Monday, August 29, 2016


Mahavishnu Joe
Face the Music 90116
Joe Show No. 3
Joes and Joes

Pacific Coast Blues
Joe Smith, cornetist with
Ethel Waters’ Jazz Masters 1922

Camp Meeting Blues
Joe “King” Oliver’s Jazz Band 1923

Sweet Man Joe
Josie Miles with the Kansas City Five 1924

Baby Doll
Bessie Smith accompanied by cornetist Joe Smith 1926

Tar Paper Stomp
Barbecue Joe & his Hot Dogs 1930

King Kong Stomp
Joseph Robichaux
& his New Orleans Rhythm Boys 1933

Cows, See That Train Comin’
Joe Pullum 1934

Sweet Patunia Stomp
Monkey Joe 1935

Don’t Go Away Nobody
Wooden Joe Nicholas 1945

Wolverine Blues
Joe Marsala’s Chicagoans 1937

If You Take Me Back
Big Joe & his Washboard Band 1940

Lucille
Joe Turner backed by Art Tatum & his band 1941

Swing 42
Joseph Reinhardt avec
Gus Viseur et son Orchestre 1942

Caravan
Joe Turner piano solo 1976

Caravan
Joe Venuti, Eldon Shamblin,
Curly Chalker & Jethro Burns 1977

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Face the Music 8.25.16 - Joe Show No. 2

Joe Turner Blues
Wilbur Sweatman's Jazz Band 1917

Stop It Joe
James P. Johnson player piano roll 1917

Crazy Jo'
Harry Reser 1922

Sweet Man Joe
Josie Miles, Bubber Miley & Arthur Ray 1924

Down at Papa Joe's
Bob Milne

Accordion Joe
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1930

Kickin' the Gong Around
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra 
test pressing 1933

Old Joe's Hittin' the Jug
Stuff Smith & his Onyx Club Boys 1936

Whatcha Know, Joe?
Fats Waller & his Rhythm broadcasting live from the
Panther Room, Hotel Sherman, Chicago 1936

That Gets It, Mister Joe
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

The Gal From Joe's
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1938

A-Well-A-Take-'Em-Joe (Crapshooter's Jive)
Slim Gaillard & his Flat Foot Floogie Boys 1939

The Mosquito Song
Joe "Wingy" Manone & his Orchestra 1940

Cheetie Bo Joe
Oran Thaddeus Hot Lips Page 1949

Hold Him, Joe
Bull Moose Jackson & his Buffalo Bear Cats 1945

Smokey Joe's Cafe
The Robins 1955

Nosey Joe
Moose Jackson 1952


Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Vishnu Joe
Face the Music 8.18.16: 
the first in a series of Joe Shows 

Scissor Grinder Joe 
Cook’s Dreamland Orchestra 1924 

Oh Joe, Play That Trombone 
Ethel Waters & her Jazz Masters 1922 

King Joe 
Jimmie Noone & his Apex Club Orchestra 
with pianist Earl Hines 1928 

Four String Joe 
Joe Venuti’s Blue Five 1927 

South American Joe 
mouth organ virtuoso Larry Adler 
with Fred Hartley’s Orchestra 1935 

Uncle Jo, Gimme Mo! 
Calypso king Wilmoth Houdini 
with Gerald Clark’s Iere String Band 1928 

Uncle Joe 
Coot Grant and Kid Wesley Wilson with 
Sidney Bechet’s New Orleans Feetwarmers 1938 

Mister Joe 
Jelly Roll Morton 1939 

Joe Turner Blues 
published in 1915 by W.C. Handy 
performed in 2003 by Carl Wolfe’s Orchestra 

Sloppy Joe 
Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Orchestra 
wordless vocal by percussionist Sonny Greer 1929 

Stop It, Joe 
Rosetta Howard and James P. Johnson 
with Mezz Mezzrow & his Orchestra 1939 

Dopey Joe 
Slim & Slam 1938 

Kokey Joe 
Mills Blue Rhythm Band 1933 

Jo Jo 
Lester Young & the Kansas City Six 1944 

Hairy Joe Jump (Southern Fried) 
Harlan Leonard & his Rockets 1940 

Happiness is a Thing Called Joe 
Gene Ammons Quartet 1951 



Saturday, August 6, 2016

Face the Music 8.11.16: The "Oh" Show 

I'm Feeling Devilish, Oh By Golly Oh 

Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra 1928 

Alabama Song - Blues
Marek Weber Orchester, Berlin 1928

O ("Oh!")
Jack Kaufman with the Ted Lewis Jazz Band 1919 


Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo 

Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra, London 1917 

Oh You Beautiful Doll 

American Quartet 1911 

O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? 

Bert Williams, August 1918 

Oh! You Lulu Belle 

Broadway Bell-Hops 1926 

Oh! Peter, You're So Nice 

Red Nichols Orchestra 1931 

Oh! Dad 

Humphrey Lyttelton 1954 

Oh Sister Ain't That Hot 

Fats Waller with Eddie Condon's Band 1940 

Oh Didn't He Ramble 

Jelly Roll Morton 1938 

Oh Lizzie 

Johnny Dodds Trio 1927 

Oh Papa Blues 

Ma Rainey & her Georgia Band 1927 

Oh Ambulance Man 

Memphis Jug Band 1930 

Oh You Devil You 

Oliver Brown 1935 

Oh Rock It For Me 

Hot Lips Page & his Band 1938 

Oh No! 

Pee Wee Russell 1958 

Oh Henry 

James Moody's Modernists 1948 

Tuesday, August 2, 2016


Face the Music - potentials & probabilities for 80416

Waltzes for two violins & piano by Dmitri Shostakovich
from the Soviet film "The Gadfly" 1955
played by Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman & Samuel Sanders

When You're With Somebody Else
Shilkret's Rhyth-Melodists 1928

Sunday
Broadway Bell-Hops 1926

I'll Build an Igloo for You
Princeton Triangle Jazz Band 1928

Sittin' in a Corner
Golden Gate Orchestra 1923

Oh Baby
Eddie Condon Quartet 1928

Oh! Daddy
Johnny Dodds & Tiny Parham 1927

Maria Elena
Bunk Johnson & his Band 1947

Little Joe From Chicago
Mary Lou Williams 1939

Hangin' Around Boudon
Dicky Wells et son Orchestre, Paris 1937

After Hour Blues
Frank Newton Quintet 1939

I Don't Believe It
Bud Freeman Trio 1938

Tea for Two
Lester Young Trio 1942

Tea for Two
Dodo Marmarosa 1946

Jazz Me Blues
Art Pepper & The Rhythm Section 1957

Begin the Beguine
Charlie Parker 1952

I Get a Kick Out Of You
Erroll Garner Trio 1944