little More Time Marty Stuart
Souls' Chapel, Superlatone
(Jesus Hits Like the) Atom Bomb The Blind Boys of Alabama
Atom Bomb, Real World
Christo Redemptor Charlie Musselwhite
Stand Back! Here Comes Charlie Musselwhite's South Side Band, Vanguard
House of the Rising Sun The Animals
The Complete Animals, EMI
Amen Jolie Holland
Escondida, Anti
End Bed: Basin Street Blues Henry Butler
American Routes original recording