Surveyin' the Blues

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Surveyin' the Blues

Savoy Blues

Kid Ory’s Creole Jazz Band 1954

Numb Fumblin’

Fats Waller piano solo 1929

Poor Bubber

Rex Stewart & his Orchestra 1941

Poor Richard

Jack Purvis & his Orchestra 1930

Dead Man’s Blues

Jelly Roll Morton & his Red Hot Peppers 1926

Black & Tan Fantasy

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1928

Keeps on A-Rainin’ (Papa He Can’t Make No Time)

Bessie Smith 1923

Mamie’s Blues

Jelly Roll Morton 1939

See See Rider Blues

Ma Rainey & her Georgia Jazz Band 1924

‘Til Times Get Better

Jabbo Smith & his Rhythm Aces 1929

Suspension Blues

Vic Dickenson 1954

I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

Billie Holiday with Frankie Newton’s Orchestra 1939

Jazz Me Blues

Lester Young with Gene Hardman’s Hammond Five 1939

Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me

Sidney Bechet & his Hot Six 1951

including Sidney DeParis, Jimmy Archey & Pops Foster

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That’s Your Yass, Yass, Yass

Clarence “Jelly” Johnson player piano roll

Papa Better Watch Your Step

Fats Waller player piano roll 1923

You Can’t Do What My Last Man Did

James P Johnson piano solo 1923

New Orleans Hop Scop Blues

Clarence Williams Blue Five

featuring Sidney Bechet 1923

Mamanita

Jelly Roll Morton piano solo

Library of Congress session 1938

Blue, Turning Grey Over You

James P Johnson

with drummer Eddie Dougherty 1944

I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart

Hot Lips Page & his Band 1938

Thou Swell

Bix Beiderbecke & his Gang 1928

The First Time I Saw You

Henry Jacques

& his Correct Tempo Dance Orchestra 1937

I’m in the Mood for Love

Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra 1935

Hocus Pocus

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra 1934

East St. Louis Toodle-oo

Duke Ellington

& his Kentucky Club Orchestra 1926

Shout ‘Em Aunt Tillie

Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Orchestra 1930

Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble

Zutty Singleton & his Orchestra

front line: Henry Red Allen

Benny Morton & Edmond Hall 1940

When Erastus Plays his Old Kazoo

Johnny Dodds’ Black Bottom Stompers 1927

I’ve Found a New Baby

Andy Preer & the Cotton Club Orchestra 1927

Bugle Call Rag

Cab Calloway & his Orchestra 1931

Snake Eyes

Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1928

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Honeysuckle Rose

“Jam Session at Victor”

with Fats Waller, Bunny Berigan

& Tommy Dorsey 1937

There’ll Come a Time (Just Wait and See)

Frankie Trumbauer’s Orchestra

featuring Bix Beiderbecke 1928

Alligator Crawl

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven 1927

Doggin’ the Dog

Big Joe Turner with

Willie the Lion Smith 1940

Harlem Strut

James P Johnson piano solo 1921

Tiger Rag – The Quadrille

Jelly Roll Morton’s extended analysis

& live demonstration

for the Library of Congress 1938

Don’t Drink It In Here

Frankie Half Pint Jaxon

with Bill Johnson’s Louisiana Jug Band 1929

Jazz Battle

Jabbo Smith’s Rhythm Aces 1929

Everybody Loves My Baby

The Boswell Sisters

with Bunny Berigan 1932

He Ain’t Got Rhythm

Billie Holiday & Lester Young

with Teddy Wilson’s Orchestra 1937

I Got Rhythm

Dick Hyman, Tom Pletcher

& their Gang 2003

Ain’t Misbehavin’

Moppin’ and Boppin’

Fats Waller & Zutty Singleton’s band

billed as The Beale Street Boys

from the soundtrack of the motion picture

Stormy Weather {1943}

Victory Stride

James P Johnson’s Blue Note Jazzmen 1944

Onyx Hop
Frankie Newton's Uptown Serenaders 1937

Save the Roach for Me
Buck Washington 1944

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Face the Music 9.11.14

The very latest postulates in
Postmodern Fats Waller Theory:

Arkansas Blues

James P. Johnson player piano roll 1921

Got To Cool My Doggies Now

Fats Waller player piano roll 1923

Got To Cool My Doggies Now

The Cotton Pickers 1922

“I used to just play the piano…”

Prohibition – Paseo

Lionel Belasco

1961 {voice}

1920 {orchestra}

La Cucaracha
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra 1935

A-Flat Dream

{composed by James P. Johnson}

Ralph Sutton with George Wettling 1949

Beale Street Blues

Alberta Hunter

accompanied on the pipe organ

by Fats Waller 1927

Rocky Mountain Blues

Harlem Footwarmers 1929

Cotton Club Stomp

Duke Ellington & his

Cotton Club Orchestra 1929

St. Louis Blues

Cab Calloway & his Orchestra 1930

Alligator Crawl

{composed by Fats Waller}

Ralph Sutton Trio 1951

Choo Choo

{composed by Fats Waller}

Gene Sedric & his Honey Bears 1938

Light Up

Buster Bailey’s Rhythm Busters 1938

Dinah

Pee Wee Russell’s Rhythmakers 1938

At the Ball

James P. Johnson’s Blue Note Jazzmen 1944

After You’ve Gone

James P. Johnson’s Blue Note Jazzmen 1944

Mr. Haydn Gets Hip
John Kirby Sextet 1941

Skull Duggery

Hot Lips Page & his Band 1938

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Postmodern Fats Waller Theory II

Runnin’ Wild Medley

James P Johnson player piano roll

Do It Mr. So-and-So

Fats Waller player piano roll 1924

I’m More Than Satisfied

Original Memphis Five 1928

Shy and Sly

Luckey Roberts piano solo 1946

Choo Choo

The Washingtonians 1924

Crazy Blues

Eubie Blake player piano roll

I’ve Got the Joogie Blues

Maude Mills

accompanied by Fats Waller 1927

If You Don’t, I Know Who Will

Bessie Smith

accompanied by Fletcher Henderson 1923

Bright Boy Blues

Cecil Scott & his Bright Boys 1929

Jungle Jambouree

Duke Ellington’s Harlem Footwarmers 1929

Ain’t Misbehavin’

Bill Bojangles Robinson with

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1929

By the Waters of Minnetonka

Zez Confrey player piano roll 1927

Go Away Gal

Lionel Belasco

West Indian player piano roll! 1922

Rippling Waters

Willie the Lion Smith piano solo 1939

Streamline Gal

Willie the Lion Smith & his Cubs 1935

Reefer Man

Cab Calloway & his Orchestra 1932