Shark Jazz and Blues

On today's show we explore the interchange of jazz music between Africa and the United States.  Playlist 27 February 2024   Louis Armstrong – Potato Head Blues (2:57) ·         Tune Recreation Committee – Kwane’s Jive (4:43)      Randy Weston – Portrait of Cheikh Anta Diop (8:58) ·        “whether you say jazz or blues or bossa nova or samba, salsa – all these names are all Africa’s contribution to the Western Hemisphere. If you take out the African elements of our music, you would have nothing.” [2] ·        Cheikh Anta Diop – Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and politician.   Mulatu Astatke – Nétsanét (5:32) ·        From the compilation CD: New York – Addis – London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975   Ethioda – Musiqawi silt (5:01) ·        Montpellier, France   Black Flower – Mag...

  Playlist 20 February 2024 Today’s show, delayed because of last week’s Nor’easter, is a Madri Gras celebration of New Orleans. Wynton Marsalis – New Orleans (5:42) Louis Armstrong – Tin Roof Blues (2:59) Stéphane Grappeli – Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? (5:13) Fats Domino – Walking to New Orleans (3:08) Topsy Chapman & the Pros – Baby Won’t You Please Come Home? (5:07) Sidney Bechet and the New Orleans Feetwarmers – Shag (3:05) Gregg Stafford & Dr. Michael White – Bye & Bye / Saints (8:02) Kermit Ruffins – Drop Me Off in New Orleans (4:29) Bix Beiderbecke; Hoagy Carmichael and his Orchestra – Rockin’ Chair (3:26) Dr. Michael White – Give It Up (6:03) Preservation Hall Hot 4 and Duke Jean – Wrap Your Trouble in Dreams (4:49)   Notes  

Because of inclement weather, Shippensburg University is closed today. I will not be doing the Shark Jazz and Blues show today. Join me next week when we will celebrate Mardi Gras (a week late) with the sounds of New Orleans. 

  Today’s Show: We celebrate February Birthday. Also, we celebrate Black History Month by examining how jazz and the blues represented, chronicled, and celebrated the African American community.   Joshua Redman – Baltimore (5:38) James P. Johnson – Charleston (1:49) Sadao Watanabe – Early Spring (Live at Blue Note Tokyo) (8:37) Joe Sample – Hippies on a Corner (5:57) Mississippi Fred McDowell – Soon One Mornin’ (Death Come A-Creepin’ in My Room) (3:14) Shemekia Copeland – Clotilda’s On Fire (4:28) Gene Gilmore – The Natchez Fire (2:52) Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit (3:15) Louis Armstrong – West End Blues (3:20) Duke Ellington – It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) (3:11) Lonnie Johnson – Another Night To Cry (3:20) Bill Evans – Gloria’s Step [Take 2] (6:08)   Notes Laura Barton writes “…the root of the disconsolation that colors the blues, is perhaps, because it is a music born of a people wrenched from their homelands and bro...