Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage Collection
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- 2016 Rhiannon Giddens
- Nick Spitzer interviewer
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- 2016 Sam Doores and Riley Downing
- Members of the Deslondes, John Swenson interviewer
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- 2016 T'Monde
- Cajun tradition meets classic country harmony. Jim Hobbs interviewer
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- 2016 The Life and Music of Allen Toussaint
- with Irma Thomas, Cyril Neville, Renard Poche, Herman LeBeaux, and C. Reginald Toussaint. Ben Sandmel interviewer
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- 2016 The Mashup
- Ike Stubblefield, Terence Higgins, Grant Green Jr. Jason Patterson interviewer
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- 2016 Tommy Malone and John Magnie
- Members of the subdudes, David Frick interviewer
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- 2016 Tommy McLain
- The 'Sweet Dreams' Swamp-Pop Crooner. Steve Armbruster interviewer
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- 2016 Tony Hall
- The Groove Master. Rick Coleman interviewer
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- 2017 Barry Jean Ancelet & Sam Broussard
- Broken Promised Land. Interviewer, Ben Sandmel, 02:57 Barry Ancelet explains that he generally sits in the interviewer’s chair 03:18 Ancelet gets into his history with Sam Broussard 03:52 Some of the folks Broussard has toured with are listed 04:21 Ancelet gets back into how he and Broussard wound up recording an album; began with fooling around setting Ancelet’s poetry to music 07:38 Ancelet introduces how they’ll compares snippets of CD tracks to live versions which they figured out by paring down numbers to make them performable in public 10:17 Broussard explains that he and Ancelet being of Cajun descent, and they’re using Cajun French, are what make their album Cajun 14:24 Demonstration “Conte des Faits” 18:01 Demonstration “Trop de Pas” 23:00 Broussard explains conception studio, his in-home studio where the album was recorded 26:13 Ancelet explains the lyrics of “Appuye Dessus la Barre” 27:27 Demonstration “Appuye Dessus la Barre” 31:59 Broussard explains the primacy of lyrics 33:28 Ancelet speaks on the lyrics of what he thinks will be the signature song of their next album 35:42 Ancelet explains how Anna Laura Edmiston came to be on the album 37:14 Demonstration “Couer Cassé” 39:01 Ancelet discusses his preoccupation with werewolves, the subject of “Le Loup” 40:22 Demonstration “Le Loup”
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- 2017 Celebrating Buckwheat Zydeco
- With Nathan Williams, CJ Chenier, Lee Allen Zeno. Interviewer, Herman Fuselier, 01:38 Demonstration “Hard To Stop” 05:38 Herman Fuselier and Lee Allen Zeno discuss the first band Zeno played in with Buckwheat, Buckwheat and the Hitchhikers 05:52 Zeno explains how he met and began playing with Buckwheat 07:20 Zeno discusses how Buckwheat taught him to hear, rather than read, music 08:09 Zeno shares his personal highlight, playing with the Boston Pops, from touring with Buckwheat Zydeco 09:26 Zeno shares his experiences playing President Clinton’s inaugurations 10:00 CJ Chenier explains his introduction to Buckwheat 11:42 Chenier discusses his and Buckwheat’s father’s relationship and the music they created together 14:14 Nathan Williams explains his history with Buckwheat 17:32 Williams shares Buckwheat’s great advice to him 18:31 Demonstration 21:55 Chenier addresses fact that young zydeco players today are no longer playing the blues 22:27 Zeno speaks to the current status of Buckwheat’s band 23:25 Zeno describes working with Buckwheat 24:09 Chenier and Zeno describe gigging with Zydeco 27:06 Williams explains the importance of improvising a set list 29:22 Demonstration “Ya Ya” 34:19 Demonstration
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- 2017 Celebrating Pete Fountain
