Jazz Roots of R&B - S02E19

The jazz roots of rhythm and blues with music from r&b pioneers, the forgotten great jazz musicians of Motown, and the unlikely pairing of Latin jazz and r&b that created boogaloo music. We’ll talk with writer and producer Allan Slutsky about his 20 year long quest to give Motown’s studio band its due, chat with our resident jazz historian Lewis Porter about how boogie woogie led to r&b, and how Coltrane got his start playing with r&b bands.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Allan Slutsky, Lewis Porter

Music

• Marvin Gaye “Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing”
• Junior Walker & The All Stars “Shotgun”
• Ray Charles “Ain’t That Love”
• Big Joe Turner “Roll ‘Em Pete”
• Lionel Hampton “Vibe Boogie” 
• Louis Jordan “Every Man to His Own Profession” 
• Louis Jordan “Choo Choo Ch'Boogie”
• Big Joe Turner “Boogie Woogie Country Girl”
• John Coltrane “Slowtrane”
• Dizzy Gillespie “We Love to Boogie” 
• Mel Walker’s “Unlucky Man”
• John Coltrane “Mr. Day
• Earl Van Dyke & The Soul Brothers “I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)”
• The Temptations “My Girl”
• The Funk Brothers and Joan Osborne “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted”
• The Marvelettes “Please Mr. Postman”
• Joe Cuba & Cheo Feliciano “El Pito (I’ll Never Go Back To Georgia)”
• Joe Cuba “Bang! Bang!”
• Ray Barretto “El Watusi”
• Pete Rodriguez “I Like It Like That”

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts by Erik Saras

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

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