Face the Music 4.03.14

Questionable Content, Part I

How Ya Baby?

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1937

Are You Sticking?

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra

featuring clarinetist Barney Bigard 1941

Can’t We Be Friends?

Muggsy Spanier & his Orchestra 1942

What’s the Use?

Bud Freeman & his Gang 1938

How Can I?

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1937

Where or When?

Benny Goodman Trio

featuring Peggy Lee 1941

Why Did You Do That To Me?

Washboard Sam 1940

What You Want Me To Do?
King Oliver & his Orchestra 1929

Where Did You Stay Last Night?

King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band 1923

Who’s Dis Heah Stranger?

Thomas Morris Orchestra 1926

What’s That Thing?

Jeanette’s Synco Jazzers 1927

What’s the Matter?

Memphis Jug Band 1929

Granny Will Your Dog Bite?

Othar Turner, Napoleon Strickland

& R.L. Boyce 1970

What You Gonna Do?

Old Ced Odom

& Lil Diamonds Hardaway 1936

Why?

Jelly Roll Morton’s Hot Six 1940

Can You Take It?

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1933

Who?
Joe Daniels & his Hot Shots 1936

What’s the Matter Now?

Rubberlegs Williams with

Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker 1945

What’s This?

Illinois Jacquet 1945

Face the Music 3.27.14: Nineteen Short Films

Program inspired by the 52^nd Ann Arbor Film Festival

By the Waters of Minnetonka

Zez Confrey player piano roll 1927

Rosa Mia

Adalbert Lutter Tango Orchestra 1934

Tambourine Song

Morton Gould Orchestra 1960

Dance of the Octopus

Red Norvo marimba

Benny Goodman bass clarinet

Dick McDonough guitar

Artie Bernstein string bass 1933

Egyptia {intermezzo}

Heliotrope Ragtime Orchestra

Japanese Sandman

Edgar Jackson’s Dance Orchestra 1932

Asleep in the Deep {parody}

Al Jolson 1911

Advertising Plant’s Baking Powder

George Graham 1896

Fragment of St. Hubert Mass

Hunting Horns 1899

Deep Blue Sea

Royal Bucks Hussars Band 1899

Teapot Dome Blues

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1923

Blue River

Bix Beiderbecke

with Frankie Trumbauer’s Orchestra 1927

My Baby Doesn’t Squawk

Thomas Morris & Joe Nanton

With the New Orleans Blue Five 1926

Cymbals, Cow Bell & Ratchet

Warren Baby Dodds 1944

Talking and Piano Experiment

Jimmy Yancey & Clarence Lofton 1943

Loose Wig

Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra 1944

The Way You Look Tonight

Earl Bostic 1959

A New Pair of Shoes

Ned Sublette & the Persuasions

Hungarian Rock

by Gyorgy Ligeti

arranged for barrel organ by Pierre Charial

Big thanks to Weston Hughes
for presenting a beautiful version
of this program last week while I recovered
from a pulled back muscle garnished
with an attack of the gout.

This week's list of potentials & probabilities:

Face the Music 3.20.14

Boogie Woogie

King Oliver & his Orchestra 1930

Endurance Stomp

State Street Ramblers 1928

What’s the Matter Now?

Charles “Bozo” Nickerson 1930

Nobody Knows You

When You’re Down and Out

Clarence “Pinetop” Smith 1929

Unemployment Stomp

Big Bill Broonzy 1938

Daddy What You Done To Me

Coot Grant & Socks Wilson 1933

Newport Blues

Cincinnati Jug Band 1929

Cocaine

Dick Justice 1929

Lock and Key

Bessie Smith

with James P. Johnson 1927

Greenville Strut

Mississippi Sarah Watson

& Daddy Stovepipe 1931

Shake Your Shimmy

The Midnight Rounders

with Jimmy Blythe &

Frankie Half Pint Jaxon 1928

Everybody Loves My Baby

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra

with Louis Armstrong 1924

Yaaka Hoola Hickey Doola

Al Jolson 1916

That Thing Called Love

{written by Perry Bradford}

Zez Confrey piano roll 1919

Rippling Waters

Willie the Lion Smith 1939

Dardanella

Art Tatum 1949

Cow Cow Blues

Meade Lux Lewis

private live recording

California, late 1940s

Weary Blues

Alex Belhaj’s Crescent City Quartet 2013

Face the Music 3/06/14

Memphis Rag

performed by a trumpet/piano duo

identified only as “Hot and Heavy” 1926

Just Hot

The Cotton Pickers 1923

Sizzlin’ the Blues

Monk Hazel & his Bienville Roof Orchestra 1928

Sizzling One-Step Medley

Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra

vocals by Johnny Mercer & the Night-Caps 1932

A Hot Time in Town – Medley

Harry Roy, “King of Hot-Cha” & his Orchestra 1933

Hot Toddy

Cab Calloway & his Orchestra 1932

Professor Hot Stuff

Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1930

Hot Town

Fess Williams’ Royal Flush Orchestra 1929

Hot-Cha-Razz-Ma-Tazz

Cab Calloway & his Orchestra 1934

Oh! Sister, Ain’t That Hot?

Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra 1928

Sweet and Hot

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra 1931

Turn On the Heat

Eva Taylor with the Charleston Chasers 1929

Sophie Tucker School for Red Hot Mamas

Sophie Tucker 1954

Turn On the Heath

Ted Heath & his Orchestra 1947

Hot House

Wardell Gray 1947