Face the Music 12.03.15 - Fourteenth Fives

Blue-Gummed Blues

{W.C. Handy 1915}

Carl Wolfe’s Orchestra

Amazonia

{Zez Confrey 1945}

Eteri Andjaparidze piano solo

Samuel

Bert Williams

monologue with orchestra  1915

All I Want Is A Spoonful

Papa Charlie Jackson 1925

Tired Of Fattening Frogs For Snakes

Virginia Liston with

Clarence Williams at the reed organ 1925

Stack O’ Lee Blues

Ma Rainey & her Georgia Band 1925

Chevy Chase

Eubie Blake player piano roll 1915

Steppin’ On the Gas

Jimmie O’Bryant’s

Famous Original Washboard Band 1925

Mama’s Gone, Goodbye

Boston Orchestra – London 1925

Alexander’s Ragtime Band

Bunk Johnson & his New Orleans Band 1945

Shade Of The Old Apple Tree

{Harry Williams & Egbert Van Alstyne 1905}

Natty Dominique’s Creole Dance Band

Red Sails In The Sunset

{Hugh Williams & Jimmy Kennedy 1935}

Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra 1935

Meditation

Coleman Hawkins & the Ramblers

Holland 1935

I Don’t Know Why {Russ Columbo}

Don Byas Quartet 1945

April In Paris

Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra

Hollywood 1945

Djangology

Django Reinhardt

Quintette du Hot Club de France 1935

Now’s The Time

Charlie Parker’s Reboppers 1945

Face the Music 11.26.15:

Thirteenth Bundle of Fives offa

Long playing phonograph records

I’m Gonna Hang Around My Sugar

Duke Ellington's Washingtonians 1925

Meanest Blues

Original Memphis Five 1925

Dark Gal Blues

Kansas City Five 1925

Have Your Chill, I’ll Be Here

When Your Fever Rises

Coot Grant & Wesley Wilson

with Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1925

By The Waters Of The Minnetonka

Sam Wooding’s Orchestra in Berlin 1925

When The Moon Shines In Coral Gables

California Ramblers 1925

Deep Elm

The Little Ramblers 1925

Red Hot Henry Brown

Charleston Chasers 1925

Paddlin’ Madelin’ Home

Whitey Kaufman & his Orchestra 1925

If the Moon Turns Green

Taft Jordan & his Mob 1935

Down Home Rag

Chick Webb & his Orchestra 1935

Riffs

Boots & his Buddies 1935

I Never Knew Just What A Gal Could Do

Art Hodes Hot Seven 1945

Careless Love

Baby Dodds Jazz Four 1945

Blues For Jelly

Art Hodes’ Back Room Boys 1945

Feelin’ At Ease

Baby Dodds’ Jazz Four 1945

Walk On Down

Art Hodes Hot Seven 1945

Face the Music 11.19.15

Twelfth Fives or What You Will

Who Pumped the Wind in My Doughnut?

Washboard Sam 1935

Put It Where I Can Get It

Hociel Thomas with

Louis Armstrong’s Jazz Four 1925

Red Mountain Blues

Bessie Smith 1925

Blue Reefer Blues

Richard M. Jones’ Jazz Wizards 1935

Kentucky Home

Bunk Johnson’s Dance Band 1945

Blanche Touquatoux

Kid Ory’s Creole Jazz Band

vocal by Cecile Ory 1945

What-Cha-Call-‘Em-Blues

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1925

She’s Crying For Me

New Orleans Rhythm Kings 1925

You Took Advantage of Me

Bunny Berigan & his Blue Boys 1935

On the Alamo

Wild Bill Davison & his Commodores 1945

Miff’s Blues

Miff Mole with Nick’s Dixieland Band 1945

These Foolish Things

Lester Young Quartet 1945

To a Wild Rose

Herman Chittison 1945

The Blue Danube

Pat Flowers 1945

20th Century Blues

Sir Charles Thompson & his All Stars 1945

Billie’s Bounce

Charlie Parker’s Reboppers 1945

Jim Dawgs
Ike Quebec All-Stars 1945

Dizzy Gillespie

grabbed by 

Rubberlegs Williams 

behind the Apollo Theater

Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie

Face the Music 11.12.15

Eleventh Elevation of Fives:

Special report on early modern jazz, 1945

What’s The Matter Now

I Want Every Bit Of It

That’s The Blues

4-F Blues

performed by Clyde Hart’s All-Stars

{with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie 
Don Byas & Trummy Young}

backing blues shouter Rubberlegs Williams 1945

Dream of You

Seventh Avenue

Sorta Kinda

Ooh, Ooh, My, My, Ooh, Ooh

performed by the same group, billed as

James “Trummy” Young’s All-Stars 1945

D.B. Blues

Lester Young Quintet 1945

Scufflin’

Ike Quebec All-Stars 1945

Cherokee

Don Byas Quartet 1945

Ko-Ko

Charlie Parker’s Reboppers 1945

Line Up

Lennie Tristano Trio 1955

Be-Bop

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945

Mop-Mop

Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra 1945

Flat Foot Floogie

Slim Gaillard with Bird & Diz 1945

Two Left Feet

Skip Hall & his Band 1945

Detroit Jump
Big Maceo & Tampa Red
with drummer Tyrell Dixon 1945

Face the Music 11.05.15

Tenth Fusillade of Fives

Money is King {calypso}

The Tiger 1935

Nothing but the Blues

Gene Gifford Orchestra

vocal by Wingy Manone 1935

Snag It

Bunk Johnson

& his New Orleans Band 1945

Jazz Me Blues

Irving Fazola

& his Dixielanders 1945

Meddlin’ with the Blues

Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Orchestra 1925

Ha-Cha-Nan

Hoosier Hot Shots 1935

My Best Girl

Waikiki Hawaiian Trio 1925

Unfortunate Blues

Boston Orchestra – London 1925

Everybody

Bert Williams 1915

Ritual Fire Dance

{by Manuel de Falla}

Larry Adler
{mouth organ virtuoso} – London 1935

Lullabye of Broadway

Harry Roy – “The King of Hot-Cha”

& his Orchestra – London 1935

Oriental Hora

Yiddish Swingtette 1955

Red Velvet

Joe Venuti & Russ Morgan 1935

You Fit into the Picture

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

Everything’s Been Done Before

Al Bowlly with Ray Noble’s Orchestra

London 1935

Why Shouldn’t I?

Flip Philips Hiptet 1945

Stompin’ at the Savoy

Gene Krupa & his Orchestra 1945

Blue Skies

Count Basie & his Orchestra 1945