Face the Music

potentials & probabilities

for broadcast of 1.17.13

Savoy Blues

Kid Ory’s Creole Jazz Band 1954

West End Blues

King Oliver & his Orchestra 1929

Yellow Dog Blues

Bessie Smith with Henderson’s Hot Six 1925

What Is This Thing Called Love?

James P. Johnson piano solo 1930

Singin’ the Blues

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra 1931

Undecided

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

Billie Holiday with Frankie Newton’s Orchestra 1939

I Don’t Believe It

Bud Freeman Trio 1938

That’s The Blues Old Man

Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra 1940

Body and Soul

Lester Young Trio 1942

Body and Soul

James Moody and his band

with trumpeter Johnny Coles 1956

Miss Thing {parts 1 & 2}

Count Basie & his Orchestra 1939

Out With the Wrong Woman

Washboard Sam & his Washboard Band 1936

Blue ‘n’ Boogie

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945

Frenesi

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1941