Face the Music 11.01.18

First Sampling of Eights

Crazeology

Bud Freeman & his Orchestra 1928

Clarinetitis

Benny Goodman Trio 1928

Rhythm King

Bix Beiderbecke & his Gang 1928

Who’s Blue Now?

Waring’s Pennsylvanians 1928

Oh! Baby

Eddie Condon Quartet 1928

Blue Piano Stomp

Johnny Dodds Trio 1928

A Monday Date

Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five 1928

Ready for the River

Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra 1928

Slow Motion

Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1928

The Mooche

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1928

Beat to the Socks

Eddie Condon & his Windy City Seven 1938

Don’t Try Your Jive On Me

Fats Waller & his Continental Rhythm 1938

Morning Feeling {aka Honeysuckle Rose}

Alix Combelle & the Hot Club Swing Stars 1938

Every Tub

Count Basie & his Orchestra 1938

Epistrophy

Thelonious Monk Quartet 1948

Barbados

Charlie Parker All Stars 1948

Stoned

Wardell Gray Quartet 1948

The Fuller Bop Man

James Moody’s Modernists 1948

Face the Music 10.25.18 - From the Gutter to the Crossroads

A Selection from the Gutter

Art Hodes 1939

Alley Rat

Jimmy Blythe 1928

Mule Get Up in the Alley

Cannon’s Jug Stompers 1929

Put Me in the Alley Blues

Chicago Hottentots 1926

Throw Me in the Alley

Peetie Wheatstraw & his Blue Blowers 1934

Back in the Alley

Cow Cow Davenport 1929

Down the Alley

Tampa Red’s Hokum Jug Band 1928

Back Alley Rub

O’Bryant’s Washboard Band 1925

Madison Street Rag

Gus Cannon {as Banjo Joe} with Blind Blake 1927

Decatur Street Drag

Eddie Mapp & Guy Lumpkin 1929

Shady Lane Blues

Clifford Hayes’ Louisville Stompers 1929

Wylie Avenue Blues

Halfway House Orchestra 1928

Wilkins Street Stomp

Speckled Red 1929

Get the El on Down the Road

Frankie Half Pint Jaxon with

Bill Johnson’s Louisiana Jug Band 1929

Cross Road Blues

Robert Johnson 1936

Key to the Highway

Big Bill Broonzy 1956

Jack Hits the Road

Jack Teagarden with Bud Freeman’s Famous Chicagoans 1940

Lonesome Road

Valaida Snow 1945

Face the Music 10.18.18

Avenues & Thoroughfares

Armour Avenue Struggle

Jimmy Blythe 1924

The Gouge of Armour Avenue

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra 1924

Lenox Avenue Blues

Fats Waller pipe organ solo 1926

Fourth Avenue Stomp

Frank Bunch & his Fuzzy Wuzzies 1927

Avenue Strut

Herve Duerson 1929

Indiana Avenue Stomp

Montana Taylor 1929

I’m Slapping Seventh Avenue with the Sole of My Shoe

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1939

Saturday Night on Texas Avenue

Three Fifteen and his Squares 1937

Slumming on Park Avenue

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra 1937

Seventh Avenue

Trummy Young & his All Stars 1945

Summit Ridge Drive

Artie Shaw’s Gramercy Five 1940

Sixth Avenue Express

Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson 1941

Central Avenue Breakdown

Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra 1941

Parisian Thoroughfare

Bud Powell 1951

Parisian Thoroughfare

Roland Kirk with the Jaki Byard Experience 1968

Face the Music 10.11.18: Hitting the Streets III

Dumaine Street Drag

George Lewis with Kid Shots Madison 1944

Gravier Street Blues

Johnny Dodds 1940

Rampart & Gravier Blues

Harlem Hamfats 1937

South Rampart Street Blues

New Orleans Blue Five 1926

Kater Street Rag

Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1925

On the Sunny Side of the Street

Billie Holiday 1944

Eighteenth & Racine

The Fat Babies 2013

Texas Easy Street Blues

Henry Thomas 1928

Good Old Easy Street

Washboard Sam 1949

Easy Street

Trummy Young with Jimmie Lunceford’s Orchestra 1942

Easy Street

Thelonious Monk 1968

East Thirty Second

Lennie Tristano 1955

Straight Street

John Coltrane 1957