Pandoric prelude to Face the Music

Lammastide  8.02.18: 6:30-7:00 PM

‘Untitled Phrases’ from the cartoon “Cow Cow Boogie”

Meade Lux Lewis 1943

Grunt Meat Blues

Memphis Seven 1947

Farmer’s Market

Wardell Gray with Art Farmer 1952

Mellow Apples

Big Joe Williams 1947

Hot Corn, Cold Corn

Holy Modal Rounders 1964

Sweet Milk and Peaches (Breakdown)

W.T. Narmour & S.W. Smith 1929

Peach Orchard Mama

Blind Lemon Jefferson 1929

Old Hen Cackled, Laid a Double Egg

Ephram Carter 1970

The Ladder of Roses

Ciro’s Club Coon Orchestra 1916

Face the Music 8.02.18

Big Old Harvest

Royal Garden Blues

Mezzrow-Ladnier Quartet 1938

Chili Pepper

Fred Longshaw 1925

Mixed Salad

New Orleans Bootblacks 1926

Primrose Stomp

Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1930

Red Onion Drag

Louis Dumaine’s Jazzola Eight 1927

Fat Meat and Greens

Jimmy Blythe 1925

Blue Harvest Blues

Mississippi John Hurt 1928

Cane Break Blues

Jaybird Coleman & the Birmingham Jug Band 1930

Sweet Potato Blues

King David’s Jug Band 1930

Diggin’ My Potatoes

Washboard Sam 1939

Pea Vine Special

John Lee Hooker 1959

I’m Gonna Dig Myself a Hole

Arthur Big Boy Crudup 1951

Blueberry Rhyme

The Fat Babies 2013

Indian Summer

Sidney Bechet & his New Orleans Feetwarmers 1940

In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra 1933

Shine On, Harvest Moon

Count Basie & his Rhythm 1947

Blueberry Hill

Mose Allison 1957

Collard Greens & Black Eyed Peas

Bud Powell 1953

Face the Music 7.26.18 with special guest
Alex Belhaj - up from New Orleans - 

How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
Eddie Condon All-Stars 1954

Savoy Blues
Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band 1954

Careless Love
Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band 1945

Careless Love
Alex Belhaj's Crescent City Quartet 2013

Ready for the River
Alex Belhaj with the Riverside Jazz Collective 2018

Down Home Rag
Alex Belhaj with the On The Levee Jazz Band 2018

Loneliness
Alex Belhaj with Dr. Michael White 2018

'Til Times Get Better
The Fat Babies 2013

New Orleans Hula
George Lewis & his New Orleans Stompers 1943

Bugle Call Rag
Elmer Snowden Quartet with Cliff Jackson 1960

Wolverine Blues
Cliff Jackson's Washboard Wanderers with Elmer Snowden 1961

Utt da Zay
Klezmephonicwith Jennie Lavine & Alex Belhaj 2016

Centipede Still Walks 
Alex Belhaj 2007

Face the Music 7.19.18 - ‘Art Materials’

Potentials and probabilities for radio broadcast

No Parking

The Cotton Pickers 1929

Does My Sweetie Do - And How

Waring’s Pennsylvanians 1925

The Blue Danube

Pat Flowers at the piano 1945

The Thieving Magpie

French Carousel Organ

The Chrysanthemum

Scott Joplin {“plugged in”}

William Tell Overture

French Carousel Organ

Over the Waves

Coin-operated Nickelodeon

Ringworm

Van Morrison

Muskrat Ramble

Lyttelton Paseo Band

I Like to Be in America

French Carousel Organ

Tango

Nichols & May

Chinese Cha Cha

Lionel Newman & his Orchestra

Boum

French Carousel Organ

Boum!

Charles Trenet 1938

Draw You a Picture

John Wayne 1956

Sheik of Araby

Leo Addeo & his Orchestra 1960

Doo Dee Doo on an Old Kazoo

Art Mooney & his Orchestra 1947

Hungarian Rock

Gyorgy Ligeti 1978

Face the Music 7.12.18 - Bughouse

Bee’s Knees

Ralph Sutton & George Wettling 1952

Bumble Bee Blues

Tampa Red 1931

Boll Weevil Song

Alf “Chicken Dad” Valentine 1939

Mean Old Bedbug Blues

Bessie Smith 1927

These Ants Keep Biting Me

Big Bill Broonzy 1936

Cootie Stomp

State Street Ramblers 1927

Stompin’ the Bug

Fats Waller pipe organ solo 1927

The Mosquito Parade

White Star Orchestra 1997

Bughouse

Red Norvo & his Swing Octet 1935

A Mosquito Ate Up My Sweetheart

Segura Brothers 1928

La Cucaracha

Louis Armstrong 1935

Mosquito Song

Wingy Manone 1940

The Love Bug Will Bite You

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1937

I Can’t Dance, I’ve Got Ants In My Pants

Valaida Snow 1935

“Life” Spears a Jitterbug

Bud Freeman & his Gang 1938

Buzzin’ 'Round with the Bee

Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra 1937

Jiminy Crickets

Ray McKinley & his Orchestra 1946

Lazy Bug

Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra 1939

Face the Music 7.05.18

Serenade to a Lawn

Keep Off the Grass

James P. Johnson 1921

West Lawn Polka

Fred J. Bacon 1912

Let’s Go Sit on the Lawn

Lightnin’ Hopkins 1964

Weed

Bea Foote 1938

Devil in the Woodpile

Noah Lewis 1929

Ain’t Gonna Rain No More

Gus Cannon 1963

In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

Natty Dominique’s Creole Dance Band 1953

The Green Grass Grows All Around

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five 1947

{from the soundtrack of the film “Reet, Petite and Gone”

I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover

Coleman Hawkins 1962

My Little Grass Shack

Sol Hoopii 1933

Back in Your Own Backyard

Billie Holiday 1938

The Turf

John Kirby & his Orchestra 1939

You’re Lettin’ the Grass Grow Under Your Feet

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

Chewed Up Grass

Big Joe Turner 1941

The Squirrel

Fats Navarro with Tadd Dameron’s band

live at the Royal Roost NYC 1948

coda: Human Being Lawn Mower

MC5 live in Saginaw 1970

The Mole
Harry James & his Orchestra