Sidney Bechet

Rosa Henderson

Bunk Johnson

Thomas Waller

Richard M. Jones' Three Jazz Wizards

Face the Music 10.29.15:

9^th selection of Fives

Chili Pepper

Fred Longshaw piano solo 1925

Jimmie Blues

Jimmy Blythe piano solo 1925

29th and Dearborn

Richard M. Jones’ Three Jazz Wizards 1925

Everything My Sweetie Does Pleases Me

Rosa Henderson & the Kansas City Four 1925

You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon

{But You Done Broke Down}

Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong

& Fred Longshaw 1925

Lorenzo’s Blues {Morning After Blues}

The Carnival Three {James P. Johnson,

Omer Simeon & Pops Foster} 1945

Up in Sidney’s Flat

Bunk Johnson & Sidney Bechet 1945

Gut Bucket Blues

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five 1925

Stop That Thing

Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon 1935

Medley:

E Flat Blues

Alligator Crawl

Zonky

Fats Waller piano solo 1935

My Very Good Friend the Milkman

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

Medley:

You’re the Top

Blue Turning Grey Over You

Russian Fantasy

Fats Waller piano solo 1935

I’ve Got the World on a String

Hot Lips Page & his Band 1945

Just One of Those Things

Benny Goodman Sextet 1945

All the Things You Are

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet

with Charlie Parker 1945

Don Byas

Face the Music 10.22.15 – 8^th set of Fives

Tillie’s Downtown Now

Bud Freeman & his Windy City Five 1935

{opens with rare example of Bud playing clarinet}

Blue Drag

Quintette du Hot Club de France 1935

Days Beyond Recall

Bunk Johnson & Sidney Bechet 1945

{Bechet confining himself to the clarinet}

Ain’t Misbehavin’

Pat Flowers 1945

{Detroit based pianist & Fats Waller devotee}

I Believe in Miracles

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

{featuring Waller the organist}

Stardust

Coleman Hawkins avec Django Reinhardt 1935

When Somebody Thinks You’re Wonderful

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

Slim’s Jam

Slim Gaillard with Dodo Marmarosa, Bam Brown,

Zutty Singleton, Jack McVea, Charlie Parker &

Dizzy Gillespie 1945

Black and Tan Fantasy

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1945

Song of the Vagabonds

Art Tatum piano solo recorded live for V Disc 1945

Texas Stomp

Big Maceo Merriweather & Tampa Red

with drummer Tyrell Dixon 1945

Screamin’ Boogie

Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra

extended play V-Disc recording 1945

At the El Grotto

Wardell Gray with Earl Hines’ Orchestra 1945

What’s This

Illinois Jacquet & his All Stars 1945

Girl of my Dreams

Ike Quebec All Stars 1945

Donby {based on “Perdido”}

Don Byas Quartet 1945

Face the Music 10.15.15 – A Seventh Parcel of Fives

Fat Meat and Greens

Jimmy Blythe piano solo 1925

Charleston

James P. Johnson player piano roll 1925

Charleston

{test pressing with weird novelty vocal outbursts}

Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra 1925

Spanish Shawl

Richard M. Jones Jazz Wizards 1925

My Heart

Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five 1925

{first recording as leader of his own band}

Get It Fixed

Rosa Henderson with the Kansas City Four 1925

Toddlin’ Blues

Bix Beiderbecke & his Rhythm Jugglers 1925

Mishawaka Blues

The Cotton Pickers 1925

TNT

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra 1925

Maple Leaf Rag

Paul Mares & his Friars Society Orchestra 1935

Bandana Days

The Carnival Three 1945

{James P. Johnson, Omer Simeon, Pops Foster}

Take It Easy

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

Streamline Gal

Willie the Lion Smith & his Cubs 1935

Runnin’ Wild

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra 1935

Farewell Blues

The Delta Four 1935

{Roy Eldridge, Joe Marsala,

Carmen Mastren, Sid Weiss}

Bughouse

Red Norvo & his Swing Octet 1935

{including Bunny Berigan,

Chu Berry & Gene Krupa}

Good Bait

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945

Tippin’ In

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra 1945

Willie the Lion Smith

Oliver Naylor's Orchestra

Face the Music 10.08.15: A Sixth Parcel of Fives

Hors d’oeuvre

Murray’s Ragtime Banjo Quartet

with the Bohemian Band – London 1915

I’m Neutral

Bert Williams 1915

Manhattan

California Ramblers 1925

Cake Walkin’ Babies From Home

Bessie Smith with Henderson’s Hot Six 1925

Bessemer Bound Blues

Ma Rainey & her Georgia Band

{Henderson’s unit with

Coleman Hawkins blowing bass sax} 1925

Rock, Aunt Dinah, Rock

Coot Grant & Kid Wesley Wilson 1925

Rag Mama Rag {take two}

Blind Boy Fuller & Gary Davis 1935

Keep Your Temper

The Gulf Coast Seven with

Willie the Lion Smith 1925

Military Mike

Original Memphis Five 1925

In Harlem’s Araby

The Get Happy Band

with Sidney Bechet 1925

Hot Aire

George Olsen & his Music 1925

Look Who’s Here!

The Little Ramblers 1925

Sweet Georgia Brown

Oliver Naylor’s Orchestra 1925

Rampart Street Blues

Lovie Austin & her Serenaders 1925

Wolverine Blues

At Hodes Hot Seven 1945

Harlem Hotcha

The Carnival Three

{James P. Johnson,

Omer Simeon & Pops Foster} 1945

King Porter

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra

{arrangement by Fletcher Henderson} 1935