Saturday, April 28, 2018


Face the Music 50318 - Fats Waller In Context {I}

Original Rags {Scott Joplin 1899}
Jelly Roll Morton piano solo 1939

The Chrysanthemum {Scott Joplin 1904}
William Albright piano solo 1989

Euphonic Sounds {Scott Joplin 1909}
James P. Johnson piano solo 1944

Leola - two step {Scott Joplin 1905}
Charles Thompson piano solo - early 1960s

Charleston Rag {Eubie Blake 1899}
Eubie Blake player piano roll 1917

Gypsy Blues {Eubie Blake 1921}
James P. Johnson player piano roll 1921

Runnin’ Wild Medley: 
The Charleston/Old Fashioned Love/
Open Your Heart/Love Bug
James P. Johnson player piano roll 1924

Got To Cool My Doggies Now
Thomas Waller’s first player piano roll 1923

Muscle Shoals Blues
Birmingham Blues
Thomas Waller’s first recorded piano solos 1922

Caprice Rag {James P. Johnson 1917}
James P. Johnson piano solo 1943

Nothin’
Charles Luckeyeth Roberts piano solo 1958

Echoes of Spring
Willie The Lion Smith piano solo 1939

Swampy River
Duke Ellington piano solo 1928

Sweet and Low Down
George Gershwin player piano roll 1926

Young and Healthy
Art Tatum piano solo
from a radio broadcast - 1934



Tuesday, April 24, 2018


Face the Music 4.26.18: Time Pieces II

My Papa Doesn’t Two Time No Time
Rosa Henderson 1924

Idle Hour Special
Jimmy Bertrand's Washboard Wizards 1926

Four Or Five Times
Bechet-Spanier Big Four 1940

Got No Time
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

Off Time
Gene Sedric & his Honey Bears with Myra Johnson 1938

It’s Time For T
Jack Teagarden & his Orchestra 1941

Just a Minute
Count Basie & his Orchestra 1947

Overtime
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra 1944

Overtime
Metronome All-Stars
with Charlie Parker & Lennie Tristano 1949

Now’s the Time
Charlie Parker All-Stars 1945

The Last Time I Saw Paris
Bud Powell 1951

Time and Tide
Red Norvo Trio
with Tal Farlow & Charles Mingus 1950

Time
Roland Kirk 1962

Just in Time
Gerry Mulligan Quartet
with Art Farmer 1959

I’m Having a Good Time
Alberta Hunter 1978

If You’ve Got The Money Honey I’ve Got The Time
Mose Allison 1971

Fourth Dimension
Zez Confrey 1959
played by Eteri Andjaparidze in 1995




Sunday, April 15, 2018


Face the Music 4.19.18
Time Pieces

There’ll Come a Time
Bix & Tram 1928

Stomp Time Blues
Jasper Taylor & his State Street Boys 1927

What a Wonderful Time
Sonny Clay & the California Poppies 1923

Hard Time Blues
Harlem Harmony Kings 1921

Your Time Now
Thomas Waller player piano roll 1923

Off Time Blues
Earl Hines piano solo 1928

Big Time Woman
Wilton Crawley 1930

The Last Time I Saw Chicago
The Three Deuces 1941

Summertime
Sidney Bechet Quintet 1939

Time Out
Count Basie & his Orchestra
live at the Famous Door 1939

Minute Waltz
John Kirby & his Orchestra 1939

Tempus Fugue-it (Tempus Fugit)
Bud Powell Trio 1949

A Stritch in Time
Roland Kirk 1962

Once Upon a Time
Earl Hines with a band of Ellingtonians
and master percussionist Elvin Jones 1966

Acht O’Clock Rock
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1971

Fourth Dimension
composed by Zez Confrey in 1959

Time Races with Emit
Roland Kirk 1962





Sunday, April 8, 2018


Face the Music 4.12.18
Everybody and You

Everybody and You
Princeton Triangle Jazz Band 1928

When You Want ‘Em You Can’t Get ‘Em
When You’ve Got ‘Em You Don’t Want ‘Em
George Gershwin player piano roll 1916

By a Waterfall, I’m Calling You
Bonzo Dog Band 1968

I Want To Talk About You
John Lee Hooker 1960

You So Small
Roosevelt Sykes 1963

You Brought a New Kind of Love To Me
Vic Dickenson Septet 1954

These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You
Art Pepper Quartet 
with Hampton Hawes 1952

I Can’t Escape From You
Dexter Gordon Quintet 
with Bud Powell 1946

You Go To My Head
Anthony Braxton 1972

You Stepped Out of a Dream
Anthony Braxton 1975

Bellevue For You
Pete Brown Quintette 1944

I Remember You
Lee Konitz Trio
with Elvin Jones 1961

Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am
Charles Mingus with Booker Ervin
& Roland Kirk 1961





Sunday, April 1, 2018



Face the Music ​4.05.18

Be Yourself
Are You Making Any Money?
Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra 1933
vocal by Ramona

When You’re With Somebody Else
Shilkret’s Rhythmelodists 1928

You Forgot Your Gloves
Fred Waring & his Pennsylvanians 1931
vocal by Clare Hanlon

If I Had You
Art Tatum piano solo 1955

Gee, Ain’t I Good To You?
Don Redman & Fats Waller with
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers 1929

How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
Rosa Henderson accompanied by
pianist Fletcher Henderson 1924

Ain’t Gonna Run You Down
Jimmy Blythe player piano roll

You Got The Right Key But The Wrong Keyhole
Virginia Liston with Clarence Williams’ Blue Five
featuring Louis Armstrong & Sidney Bechet 1924

I’ll See You In The Spring, When the Birds Begin to Sing
Memphis Jug Band - Atlanta, Georgia 1927

Be Yourself
Sodarisa Miller
accompanied by pianist Jimmy Blythe 1925

You Know It Ain’t Right
Merline Johnson ‘The Yas Yas Girl’ 1940

You’re Driving Me Crazy
Lester Young Quintet 1946

The Way You Look Tonight
Erroll Garner Trio 1949

More Than You Know
Flip Phillips & his Orchestra 1945

P.S. I Love You
Sonny Stitt blowing baritone sax 1951

I’m No Good Without You
Lennie Tristano Quintet
live at Birdland 1949

I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
Lennie Tristano Trio 1946