Face the Music 9.06.18: Out on the Towns

Pre-Show Playlist of Potentials & Probabilities

Shreveport Stomps

Jelly Roll Morton 1924

St. Louis Blues

W.C.Handy’s Memphis Blues Band 1922

Davenport Blues

Bix Beiderbecke's Rhythm Jugglers 1925

Mishawaka Blues

The Cotton Pickers 1925

West Dallas Drag

Rob Cooper - San Antonio, 1934

Boston Skuffle

Jabbo Smith’s Rhythm Aces 1929

Memphis Shake

Johnny Dodds & the Dixieland Jug Blowers 1926

Kansas City Stomp

Dink Johnson 1950

Harlem Air Shaft

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra
broadcasting from Detroit, 1940

Travelin’ Blues

Slim Gaillard 1945

Little Joe From Chicago

Mary Lou Williams 1938

Baltimore Bounce

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra 1939

Way Down Yonder in New Orleans

Lester Young & the Kansas City Six 1938

Dusk in Upper Sandusky

Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra 1938

Cincinnati Dancing Pig

Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra
authentic seven inch juke box 33rpm single, 1950

Illinois Goes to Chicago

Illinois Jacquet 1946

North Gulfport Boogie

Roosevelt Sykes 1962

Detroit Jump

Big Maceo with Tyrell Dixon & Tampa Red 1945

Face the Music 8.30.18

These Purportedly United States

potentials & probabilities

Michigan Water Blues

Jelly Roll Morton 1939

Down Home in Kentucky

Frankie Half Pint Jaxon 1929

Georgia Grind

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five 1926

Alabama Strut

Cow Cow Davenport with

commentary by Ivy Smith 1928

Carolina Shout

Jimmie Johnson’s Jazz Boys 1921

Arkansas Blues

James P. Johnson player piano roll 1921

Alabama Stomp

Red Nichols & his Five Pennies 1927

Louisiana

Bix & his Gang 1928

Carry Me Back to Old Virginny

Valaida Snow 1940

California Stomp

Sonny Clay’s Plantation Orchestra 1926

Jersey Lightning

Luis Russell & his Orchestra 1929

Mississippi Mildred

Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1929

Florida Flo

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1938

Indiana

Kid Ory’s Creole Jazz Band 1954

Indiana

Lester Young Quintet with Count Basie 1944

Illinois Blows the Blues

Illinois Jacquet 1947

Texas Shuffle

Count Basie & his Orchestra 1938

Texas Stomp

Big Maceo Merriweather

with Tyrell Dixon & Tampa Red 1945

Face the Music 8.23.18: Inter-National Relations [1]

At a Georgia Camp Meeting - cakewalk

Kronobergs Regementes Musikkar - Gothenberg, Sweden 1899

Trinidad Paseo

Lovey’s Trinidad String Band - NYC 1912

Allah’s Holiday

Gil Batlle Orchester - Zurich, Switzerland 1921

Shepherd Playing the Flute

Pawlo Humeniuk ensemble - NYC 1927

Paahana {Quitting Time}

Andrew Aiona Novelty Four - Los Angeles 1929

Cuba en Paris - danzon

Orchestre Typique Cubain - Paris 1930

Ein Kleines Kompliment

Fritz Schulz - Germany

Benares Song {by Elisabeth Hauptmann & Bertold Brecht}

Robyn Archer & the London Sinfonietta 1981

Das ist das Gassenjugenlied

Friedl Czepa und Hans Schott-Schobinger - Germany

Blues

Frankfurt Hot Club - Berlin 1942

Bye Bye Blackbird

(Bye Bye Empire)

Charlie & his Orchestra - Berlin 1941

Who’ll Buy My Bublitchki?

(Everybody’s Going Bolsheviki!)

Charlie & his Orchestra - Berlin 1941

Hold Tight, Want Some Seafood Mama

(Red Front - Want Some Communism)

Charlie & his Orchestra - Berlin 1942-43

I See a Village

Red Army Choir

Festina Lente

Antonin Bily & the Traditional Jazz Studio - Prague 1972

Festival Swing 1941

Django Reinhardt, Quintette of the Hot Club de France

and eleven horn players - Paris 1940

Air Mail Special

Radio Berlin Tanzorchester {R.B.T.} - Berlin 1946

Face the Music 8.16.18 - “Originals”

Everybody’s Crazy ‘Bout the Doggone Blues, But I’m Happy

Wilbur Sweatman’s Original Jass Band 1918

Look at ‘em Doing It

Original Dixieland Jazz Band 1919

Birmingham Blues

Original Jazz Hounds 1921

There Ain’t No Gal Like My Gal

Original Memphis Melody Boys 1923

Back O’ Town Blues

Original Memphis Five 1923

Applesauce

Original Capitol Orchestra 1923

Sensation Rag

Original Crescent City Jazzers 1924

Original Tuxedo Rag

Original Tuxedo Jazz Band 1925

Golden Leaf Strut

Original New Orleans Rhythm Kings 1925

Original Jelly Roll Blues

Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1926

Papa De Da Da

Original Bessie Brown 1925

Shake That Thing

Jimmy O’ Bryant’s Famous Original Washboard Band 1926

Royal Garden Blues

Original Wolverines 1927

Casey Bill

Earl McDonald’s Original Louisville Jug Band 1927

Geechee River Blues

Original Washboard Band with Jasper Taylor 1928

Panama

Bunk Johnson’s Original Superior Band 1942

Eh La Bas

Wooden Joe Nicholas’ Original Creole Stompers 1945

Swinging at the Chat & Chew

Original Yellow Jackets 1937

Original Haitian Music

Sidney Bechet, Willie the Lion Smith & their Orchestra 1939

Face the Music 8.09.18

I Got Rhythm Contrafactus:

an hour of jazz compositions

based on the chord progression of

George Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm”

George Gershwin wrote "I Got Rhythm" in 1930 for the Broadway show "Girl Crazy". Louis Armstrong transformed it into a high-energy jazz standard in 1931. After Fats Waller recorded his five alarm stampede version in 1935, the tune became a warhorse jam vehicle for Lionel Hampton, Chick Webb, Bud Freeman and Benny Goodman. Art Tatum set the stage for modern experimentation with his harmonically expanded version of I Got Rhythm in 1940. Thenceforth, the familiar chord progression from Gershwin's cheery toe-tapper began to serve as a sort of launching pad for exciting and increasingly adventuresome compositions like"Cottontail", "Lester Leaps In", "Salt Peanuts", "Anthropology" and the "52nd Street Theme". This week's "Face the Music" broadcast will trace portions of that astonishing musical trajectory, and you're invited.

I Got Rhythm

Bud Freeman Trio  1938

Don’t Be That Way

Chick Webb & his Orchestra 1934

Seven Come Eleven

Benny Goodman Sextet

featuring Charlie Christian 1939

Cottontail

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra

featuring Ben Webster 1940

Lester Leaps In

Lester Young Quintet 1946

Salted Peanuts

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945

52nd Street Theme

Kenny Clarke & his 52nd Street Boys 1946

Dizzy Atmosphere

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945

Celia

Bud Powell Trio 1949

I Got Rhythm

Dick Hyman, Tom Pletcher & their Gang 2013

Flintstones instrumental theme

{unidentified ensemble, YouTube}

Constellation

Charlie Parker All-Stars 1948

Moose the Mooche

Charlie Parker Septet 1946

Thriving on a Riff {Anthropology}

Charlie Parker All Stars 1945

Little Rootie Tootie

Thelonious Monk Trio

Good Bait

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945

Chronology

Ornette Coleman Quartet 1959