Tuesday, October 31, 2017


Pandora’s Lunchbox 11.02.17
Nine Delectable Selections from 1927

Cheese and Crackers
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four

A Mug of Ale
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four

Clarinet Marmalade
Bix Beiderbecke with Frankie Trumbauer’s Orchestra

Cornfed
Red Nichols & his Five Pennies

Smoked Meat Blues
Richard M. Jones’ Jazz Wizards

I Wanna Hot Dog For My Roll
Butterbeans & Susie

Hot Dogs
Blind Lemon Jefferson

Struttin’ With Some Barbecue
Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five

Hop Head
Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra

Face the Music 11.02.17: The Pearls
90 year retrospective - 1927


Singin’ the Blues
Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer


In a Mist
Bix Beiderbecke piano solo


The Pearls
Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers


Black & Tan Fantasy
Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra


Crawley Clarinet Moan
Wilton Crawley


Creole Love Call
Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra
vocal by Adelaide Hall


Sloppy Water Blues
Thomas Waller hot pipe organ solo


Back Water Blues
Bessie Smith with James P. Johnson


Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
Blind Willie Johnson


Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home
Gus Cannon as Banjo Joe, with Blind Blake


See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Blind Lemon Jefferson


Police and High Sheriff Come Ridin’ Down
Ollis Martin


Dry Bone Shuffle
Blind Blake


The Bumps
Jeanette’s Synco Jazzers


Mean Dog Blues
Red Nichols and his Five Pennies


Fourth Avenue Stomp
Frank Bunch and his Fuzzy Wuzzies


Twelfth Street Rag
Louis Armstrong & his Hot Seven

St. Louis Shuffle
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Face the Music 10.27.17
more remarkable records from 1927 

Make Me Know It
Jelly James and his Fewsicians

Jungle Blues
Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers
featuring percussionist Baby Dodds

Farewell Blues
Goofus Five

Sugar
McKenzie & Condon’s Chicagoans

Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble
Original Wolverines

Wild Cat
Venuti & Lang

Crazy Quilt
Dixon’s Jazz Maniacs

Ballin’ the Jack
Chicago Footwarmers
featuring Baby Dodds on the washboard

Midnight Stomp
Jeanette’s Synco-Jazzers

Matchbox Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson

All That I Had Is Gone
James P. Johnson

Alligator Crawl
Louis Armstrong & his Hot Seven

East St. Louis Toodle-oo
The Washingtonians

Shufflin’ Sadie
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra

He’s Gone Away
Thomas Waller with Morris’s Hot Babies

Blue Black Bottom Stomp
Fats Waller

Washington Wobble
Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra

Moten Stomp
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra





Monday, October 16, 2017

Face the Music 10.19.17: 
Remarkable Records from 1927 

Willie the Weeper
Louis Armstrong & his Hot Seven

Jazzin’ Babies Blues
Richard M. Jones Jazz Wizards

Shake Em Up
Clarence Williams & his Orchestra

Stomp Time Blues
Jasper Taylor & his State Street Boys

St. Louis Blues
Nashville Jazzers

Preachin’ the Blues
Bessie Smith & James P. Johnson

New Jelly Roll Blues
Peg Leg Howell & his Gang

Guitar Rag
Sylvester Weaver

Jonestown Blues
Gus Cannon billed as Banjo Joe

Wild Man Blues
Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers

Snag It
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra

New Orleans Lowdown
Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra

Happy Hour Blues
Lloyd Scott & his Orchestra

Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
Frankie Trumbauer’s Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke

Eddie’s Twister
Eddie Lang & Arthur Schutt

Alabama Stomp
Red Nichols & his Five Pennies

A Good Man is Hard to Find
The Red Heads


Ostrich Walk
Bix Beiderbecke with
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra



Sunday, October 8, 2017

Face the Music 10.12.17
Queer Notions

Tricky Fingers
Eubie Blake

Old Man Mose
Gold Washboard Band
at the Stodola Club, Warsaw Poland

Hey! Stop That Dancin’ Up There
Harry the Hipster Gibson

Old Yazoo
Hot Lips Page at Minton’s Playhouse

Honeysuckle Rose
Fats Waller - Freedom’s People broadcast

Queer Notions
Limehouse Blues
King Porter Stomp
Take the ‘A’ Train
Lightnin’
Sun Ra & his Arkestra

C-M = B05 - 7
Anthony Braxton in Berlin, Germany

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Face the Music 10.05.17: Good Bait

Tea for Two
Hot Lips Page, Donald Lambert & Herbie Fields
house party location recording 1940

On the Sunny Side of the Street
Frankie Newton & his Orchestra
Cafe Society, Greenwich Village NYC 1939

Under the Double Eagle
Wilbur de Paris & the Rampart Street Ramblers
at Jimmy Ryan’s on West 52nd Street, NYC, c.1955-58

Honeysuckle Rose
Ralph Sutton & Friends, Hamburg Germany 1999

Five O’Clock Drag
Perdido
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra
Hotel Sherman, Chicago 1942

Frenesi
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra
broadcast transcription 1941

Dark Eyes
Charlie Ventura band at the Three Deuces, NYC 1947

Indiana
Don Byas, Thelonious Monk & Kenny ‘Klook’ Clarke
Minton’s Playhouse, Harlem NYC 1941

Good Bait
Fats Navarro with the Tadd Dameron band
Royal Roost NYC 1948