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