Face the Music 10.23.14

"Seventeen Shades of Blues"

Black Gal Make It Thunder

Jimmy Blythe player piano roll

King of the Zulus Blues

Richard M. Jones player piano roll 1927

Bull Frog Moan

Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang

{billed as Blind Willie Dunn} 1929

Bull Frog Blues

Charles Pierce Orchestra 1928

Kazoo Moan

Washboard Serenaders 1930

Buddy Bolden’s Blues

Jelly Roll Morton 1939

West End Blues

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five 1928

Blues

Fats Waller, Bunny Berigan & Tommy Dorsey

 in a “Jam Session at Victor” 1937

Blues in the Cave

Sidney Bechet in Paris 1951

A Blues Serenade

Original Memphis Five 1926

Firehouse Blues

Mound City Blue Blowers 1929

Minglewood Blues

Cannon’s Jug Stompers 1928

Meningitis Blues

Memphis Minnie

with the Memphis Jug Band 1930

El Ritmo

Little Brother Montgomery Quintet 1947

{featuring legendary New Orleans trumpeter Lee Collins}

Mule Face Blues

Little Brother Montgomery piano solo 1954

Countless Blues

Kansas City Six 1938

{saxophonist Lester Young plays clarinet}

Blues in the Night

Mose Allison 1970

{unusual example of Mose backed by a big band}