Music from the world’s musical melting pot, the cradle of jazz and all its offshoots: New Orleans, the city where the seed of jazz was planted at Congo Square – today’s Louis Armstrong Park.
Naturally, there is also a new episode in Michael Varekamp’s column series The Second Line. This time: Where did you sleep last night.
Playlist
- Bessie Smith – St. Louis Blues
- Mardi Gras Indians – Indian Red
- Marsalis Septet – Swing Down Swing Town
- Nueva Manteca – Cuban Ouverture / Evidence
- Chick Webb – I Can’t Dance
- Howling Wolf – I Got A Woman
- Treme / Wendell Pierce (series soundtrack) – I Don’t Stand
- Duke Ellington – Take The A-Train
- Los Hombres – El Barrio
- Ben Webster – Better Go
