Monday, July 27, 2015

Face the Music 7.30.15
For Hazen & Crippen II

Rhythm King
Bix Beiderbecke & his Gang 1928

Thou Swell
Bix Beiderbecke & his Gang 1928

I Never Miss the Sunshine
Benson Orchestra of Chicago 1923

I Didn’t Know
Bix Beiderbecke
with the Jean Goldkette Orchestra 1924

Dardanella
Bix Beiderbecke with
Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra 1928

Glad Rag Doll
Russ Columbo with
Gus Arnheim & his Orchestra 1929

Crazy Quilt {No.1}
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra 1931

Craze-O-Logy
Bud Freeman & his Orchestra 1928

You Took Advantage of Me
Bud Freeman Trio 1938

My Wild Irish Rose
Ben Pollack & his Pick-a-Rib Boys 1937

Walkin’ the Dog
Eddie Lang & his Orchestra 1929

Keep Your Undershirt On
Ben Pollack & his Park Central Orchestra 1929

Everybody Loves My Baby
Pee Wee, Zutty & James P. 1938

I Got Rhythm
Dick Hyman, Tom Pletcher & Their Gang 2003

I Need Some Pettin’
Bix Centennial All-Stars 2003

Viper Mad
Alex Belhaj’s Crescent City Quartet 2013


Tuesday, July 21, 2015


Face the Music 7.23.15
For Hazen Schumacher

Farewell Blues
Friars Society Orchestra 1922

Bluin’ the Blues
Original Dixieland Jazz Band 1918

Look At ‘Em Doing It
Original Dixieland Jazz Band 1919

Discontented Blues
Friars Society Orchestra 1922

Jazz Me Blues
Wolverine Orchestra 1924

Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble
New Orleans Rhythm Kings 1923

Royal Garden Blues
Wolverine Orchestra 1924

Original Dixieland One-Step
Miff Mole’s Molers 1927

Fireworks
Original Memphis Five 1928

Bull Frog Blues
Charles Pierce Orchestra 1928

Ostrich Walk
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra 1927

Three Blind Mice
The Chicago Loopers 1927

Wabash Blues
Ted Lewis Jazz Band 1929

Indiana
Red Nichols & his Five Pennies 1929

Trumbology
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra 1927

Clarinetitis
Benny Goodman Trio 1928

Mama’s Gone, Goodbye
Thelma Terry & her Playboys 1928







Monday, July 13, 2015


photo by Peter Yates

Face the Music 7.16.15

Cocktails for Two
Jonathan & Darlene Edwards 1957

Steak and Potatoes
Willie Bryant & his Orchestra 1935

Aunt Jemima Stomp
Kansas City Tin Roof Stompers 1929

Hurricane
Red & Miff’s Stompers 1926

18th Street Strut
Five Musical Blackbirds 1926

Bow Wow Blues
California Ramblers 1922

Aunt Hagar’s Blues
Lanin’s Southern Serenaders 1921
…with Jimmy Durante at the piano

Does My Sweetie Do - And How
Waring’s Pennsylvanians 1925

No Parking
B.A.Rolfe
& his Palais d’Or Orchestra 1928

Fight That Thing
Reb Spikes Majors & Minors 1927

Horsey Keep Your Tail Up
Fred “Schnickelfritz” Fischer 1939

Military Mike
Original Memphis Five 1925

Sunshine
Ikey Robinson
& his Kansas City Five 1935

Watching the Clouds Roll By
Cliquot Club Eskimos 1928

Stuff
Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders 1929

When the War Breaks Out in Mexico,
I’m Going to Go to Montreal
Jerry Colonna
& his Dixieland Band – late 1950s

The Eel
Tenor saxophonist Bud Freeman
with the Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band 1971








Tuesday, July 7, 2015


Face the Music 7.07.15
Mostly California Ramblers

Miss Annabelle Lee
California Ramblers 1927

Up And At ‘Em
California Ramblers 1926

Manhattan
California Ramblers 1925

When Erastus Plays His Old Kazoo
California Ramblers 1927

When the Moon Shines on Coral Gables
California Ramblers 1925

Blue River
California Ramblers 1927

Stockholm Stomp
California Ramblers 1926

Oh! Mabel
California Ramblers 1925

State and Madison
California Ramblers 1927

Broken Idol
California Ramblers 1929

Masculine Women! Feminine Men!
Merritt Brunies Friars Inn Orchestra 1926

Sweet Man
California Ramblers 1925

‘Cause I Feel Low Down
California Ramblers 1928

Keep Smiling At Trouble
California Ramblers 1925

Glad Rag Doll
California Ramblers 1928