Saturday, January 28, 2017

Face the Music 2.02.17
Hear Me Talkin’ To Ya

Shout ‘Em Aunt Tillie
(Duke Ellington)
played by Marcus Roberts

Viola Lee Blues
(by Noah Lewis)
revisited by Ry Cooder

West End Blues
Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five

Hear Me Talkin’ To Ya
Ma Rainey & her Tub Jug Washboard Band

Bring It With You When You Come
Cannon’s Jug Stompers

Black, Brown & White Blues
Big Bill Broonzy

By Myself
Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam

Plucked Again
Duke Ellington & Jimmy Blanton

Mean To Me
Lester Young Trio

Travelin’ Blues
Slim Gaillard

Ghost of a Chance
Slim Gaillard

Baby Get Lost
Billie Holiday

Wig Blues
Lou Donaldson

Blow Top Blues
Dinah Washington

I’m Gonna Dig Myself a Hole
Arthur Big Boy Crudup



Monday, January 23, 2017


Face the Music 1.26.17
Be Your Natural Self

Hard Time Blues
Harlem Harmony Kings 1921

Worried and Lonesome Blues
James P. Johnson piano solo 1923

Mr. Crump Don’t Like It
{Ain’t Gonna Have It Here}
Beale Street Sheiks 1927

Ma and Pa Poorhouse Blues
Ma Rainey & Papa Charlie Jackson 1928

Poor Man's Blues
Bessie Smith 1928

Non-Skid Tread
Bertha Chippie Hill with
Scrapper Blackwell & Leroy Carr 1929

Easy Come Easy Go Blues
Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wizards 1927

Endurance Stomp
State Street Ramblers 1928

Hard Luck
Floyd Mills & his Marylanders 1929

Whitewash Man {by Jean Schwartz 1908}
Ralph Sutton piano solo 1949

Thou Swell
Tut Soper & Baby Dodds 1944

Be Your Natural Self
Frankie Half Pint Jaxon 1940

Big Cat Little Cat
Dan Burley & his Skiffle Boys 1946

Dive Bomber
Pete Johnson piano solo 1944

Blue’n’Boogie
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945

Chabootie
Gene Ammons 1950

Bikini 
Dexter Gordon 1947


Sunday, January 15, 2017

Face the Music 1.19.17 
Inauguration of the Socipathic Gibbering Twit

Stumbling
Zez Confrey

Was It a Lie?
Gene Rodgers piano solo 1936

Down and Out Blues
Lemuel Fowler player piano roll 1928

You’re Next
Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five 1926

That’s No Bargain
Red Nichols & his Five Pennies 1926

Satanic Blues
Original Dixieland Jazz Band 1919

Hellish Rag
Ma Rainey 1927

What Can You Mach? S’is America
Aaron Lebedoff & Alexander Olshanetski’s Orchestra 1929

Immigration Blues
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1926

Mortgage Blues
Frankie Half Pint Jaxon 1933

Democrat Man
John Lee Hooker 1960

Bourgeois Blues
Leadbelly 1938

Poor But Ambitious - calypso
Wilmoth Houdini 1940

Money is King - calypso
The Tiger 1935

Money, Money, Money
Slim Gaillard 1947

Scufflin’
Ike Quebec All Stars 1945




Friday, January 6, 2017

Face the Music 1.12.17
At Sixes & Sevens II


Down Home Rag
Wilbur Sweatman 1916


Livery Stable Blues
Original Dixieland Jazz Band 1917


No Place Like Home
Bert Williams 1917


Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go
With Friday on Saturday Night?
Ciro’s Club Coon Orchestra 1917


What Did Romie-O Juliet
(When He Climbed Her Balcony?)
Five Harmaniacs 1926


Hot Mustard
Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1926


Muskrat Ramble
Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five 1926


Geechee
Fats Waller with Morris’s Hot Babies 1927


How Ya Baby?
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1937


Was I Drunk?
Georgia White 1936


Onyx Hop
Frankie Newton’s Uptown Serenaders 1937


Boogie Woogie
Jones-Smith, Inc.
(Count Basie small band with
Jimmy Rushing & Lester Young) 1936


Lester’s Be-Bop Boogie
Lester Young 1946


Jumpin’ Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet 1946


Long Tall Dexter
Dexter Gordon 1946


Oop-Bop-Sh’Bam
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1946


U-Bla-Ba-Du
Machito & his Afro-Cubans
vocal by Graciela Perez c.1948