Face the Music 8.15.13 – Birds!

Weather Bird

Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines 1928

Nashville Nightingale

Waring’s Pennsylvanians 1924

I’m a Little Blackbird, Looking for a Bluebird

Clarence Williams Blue Five 1924

vocal by Eva Taylor

Bye Bye Blackbird

Josephine Baker 1927

Bird of Paradise

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra 1935

Pigeon Walk

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra 1937

Ostrich Walk

Bix Beiderbecke with

Frankie Trumbauer’s Orchestra 1927

Loose Like a Goose

Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1929

Cuckoo Blues

Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1928

Wild Geese Blues

Gladys Bentley accompanied by Eddie Lang 1928

Chicken You Can Roost Behind the Moon

Frank Stokes 1927

As An Eagle Stirreth Up Her Nest

Calvin P Dixon aka “Black Billy Sunday” 1925

{the first African American preacher to record a sermon}

Under the Double Eagle

Wilbur de Paris c. 1955-1958

The Buzzard

Bud Freeman’s Windy City Five 1935

Chicken Rhythm

Slim Gaillard 1945

Chasin’ the Bird

Charlie Parker 1947

Oiseaux des Iles

Django Reinhardt 1940

Blue Bird

Charlie Parker 1947

Flirtibird

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1959