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Clarinet Marmalade

Wild Bill Davison & his Commodores 1943

Hot Waters Blues

Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1928

Lookie Lookie Lookie, Here Comes Cookie

Teddy Hill & his Orchestra 1935

Hot Platter

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra 1939

Fish for Supper                                     

Hot Lips Page & his band 1944

“Bean” at the Met

Coleman Hawkins Quintet 1944

Hard Tack

Ike Quebec Swingtet 1944

Hot Biscuits

Jay McShann Septet 1948

Nuts

Roy Eldridge Quartet 1950

Big Butter & Egg Man

Wild Bill Davison & his Commodores 1945

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7-8 PM February 28, 2013

Again, as many saxophonists as will fit into the hour

San

Frankie Trumbauer with the Mound City Blue Blowers 1924

Terrific Stomp

Jack Washington with Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1929

Well All Right Then

Coleman Hawkins Trio 1937

I Got Rhythm

Bud Freeman Trio 1938

Sittin’ In

Chu Berry’s Little Jazz Ensemble 1938

No Soap (A Jitterbug Jamboree)

Julian Dash with Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra 1939

Stompy Jones

Sidney Bechet’s New Orleans Feetwarmers 1940

I’ve Found a New Baby

Charlie Parker with Jay McShann’s Orchestra 1941

Afternoon of a Basie-ite

Lester Young Quartet 1943

Blooey

Earl Bostic, Don Byas, Ike Quebec & Ben Webster

with Hot Lips Page & his Band 1944

Louise

Coleman Hawkins & his Sax Ensemble 1944

Honeysuckle Rose

Ben Webster Quartet 1944

Basement Blues

Carl Wolfe Band plays W.C. Handy

I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’

bass saxophonist Vince Giordano with

Dick Hyman & Tom Pletcher 2003

On the Alamo

baritone saxophonist Bill Miles with

Wild Bill Davison & his Commodores 1945

St. Louis Blues

Gene Ammons with Albert Ammons Rhythm Kings 1947

Two Left Feet

Buddy Tate with Skip Hall’s Band 1945

Diggin’ the Count

Illinois Jacquet on Apollo records 1947

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7 PM Thursday February 21^st 2013

as many saxophonists as will fit into the hour

Shake It and Break It

Sidney Bechet & his New Orleans Feetwarmers 1940

Bouncing Around

Sam Morgan’s Jazz Band 1927

Trumbology

Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra 1927

Swingin’ Without Mezz

Bud Freeman Trio 1938

Honeysuckle Rose

Coleman Hawkins & his All Star Jam Band 1937

Don’t Get Tired

Alix Combelle et son Orchestre 1938

Squatty Roo

Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra 1941

Bootin’ and Swinging

Gene “Honeybear” Sedric & his Orchestra 1946

Warmin’ Up

Leon “Chu” Berry with Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra 1936

