#1162 Encore Broadcast First Aired 3.5.16

This encore edition of Hg opens with:

1. Kiran Ahluwalia ‘Vo Kuch’ Cmpl Tk 9 3:09

Kiran Ahluwalia is an Indo-Canadian singer who arranges for performance ancient Persian and Punjabi Ghazals. Ahluwalia won the ‘Newcomer’ category in the inaugural Songlines Music Awards (2009), organized by the UK-based magazine, Songlines. Vo Kuch is a song about passion and un-requited love with gripped emotions, thoughts on the path of love, through the song Vo Kuch.
India, Putumayo World Music, 2009

2. Rokia Traoré ‘Kènya’ Alb Tk 3 5.17

Mali’s Rokia Traoré, known for singing of the riches of Congo-Zaire, Nigeria, and Mali, has a new release out, titled, Nay-sew. It includes the track, Kenya, a call for women to employ reason for their aims in life, your mouth gives meaning to words. Né so, Nonesuch Records, 2016

3. Mario Bauza ‘Bolero’ Cmpl Tk 3 3.47
Widely recognized as a seminal figure in American music Mario Bow-ZAH pioneered the fusion of Afro Cuban and jass music in the 1940’s, collaborating with musical giants such as Cab Calloway, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker and Machito. Bauza is credited with having introduced us to the mambo, cha-cha-cha and rhumba in North American. The late bandleader led one of the most sophisticated Latin Jazz Ensembles of the present era because of charts like Bolero. One World: Music From Around The World, Rounder, 1994

4. Louis Armstrong ‘Tin Roof Blues’ Alb Tk 7 2:59

Trumpet Virtuoso Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Armstrong was the first important soloist to emerge in jazz, enroute to becoming the most influential musician in the genre’s history. New Orleans, Putumayo World Music, 2005

5. Bombay Jayashri ‘Zara Zara’ Cmpl Tk 1 4.57
“Bombay” Jaya-shree is an Indian Carnatic music vocalist and music composer. With the support of an insistent flute solo, Jaya-Shree sings a song of love, fill me in your arms of love. India, Putumayo, 2009
6. Rico ‘Midnight in Ethiopia’ Cmpl Tk 4 4.42
Rico Rodriguez of Kingston, Jamaica is a ska and reggae trombonist featured here on Midnight In Ethiopia. Jamaica, Putumayo, 2001