- With Tim Laughlin and Benny Harrell. Interviewer, Keith Spera,, 02:09 Benny Harrell speaks to Pete Fountain’s epitomization of New Orleans, including how unimpressed he was by fame 03:34 Tim Laughlin describes how Fountain’s playing marked him as being from New Orleans 05:27 Laughlin describes Fountain’s three primary musical influences, Irving Fazola, Benny Goodman and Eddie Miller 09:05 Harrell describes Fountain’s obsession with reeds 09:55 Harrell recounts an encounter between Fountain and Sidney Forrest, illustrating their disagreement over whether or not to frequently change reeds 10:35 Harrell and Laughlin recollect one of Fountain’s last encounters with his granddaughter Izzy 11:57 Demonstration Laughlin demonstrates Fazola’s style 12:52 Laughlin explains how Fazola was a nickname 13:47 Demonstration Laughlin demonstrates Fazola’s blues sound 15:15 Harrell explains Fountain’s distaste for interviews 15:37 Laughlin tells the story of how he first met Fountain 19:31 Harrell explains that Fountain encouraged younger musicians to study but not to emulate him 19:58 Laughlin explains his predilection to try and think like, rather than play like, other musicians 20:50 Harrell describes Fountain’s gift for improvisation 22:07 Harrell and Laughlin discuss Fountain’s joy in both his playing and his personnel 23:11 Laughlin clarifies that in the ‘60s Fountain was considered a mainstream, rather than traditional, player 23:49 Laughlin gives some background on Eddie Miller 24:29 Demonstration “Wolverine Blues” 25:42 Harrell and Laughlin discuss Fountain’s decision not to join Louis Armstrong’s band 27:20 Laughlin explains how Fountain’s commercial success sometimes elides his musicianship 28:26 Harrell and Laughlin describe and share stories of how Fountain was most himself in his office after performing 31:11 Laughlin describes Fountain’s playing for the Pope 33:00 Harrell and Laughlin get into Fountain’s dedication to Mardi Gras 36:43 Laughlin and Harrell describe Fountain’s first gigs following heart surgery 39:34 Harrell describes Fountain’s last gig, at the 2013 Jazz Fest, where he was accompanied by his great-granddaughter Izzy 42:18 Harrell describes how Fountain kept his musicality even in hospice 42:59 Laughlin explains how Fountain picked keys according to register 43:14 Demonstration “A Closer Walk With Thee”
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- 2017 Charlie Gabriel
- Interviewer, Sally Young, 01:19 Charlie Gabriel speaks about his family’s background in New Orleans and his musical heritage 05:17 Gabriel explains his first job was a funeral, lists musicians he used to play with 05:57 Gabriel remembers Frog Joseph and Louis Cottrell 07:20 Gabriel speaks about his musical family: all his father’s sisters were musicians 09:06 Shannon Powell talks about how he and Gabriel used to busk by Jackson Square together when he was a teenager 10:24 Gabriel and Sally Young discuss some more of his family members 11:30 Gabriel discusses the musical differences between Detroit and New Orleans, Detroit being more focused on bebop. He explains that his church background and familiarity with hymns helped him get accustomed to bebop 13:17 Demonstration “A Closer Walk With Thee” 15:50 Demonstration “Sweet Georgia Brown” 16:30 Gabriel talks about the musicians he met and played with in Detroit, including those in the bands of Lionel Hampton, Aretha Franklin, and J.C. Heard 19:40 Gabriel discusses the fact that he has never made money any way but playing his horn 20:31 Gabriel gets into his time playing with a calypso band 22:28 Demonstration calypso 24:15 Demonstration calypso 25:18 Gabriel muses over his six years in Portland 26:59 Gabriel speaks on his time on tour with Aretha Franklin 27:55 Gabriel explains the events in Nice, on tour with Aretha Franklin, that made him decide to return to New Orleans 30:52 Gabriel discusses his cousin’s book My Daddy Plays Old Time New Orleans Jazz and how proud he is to be a member of one of New Orleans’ jazz families 32:02 Gabriel speaks on his collaborations with Marcus Belgrave, including their tribute to Louis Armstrong 34:11 Gabriel explains how his invitation from Ben Jaffe to come to Preservation Hall resulted in his marriage 35:39 Demonstration “Come With Me to New Orleans” 38:04 Gabriel discusses his encounters with Lester Young, and other greats he was fortunate enough to play with 40:52 Gabriel talks about habanero music and its role in the creation of jazz, and the importance of supporting and preserving jazz 45:04 Demonstration “Down By The Riverside”