E07 Great Jazz Cities: New Orleans

We continue our tour of America’s great jazz cities with the sites and sounds of New Orleans jazz and its origins in the early twentieth century, the parade tradition known as Second Line, and explore how Hurricane Katrina has reshaped the New Orleans jazz scene. We’ll talk with jazz historian Bruce Raeburn about the birth of jazz in New Orleans, get to know the raucous New Orleans parade tradition that is Second Line, chat with Louis Armstrong historian Ricky Riccardi about Satchmo’s wild and wooly years growing up on the streets of the Crescent City, and see how jazz has found new life after the devastating effects from Hurricane Katrina. 

 

Episode Transcript

 

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Bruce Raeburn, Ricky Riccardi

 

Music

• Clifton Chenier “Tous Les Jours Mon Coeur Est Blue (Every Day I Have The Blues)”
• Treme Brass Band “Bucket's Got a Hole in it”
• Treme Brass Band “The Treme Song”
• New Birth Brass Band “Wolf Stuff”
• Sidney Bechet “Black Stick”
• Clifton Chenier “Je Marche Le Plancher (You Know It Ain't Fair)”
• Louis Armstrong “Perdido Street Blues”
• Louis Armstrong “Bucket’s Got A Hole In It”
• Treme Brass Band “Big Chief”
• Treme Brass Band “Tuba Fats”
• New Birth Brass Band “Apache”
• Dirty Dozen Brass Band “A Closer Walk”
• Hot 8 Brass Band “Skeet Skeet”
• Terence Blanchard’s “Ghosts of Congo Square”
• Galactic featuring Irma Thomas “Heart of Steel” 

 

Original Air Date: February 18, 2012

 

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Interlochen Public Radio

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

 

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

 

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