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