Playlist, February 25, 2009

Playlist, February 25, 2009

Host: Parker Mah
Afro-jazz Special for Black History Month

Art Blakey & Sabu - "Buhaina Chant" - (Orgy in Rhythm, 1957)
Dee Dee Bridgewater - "Footprints" - (Red Earth - A Malian Journey, 2007)
The Manhattan Brothers - "Marie" - (The Very Best Of, 195?)
Miriam Makeba and the Skylarks - "Siyavuya" - (Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks, Vol. 1, 195?)
The Jazz Epistles - "Scullery Department" - (Freedom Blues: South African Jazz Under Apartheid, 1960)
Dollar Brand Trio - "Dollar's Dance" - (Duke Ellington Presents, 1963)
Abdullah Ibrahim - “District Six” - (African Magic, 2002)
Duke Ellington - “Moonbow” - (Afro-Bossa, 1963)
*Joe Sealy - “Duke’s in Town” - (Africville Suite, 1996)
John Coltrane - “Songs of the Underground Railroad” - (The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions, 1961)
Winston ‘Mankunku’ Ngozi - “Yakhal’ Inkomo (Bellowing Bull)” - (Yakhal’ Inkomo, 1968)
Mulatu Astatke - “Nètsanèt (Liberty)” - (Ethiopiques 04 - Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 197?)
Dar es Salaam Jazz Band - “Mpenzi Usemayo (What you say, my love)” - (Zanzibara 3 : The 1960s sound of Tanzania, 1967)
Randy Weston - “Niger Mambo” - (Uhuru Afrika - Highlife, 1960)
Nina Simone - “I Wish I Knew (How it Would Feel To Be Free)” - (Silk & Soul, 1967)
Louis Armstrong - “Skokiaan” - (50 funky years: the People Shall Groove: A Soundtrek, 1954)
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - “Gwenyana” - (Dance With the Ancestors, 1993)