Face the Music 1.22.15


Wylie Avenue Blues
Albert Brunies & his
Halfway House Orchestra 1928

Bessemer Bound Blues
Ma Rainey & her Georgia Band
With Coleman Hawkins blowing bass sax 1925

Snag It
Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band 1955

Blue Drag
Django Reinhardt & Le Quintette
du Hot Club de France 1935

If Someone Would Only Love Me
Jelly Roll Morton & his Red Hot Peppers 1930

Wasted Life Blues
Bessie Smith with James P. Johnson 1929

Blues in Thirds
Sidney Bechet (clarinet) & his New Orleans Feetwarmers
with Rex Stewart, Earl Hines & Baby Dodds 1940

Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra 1931

Can't Be Bothered With No Sheik
Rosa Henderson with James P. Johnson 1931

Automobile Stomp
Clifford Hayes' Louisville Stompers
with Earl Hines 1929

Mean Dog Blues
Miff Mole's Molers
with Adrian Rollini blowing bass sax 1927

Night Life
Mary Lou Williams piano solo 1930

Solid Old Man
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra 1939

Rumba Negro
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
with William "Count" Basie 1929

"Life" Spears a Jitterbug
Bud Freeman & his Gang 1938

By the Waters of Minnetonka
John Kirby & his Onyx Club Boys 1938

Muskrat Ramble - with bongos!
Humphrey Lyttelton's Paseo Band 1953