Sunday, September 24, 2017

Face the Music 9.28.17: “Rifftide”

Potato Head Blues
River Raisin Ragtime Revue
live at Greenfield Village
Dearborn, Michigan 2011

Gallis Pole
Leadbelly live at a private party,
Minneapolis Minnesota 1948

Low Down Dog
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson
live at Cafe Society
Greenwich Village, NYC 1939

Honeysuckle Rose
George Lewis Ragtime Jazzband of New Orleans
live at Beverly Cavern, Hollywood 1953

Honeysuckle Rose
Frankie Newton & his Orchestra
live at Cafe Society
Greenwich Village, NYC 1939

Harlem Air Shaft
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
live broadcast from Eastwood Gardens,
Detroit 1940

Scoops Carry’s Merry
Wardell Gray with Earl Hines & his Orchestra
Jubilee broadcast, Hollywood 1944

Rifftide
Coleman Hawkins
live at the Apollo Theater 1950

Stuffy
Sir Charles Thompson
live at the Jazz Showcase, Chicago 2000

Flyin’ Home
Arnett Cobb & Tiny Grimes
live in Paris 1974

Waka Jawaka
NDR Big Band
live at the Moers Festival, Germany 2004

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Face the Music 9.21.17

More Rhythm
Lonnie Johnson live
at the Boulevard Lounge, Chicago 1941

Caravan
Art Tatum radio broadcast 1940

Rockin’ in Rhythm
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
Antibes Jazz Festival 1966

Roll ‘Em
Meade Lux Lewis with
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
radio broadcast 1939

One O’Clock Jump
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
radio broadcast 1937

I’ve Found a New Baby
Jay McShann & his Orchestra
with Charlie Parker
radio broadcast
Wichita, Kansas 1940

Variations on Honeysuckle Rose
& Body and Soul
Charlie Parker
private recording, Kansas City 1940

Honeysuckle Rose
Dexter Gordon, Don Byas, Ben Webster, Herbie Fields,
Stuff Smith, Duke Ellington et al 
8 minute jam in an unknown club 1945

Lady Be Good
Fats Navarro, Tadd Dameron, Allan Eager,
Curley Russell, Kenny Clarke
Royal Roost NYC 1948

Out of Nowhere
Charlie Parker at the Open Door NYC 1953

My Melancholy Baby
Lennie Tristano Quartet
live in the Sing Song Room,
Confucius Restaurant, NYC 1955


Monday, September 11, 2017

Face the Music 9.14.17
Vintage Live Jams III

Charleston Rag
Eubie Blake - live performance

I’m Gonna Sit Right Down
and Write Myself a Letter
Fats Waller - live performance

A.T.F.W.Y.O.U.
Jaki Byard in Germany

Tea for Two
Bud Powell Trio at Birdland 1950

Cocktails for Two
Charles Mingus Quintet in Minneapolis 1965

Doodlin’
Dizzy Gillespie & his Orchestra at Newport 1957

All the Things You C Sharp
Charles Mingus at the Bohemia

Almost Like Being in Love
Lester Young at the Royal Roost

Serenade in Vout
Slim Gaillard at Birdland
featuring extroverted saxophonist Lockjaw Davis


Monday, September 4, 2017

Face the Music 9.07.17
Vintage Live Jams
All Vinyl Program No.2
potentials & probabilities

Blues in B Flat
Hot Lips Page & Fats Waller
live at Carnegie Hall 1942

Savannah
Hot Lips Page
Live at the Apollo Theater
December 15th, 1945

Fine and Mellow
All of Me
Billie Holiday
Live at the Apollo Theater
December 15th, 1945

Cupid's Nightmare
Cab Calloway's Orchestra 
Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove N.J. 1940

Swingin' With Mezz
Mezz Mezzrow live in Paris 1953

On the Sunny Side of the Street
Dizzy Gillespie live in Paris 1953

Manteca
Dizzy Gillespie & his Orchestra
Live at Newport 1957

Hallelujah
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra

Doodlin'
Dizzy Gillespie & his Orchestra
Live at Newport 1957

Taxi War Dance
Lester Young & his Orchestra
Live broadcast from Manhattan Center 1940-41

Lester Leaps In
Lester Young at the Savoy Ballroom 1950

Jumpin' with Symphony Sid
Lester Young in Washington D.C. 1953

Tea for Two
Bud Powell Trio at Birdland 1956