Oh! Lady Be Good

Lester Young with a small group led by Count Basie 1936

Texas Shuffle

Herschel Evans with Count Basie & his Orchestra 1938

Cottontail

Ben Webster with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1940

It’s Only a Paper Moon

Lester Young Septet 1946

Takin’ Off

Charlie Parker with Sir Charles Thompson’s All Stars 1945

Jim Dawgs

Ike Quebec All-Stars 1945

Be-Bop

Don Byas with Dizzy Gillespie’s Sextet 1945

Hiroshima

Gene Ammons with Albert Ammons’ Rhythm Kings 1947

Jumpin’ at the Woodside

Leo Parker with Illinois Jacquet & band 1947

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blue black bottom

fats waller 1929

mama don’t allow

washboard sam 1935

do it sloppy

sylvester palmer 1929

i’m somebody’s somebody now

annette hanshaw 1927

spirit of ’49 rag

george h tremer 1927

yaaka hula hickey dula

ciro’s club coon orchestra 1916

raggin’ the scale

venuti-lang blue five 1933

light up

buster bailey’s rhythm busters 1938

trompeau

marten altena ensemble - 14^th century/1995

ostrich walk

irving fazola’s dixielanders 1945

about face

the three deuces 1941

my honey’s lovin’ arms

bud freeman trio 1938

a good man is hard to find

kid ory’s creole jazz band 1954

peg o’ my heart

red nichols & his five pennies 1929

thou swell

tut soper & baby dodds 1944

oh sister ain’t that hot

jimmie noone’s apex club oerchestra 1928

carolina balmoral

james p johnson 1943

muskrat ramble

bud freeman’s famous chicagoans 1940

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Turn on the Heat

Fats Waller piano solo 1929

In a Corner

Cecil Scott & his Bright Boys 1929

Play That Thing

Ollie Powers’ Harmony Syncopators 1923

Four or Five Times

Monarch Jazz Quartet of Norfolk 1929

‘Tain’t What You Do But How You Do It

Papa Charlie Jackson 1929

Penn Beach Blues

Joe Venuti’s Blue Four 1927

Sitting on a Curbstone Blues

Piron’s New Orleans Orchestra 1924

Valse Boston

Joan Sawyer’s Persian Garden Orchestra 1914

Sweet Alberta

Charlie McCoy & the Jackson Blue Boys

Recorded in New Orleans 1928

Muggles

Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra 1928

Some Do and Some Don’t

State Street Ramblers 1928

Why Did You Do That To Me?

Washboard Sam 1940

Careless Love {test pressing}

Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong,

Fred Longshaw & Big Charlie Green 1925

If You Take Me Back

Big Joe & his Washboard Band 1940

It’s a Ramble

Tut Soper & Baby Dodds 1944

Give Us Another Jug

Piano Kid Edwards piano solo 1930

Twenty First Street Stomp

Ike Rodgers with Henry Brown 1929

Improvisations on Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie

James P. Johnson piano solo 1943

Here's a nice example of Duke Ellington's transcription recordings from 1941:

http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/4743912/a/Take+the+%27A%27+Train%3A+The+Legendary+Blanton-Webster+Transcriptions,+1941.htm

Another hugely important transcription entity was the World Broadcasting Service, for which Ellington, (and others including Miff Mole's dixieland jam band) cut a series of outstanding sides in the early 40s. These were issued to the public years later by the Circle label:

http://www.amazon.com/Ellington-Orchestra-World-Broadcasting-Series/dp/B006QKZPRG

Muzak was one of many transcription services for which musicians--many
of them now regarded as legendary jazz artists--regularly cut
recordings that weren't peddled to the public in stores. The only time
anyone heard these sides (which often exceeded the 3.5 minute
limitations of the ten inch 78 rpm record) was when they were aired
over radio waves as filler. Transcription recordings by Duke
Ellington, Claude Thornhill and dozens more have been reissued and
often represent some of the best material we have from that period
(30s&  40s). I believe this was largely due to the fact that the A&R
directors usually associated with commercial recording sessions were
absent or "defanged" for the transcription sessions, which weren't
geared towards selling units in stores. Interesting, huh. Check this
out:

http://www.muzakblog.com/new/fats-wallers-session-1935/

Jazz, dance band and pop artists whose transcription recordings have
been reissued by the amazing Hep Jazz label include

Boyd Raeburn, Gene Krupa, Sam Donahue, the Pied Pipers, Stan Kenton,
Billy Butterfield and Artie Shaw.

http://www.counterpoint-music.com/Catalogues/Jazz/jazz.w/fats/fats7.gif

This JZCL compilation (a double CD not to be confused with a similarly
packaged sampler released by Stash records) contains what I believe
are all of Fats Waller's Muzak recordings from 1935 and 1939. The best
moments (in addition to certain group jams from '39) are the piano
solos, which underline perhaps the most important and least recognized
aspect of Thomas Waller--his subtlety. Not to downplay the majesty of
full-throttle swing! For rowdier current try "Nagasaki" and "The Moon
is Low".