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