Face the Music 9/25/14

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