Face the Music 10.01.15: Fifth Fives

Cow Cow Blues

Cow Cow Davenport player piano roll 1925

Ninth Street Stomp

Bernice Edwards with

Black Boy Shine & Howling Smith 1935

St. Louis Blues

James P. Johnson piano solo 1945

I Ain’t Got Nobody

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

Honeysuckle Rose

Red Norvo & his Swing Octet 1935

Got a Bran’ New Suit

Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra 1935

Avalon

Coleman Hawkins

avec Michel Warlop et son Orchestre 1935

Swanee River

Quintette du Hot Club de France 1935

In Harlem’s Araby

The Good Time Band 1925

Squeeze Me

Buster Bailey

with Buddy Christian & Clarence Todd 1925

Buzz Me

Sippie Wallace

with Albert Ammons & his Rhythm Kings 1945

Mama Don’t Allow {No.1}

Washboard Sam 1935

Big Headed Woman

Sonny Boy & Lonnie 1945

Little Jazz Boogie

Roy Eldridge & his Orchestra 1945

Salt Peanuts

Dizzy Gillespie’s All Star Quintette 1945

Vibe Boogie

Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra 1945

Illinois Stomp

Illinois Jacquet and the Jacque Rabbits 1945

Charlie Johnson's Paradise Orchestra 

Face the Music 9.24.15 Fourth Fives

Sweet Man

Jelly Roll Morton player piano roll 1925

Sweet Man

Golden Gate Orchestra {California Ramblers} 1925

Don’t Forget

Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Orchestra 1925

Oh Susannah, Dust Off That Old Pianna

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

The Buzzard

Bud Freeman & his Windy City Five 1935

Bluein’ the Blues

Irving Fazola & his Dixielanders 1945

Who’s Sorry Now?

Wild Bill Davison & his Commodores 1945

Salty Dog

Sidney Bechet’s Blue Note Jazzmen 1945

Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider

Hoosier Hot Shots 1935

I’m in the Mood for Love

Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra 1935

Sophisticated Lady

Larry Adler, mouth harp virtuoso 1935

Night Wind

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

Conversing in Blue

Ben Webster with Benny Morton’s All Stars 1945

Blue, Turning Grey Over You

Ike Quebec Quintet 1945

Stompin’ at the Savoy

Flip Philips 1945

Ma Rainey

Bessie Smith

Face the Music 9/17/15 - a third parcel of fives

Yonder Comes the Blues

Ma Rainey & her Georgia Band 1925

Yellow Dog Blues

Bessie Smith with Henderson’s Hot Six 1925

Red Man Blues

Piron’s New Orleans Orchestra 1925

Kater Street Rag

Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1925

Just a Little Drink

Golden Gate Orchestra

{California Ramblers} 1925

Shanghai Shuffle

Sam Wooding’s Chocolate Dandies

Berlin 1925

Nagasaki

Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra 1935

What a Little Moonlight Can Do

Billie Holiday 1935

Crazy Rhythm

Alix Combelle et son Orchestre 1935

"A" Minor Stomp

Ikey Robinson & his Windy City Five 1935

Spreadin’ Rhythm Around

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

When I Take My Vacation in Harlem

Tampa Red 1935

Stuffy

Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra 1945

Topsy

Ike Quebec’s Swing Seven 1945

Jumpin’ at Mesner’s

Lester Young Sextet 1945

Dizzy Boogie

Slim Gaillard with Bird & Diz 1945

Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop

Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra 1945

Boogie in the Basement 

Luis Russell & his Orchestra 1945

I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, also known as The Figure 5 in Gold, is a 1928 painting by American artist Charles Demuth. It has been described as influenced by Futurism and Cubism. Painted as an homage to Demuth's friend William Carlos Williams, the painting references Williams' poem The Great Figure, which describes a fire engine speeding through the streets of a city (possibly New York) on a rainy night. The painting's title is a phrase from the poem. [Wikipedia]

Face the Music 9.10.15

A Second Handful of Fives

Tomato Sauce

Fred Longshaw piano solo 1925

It Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo’

Josie Miles & Elmer Snowden 1925

Davenport Blues

Bix & his Rhythm Jugglers 1925

Money Blues

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1925

O Katharina

Sam Wooding’s Chocolate Dandies – Berlin, 1925

Bajan Girl

Lionel Belasco piano solo 1915

Devil Behind Me, Leggo

Wilmoth Houdini

& the Calvary Bamboo Orchestra 1935

Jungle Drums

James P. Johnson piano solo 1945

La Cucaracha

Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra 1935

Whose Honey Are You?

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

Harlem Joys

Willie the Lion Smith & his Cubs 1935

Swingin’ ‘Em Down

Freddie Jenkins Harlem Seven 1935

Merry Go Round

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1935

Honky Tonk Train Blues

Meade Lux Lewis piano solo 1935

Dizzy Atmosphere

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945

Popity Pop

Slim Gaillard with Bird & Diz 1945

Takin’ Off

Dexter Gordon with

Sir Charles Thompson & his All Stars 1945

Tea for Two

Lennie Tristano

with the Emmett Carls Sextet 1945

Luckey Roberts

Face the Music 9.03.15

First Flush of Fives

{1^st of 18 programs focusing on

music written, published, recorded

in years ending with the numeral 5}

Spanish Venus

played by 86 year old Eubie Blake

composed in 1905 by Luckey Roberts

Suitcase Blues

Hersal Thomas 1925

St. Louis Blues

Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong 1925

Steel String Blues

Sylvester Weaver 1925

Yes! I’m in the Barrel

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five 1925

Midnight Special

Sodarisa Miller

accompanied by Jimmy Blythe 1925

New Orleans Shags

Richard M. Jones’ Three Jazz Wizards 1925
with Albert Nicholas & Johnny St. Cyr

Come On, Coot, and Do That Thing

Coot Grant, Kid Wesley Wilson

& Louis Armstrong

with Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1925

I’m a Hundred Per Cent for You

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

The Lady in Red

Louis Prima’s New Orleans Gang 1935

with Pee Wee Russell

Pelican Stomp

Cleo Brown 1935

Growlin’

Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra 1935

The Sheik

Willie Bryant & his Orchestra 1935

Baby Brown
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

Nagasaki

Cab Calloway & his Orchestra 1935

Scoops Carry’s Merry

Earl Hines & his Orchestra 1945

with Wardell Gray

Blue ‘n’ Boogie

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945

with Dexter Gordon

Groovin' High
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945
with Charlie Parker

Face the Music 8.27.15
Honoring Max Kaminsky, Eddie Condon & Art Hodes
in memory of Hazen Schumacher & Dave Crippen

Mammy O'Mine
Eddie Condon & his Band 1942

Lonesome Tag Blues
Eddie Condon & his Band 1942

Tortilla B Flat
Eddie Condon & his Band 1942

More Tortilla B Flat
Eddie Condon & his Band 1942

Nobody's Sweetheart Now
Art Hodes' Blue Five 1944

Squeeze Me
Art Hodes' Blue Note Jazzmen 1944

M.K. Blues
Art Hodes' Back Room Boys 1944

Blue Interlude
The Chocolate Dandies 1933

Apex Blues
Art Hodes' Blue Five 1944

Slow 'Em Down Blues
Art Hodes' Chicagoans 1944

Shake That Thing
Art Hodes' Blue Five 1944

There'll Be Some Changes Made
Art Hodes' Chicagoans 1944

Sweet Georgia Brown
Art Hodes' Blue Note Jazzmen 1944

That Eccentric Rag
Art Hodes Trio 1945