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"Out There A Minute" with Micheal Akutagawa (archive)

Jazz Program
Sunday, December 7, 2014 | 09:00 to 11:00 | Specialty

Artist Song Album Label Comments
Susie Ibarra Anitos Folkloriko Tzadik Anitos are the spirits in Philippine folktales. Sometimes they are in the woods, sometimes they are in the trees. Sometimes they are the little people who took your food off the table.
Sun Ra & His Arkestra Out There A Minute Out There A Minute Blast First
Yusef Lateef Morning Jazz Mood MCPS Reissued as part of a six-disc set, "Yusef Lateef: Six Classic Albums".
Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society Darn My Socks Whispers From The Archive Porter
Eddie Shaw Dunkin' Donuts Woman In The Land Of The Crossroads Rooster Blues
Robert Shaw Groceries On My Shelf (Piggly Wiggly) Texas Barrelhouse Piano Arhoolie
The New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra Purple Rose Of Cairo Creole Belles Arhoolie
Michihiro Sato & John Zorn Two Ronin Ganryu Island Tzadik The two ronin being legendary samurai warriors Miyamoto Mushsashi & Sasaki Kojiro, who engaged in an epic battle on Ganryu Island.
Michihiro Sato & John Zorn Ganryu Island Ganryu Island Tzadik
Kasagi Shizuko St. Louis Blues Japanese Retro Hits, The Pre-War Years Musical Ark
Kasagi Shizuko Tokyo Boogie Woogie Japanese Retro Hits, The Post-War Years Musical Ark
Duke Ellington Snake Hip Dance The Okeh Ellington Columbia / Legacy
Robert Hurst The Snake Charmer Robert Hurst Presents DIW
Sonny Lester & His Big Burlesque Band Lament For Strippers Only Ioda
Aaron Neville Cry Me A River The Classic Aaron Neville Rounder
Memphis Minnie My Baby Don't Want Me No More Hoodoo Lady (1933 - 1937) Legacy
Memphis Slim & Canned Heat Trouble Everywhere I Go Memphis Heat Sunnyside
Memphis Slim Everyday I Have The Blues The Folkways Years 1959 - 1973 Smithsonian Folkways
Thelonious Monk Bright Mississippi Live At The It Club -- Complete Columbia Legacy
Eddie Tigner Did You Ever See A Monkey Play A Fiddle? Slippin' In Music Maker For Yoko(mole)
Charlie Haden & Hank Jones Going Home Come Sunday Decca To my Family: Yoko, Mizuki, and Takuma. Melody is played over the PA system in Japanese neighborhoods at the end of the day. "I pluck chrysanthemums beneath the eastern hedge / And gaze after at the southern mountains / The mountain air is fine at evening of the day / And flying birds return together homewards / Within these things there is a hint of Truth / But when I start to tell it, I cannot find the words" (Tao Yuanming)
Allen Toussaint St. James Infirmary The Bright Mississippi Nonesuch