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