Saturday, March 7, 2020


Face the Music 3.12.20: Hawk’s Variations

St. Louis Shuffle - Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1927
Darktown Strutters Ball - Mound City Blue Blowers 1931
Bessemer Bound Blues - Ma Rainey & her Georgia Band 1926
Poor Richard - Jack Purvis & his Orchestra 1930 
Dark Clouds - Hawkins & Allen Orchestra 1933
Heartbreak Blues - Coleman Hawkins Orchestra 1933 
Queer Notions - Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1933
Lady Be Good - Coleman Hawkins with Stanley Black Trio 1934
Honeysuckle Rose - Coleman Hawkins & his All Star Jam Band 1937
Bouncing with Bean - Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra 1939
Dinah - Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra 1939
Feedin’ the Bean - Count Basie & his Orchestra 1941
The Man I Love - Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra 1943
Hawk’s Variations - Coleman Hawkins unaccompanied 1945
I Mean You - Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra 1946






Saturday, February 29, 2020


Face the Music 3.05.20 
Duke Ellington - Pigmentations {1927-1967}

Black Beauty {1928}
Black & Tan Fantasy {1927}
Yellow Dog Blues {1928}
Brown Berries {1927}
Blue Bubbles {1927}
Mood Indigo {1930}
Diminuendo in Blue {1937}
Crescendo in Blue {1937}
Work Song: Black {1944}
Ridin’ on a Blue Note {1940}
Blue Goose {1940}
Blue Serge {1941}
Blue Cellophane {1944}
My Little Brown Book {1967}
December Blue {1953}
Blue Bird of Delhi: Mynah {1966}


Sunday, February 23, 2020


Face the Music 2.27.20
Black is Beautiful

African Ripples
Fats Waller

Ripples of the Nile
Tom Roberts plays Luckey Roberts

Sweet Like a Honey Bee
Wilmoth Houdini

Shango {Cocoa Lute}
recorded in Granada

African Love Call
The Devil Behind Me
Wilmoth Houdini

Egyptian Fantasy
Sidney Bechet

La Plus Belle Africaine
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra

Afrique
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra

Fleurette Africane
Ellington-Mingus-Roach

Algerian Cynicism
Kenny Clarke

Cleopatra Rumba
Machito & his Afro-Cubans


A Night in Tunisia
Dizzy Gillespie

Sahara Heat
Illinois Jacquet




Friday, February 7, 2020


Face the Music 2.13.20 - Weasel Walk
Bop & R&B tenor saxophonists 1946-48

Fly Mister Fly
Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1946

Jam for Sam
Tom Archia & his All Stars 1947

Wilma’s Idea
Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1946

Macomba Jump
Tom Archia & his All Stars 1947

Out of the Night
Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1946

Slumber {Blues at Twilight}
Tom Archia & his All Stars 1947

Lowe Groovin’
Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Hey Tom Archia
Tom Archia & his All Stars 1948

Jump with Me
Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

McKie’s Jam for Boppers
Tom Archia & his All Stars 1948

Mad Moon
Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Come Back to Sorrento
Tom Archia & his All Stars 1948

Easy Riff
Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Bronzeville Swing
Tom Archia & his All Stars 1948

The Spider
Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Bottletop
Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Downfall Blues {Whiskey}
Tom Archia & his All Stars 1947

Weasel Walk
Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1948

The Battle
Tom Archia & his All Stars with Gene Ammons 1948











Saturday, February 1, 2020


Face the Music 2.06.20
Cornet Chop Suey

Cornet Chop Suey
Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five 1926

King Porter
Joe Oliver & Jelly Roll Morton 1924

Play That Thing
Tommy Ladnier with Ollie Powers’ Harmony Syncopators 1923

Stock Yards Strut
Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals 1926

Dunn’s Cornet Blues
Johnny Dunn Trio 1924

Squeeze Me
Willie Hightower with Lottie Hightower’s Nighthawks 1927

Baby Doll
Joe Smith with Bessie Smith 1926

Georgia Grind
Thomas Morris & his Seven Hot Babies 1927

That’s No Bargain
Red Nichols & his Five Pennies 1926

Davenport Blues
Bix & his Rhythm Jugglers 1925

Singin’ the Blues
Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer 1927

Relaxin’ at the Touro {take two}
Muggsy Spanier 1939

Ja-Da
Bobby Hackett with Eddie Condon’s Windy City Seven 1938

Poor Bubber
Rex Stewart & his Orchestra 1941

Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me/Dr. Jazz
Anthony Braxton/Stewart Gillmor Duo 1993

Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
Wild Bill Davison & his Commodores 1946






Saturday, January 25, 2020

Face the Music 1.30.20
Tuba Wrestlers of the 1920s: Third Throwdown


Birmingham Breakdown
Mack Shaw with Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra 1926


Immigration Blues
Mack Shaw with Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra 1926


Flock O’Blues
Min Leibrook with Bix Beiderbeck’s Sioux City Six 1924


Big Boy Blues
Unknown tuba wrestler with Ma Rainey 1927


Foolish Man Blues
June Cole with Bessie Smith 1927


Organ Grinder Blues
Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1928


Bass Ale Blues
Joe Tarto with the Hottentotts
{Red Nichols’ Five Pennies on the Vocalion label} 1926


Jingles
Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1927


Willie the Weeper
Bill Newton with Doc Cook & his 14 Doctors of Syncopation 1927


New St.Louis Blues
Chet Harding with Devine’s Wisconsin Roof Orchestra 1927


Swamp Blues
June Cole with Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra 1927


Kansas City Breakdown
Vernon Page with Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1928


Springfield Stomp
Mack Walker with Cecil Scott & his Bright Boys 1929


I Must Have That Man
Joe Tarto with Joe Venuti’s New Yorkers 1928


Squeeze Me
Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1928


Freeze Out
Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1928


Shake ‘Em Up
Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1927

Saturday, January 18, 2020



Face the Music 1.23.20
Tuba Wrestlers of the 1920s - Second Wrangle

East St. Louis Toodle-oo
Mack Shaw with Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra 1926

Devil’s Serenade
Herman Hoy with Sonny Clay & his Orchestra 1928

Copenhagen
Min Leibrook with Bix Beiderbecke & the Wolverines 1924

Prince of Wails
Louis Chassagne with The Cotton Pickers 1924

Nervous Tension
Milt Hinton with Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1930

Georgia Swing
Bill Benford with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1928

Load of Cole
Billy Taylor & Cozy Cole with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1930

Red Hot Pepper
William Bass Moore with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1928

In a Corner
Mack Walker with Cecil Scott & his Bright Boys 1929

Bass Blues
Unidentified tuba wrestler with Ezra Buzzington’s Rustic Revelers 1928

Paradise Wobble
Cyrus St.Clair with Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Orchestra 1927

Pigs Feet and Slaw
Cyrus St. Clair with Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1929

Cho-King
Bert Holliday with Sonny Clay & the Dixie Serenaders 1931

Bombay
Cyrus St. Clair with Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1929

Alligator Crawl
Bill Newton with Doc Cook & his Fourteen Doctors of Syncopation 1927

Fourth Avenue Stomp
Ivory Johnson with Frank Bunch & his Fuzzy Wuzzies 1927

Here Comes the Hot Tamale Man
Rudolph ‘Sudie’ Reynaud with Cook’s Dreamland Orchestra 1926

Oh Baby
Min Leibrook with Bix Beiderbecke & the Wolverines 1924