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HARLEM TIMELINE - 4. PART 4 (320kbs-m4a/128mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 19th September 2017
Soweto Kinch concludes his personal journey to discover the story of Harlem, its music, politics and culture.
He meets record producer Paul Winley to discover how doo-wop became hip hop. Kurtis Blow and Zulu Jeff explain how hip hop spread to every corner of Harlem and Soweto also encounters break dancers and DJs.
Soweto sees that Harlem's cultural future is assured, with a visit to the National Jazz Museum in Harlem which conserves the rich musical legacy of the area. He also joins in a jam session at Bill's Place, a venue styled after the speakeasies of 1920s and 30s Harlem.
The journey ends at the marvellously preserved art deco Lenox Lounge, scene of many a recent movie, where jazz and blues remain a central part of Harlem's rich cultural atmosphere.
HARLEM TIMELINE - 3. PART 3 (320kbs-m4a/128mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 18th September 2017
Soweto Kinch continues his personal journey to discover the story of Harlem. Today he'll be be tracing what happened from the end of the 1940s to the 1970s, taking in the story of soul music, and the growth of doo wop, but also looking at the social problems of the 60s, when Harlem's name was synonymous with protests and violence.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 2009.
HARLEM TIMELINE - 2. PART 2 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 17th September 2017
In his second journey into Harlem's history, Soweto Kinch finds out about the rich gospel tradition, explores the art, music and poetry of the harlem Renaissance, and traces the story of jazz from swing to bebop. He visits the place where politician Marcus Garvey addressed the crowds from a soapbox, and finds out where African American thinker and reformer W. E. B DuBois lived and worked. He hears about the legendary Savoy Ballroom, and the late night clubs like Minton's and the Uptown House where Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie created a new style of jazz. Finally as the 1940s progress, rhythm and blues arrives on the scene and the everyday sound of Harlem is transformed.
First broadcast in on BBC Radio 2 in 2009.
Kurtis Blow - One Two Five (Main Street Harlem Usa) [Mercury]
Gregory Hopkins & Male Choir Of Convent Avenue Baptist Church - Highway To Heaven [AJB]
Paul Robeson - Scandalize My Name [Hiltongrove]
Gregory Hopkins & Male Choir Of Convent Avenue Baptist Church - Who Built The Ark [AJB]
Ice T - If We Must Die (Poem) [Rhino]
Branford Marsalis - The Weary Blues (Poem) [Rhino]
Willie “The Lion” Smith - Achin Hearted Blues [Charly]
LeVar Burton - The Damnation Of Women (Essay) [Rhino]
Chick Webb And His Orchestra - Stompin' At The Savoy [Hep]
Chick Webb - Darktown Strutters Ball [Hep]
Chick Webb & His Orch/Ella Fitzgerald - A Tisket A Tasket [Pulse]
Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald - I Was Doing All Right [Proper]
Al Cooper & Savoy Sultans - Second Balcony Jump [N/A]
Mills Blue Rhythm Band - The Growl [Chant Du Monde]
Roy Eldridge - Sittin' In [Proper]
Billy Eckstine And His Orchestra - Blowin' The Blues Away [Proper]
Sir Charles Thompson - Takin' Off [Delmark]
Dizzy Gillespie Quintet - Shaw Nuff [Proper]
Charlie Parker Plus Band - Just Friends [Verve]
Big Joe Turner - Sweeet Sixteen [JSP]
Gene Ammons - The Last Mile [Classics]
George Benson - Smokin' Cheeba Cheeba [Paul Winley]
George Benson - Sideman [Columbia]
George Benson - Hello Birdie [Columbia]
Ray Charles - What'd I Say [Atco]
HARLEM TIMELINE - 1. PART 1 (320kbs-m4a/128mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 16th September 2017
Soweto Kinch begins a four-part journey of discovery in Harlem, a few square miles in northern Manhattan which have given the world great musical riches.
He hears from Pulitzer Prize winning novelist David Levering Lewis (author of "When Harlem Was In Vogue") about the origins of the area and visits the site of the "Tree of Hope" where superstitious musicians have touched the bark to help launch their careers.
We hear about the unique Harlem Stride style of piano jazz; visit speakeasies and the site of the famous Lincoln Theatre (which is now an Episcopalian church); and journey to Sugar Hill, the home of the Harlem Renaissance movement which saw intellectuals produce some of the area's richest writing, poetry and painting.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 2009.
Kurtis Blow - One Two Five (Main Street Harlem USA) [Mercury]
Billy Eckstine - Love Is Just Around The Corner [Emarcy]
James Brown - Gonna Have A Funky Good Time [Charly/Atlas]
Eubie Blake - Charleston Rag [Classic Jazz/Charly]
Louis Armstrong - (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue [CBS]
Duke Ellington - Cotton Club Stomp / Misty Morning [Bluebird]
Baby Dee - Look What Baby's Got For You [Delmark]
Adelaide Hall & Bill Robinson & Duke Ellington - I Can't Give You Anything But Love [CBS]
Duke Ellington - Freeze And Melt [Bluebird]
Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher [Castle Communications]
Cab Calloway - Kicking The Gong Around [ASV Living Era]
Cab Calloway - Trickeration [JSP]
Fats Waller - Handful Of Keys [Properbox]
Scott Joplin - Elite Syncopations [Biograph]
Fats Waller - The Joint Is Jumpin' [Proper]
Fats Waller - Carolina Shout [Proper]
Butch Thompson - Maple Leaf Rag
Don Ewell & Willie “The Lion” Smith - I Found A New Baby [Delmark]
Fats Waller - Rusty Pail [Proper]
Gregory Hopkins & Male Choir Of Convent Avenue Baptist Church - Highway To Heaven [AJB]