Saturday, December 28, 2019


Face the Music 1.02.20: Roamin’ Around

King Porter Stomp
Teddy Bunn 1940

Parlor Social
Don Ewell 1947

Buddy’s Habits
Bucktown Five 1924

Roamin’ Around
The Stompin’ Six 1925

Ostrich Walk
Bix & Tram 1927

Mo’lasses
Tom Roberts plays Luckey Roberts 1999

Honeysuckle Rose
George Lewis Ragtime Jazz Band 1953

Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
Dick Hyman live at Chung's Chinese Restaurant, Cleveland -1985

All Too Soon
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra
featuring Ben Webster 1940

If I Had You
Alix Combelle Hot Four 1938

Don’t Blame Me
Coleman Hawkins All-American Four 1944

Sometimes I’m Happy
Lester Young Quartet 1943

Tea for Two
Art Tatum 1952

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


Friday, December 20, 2019


Face the Music 12.26.19: ninety minute program

Want a Danish
Van Morrison 1967

Satanic Blues
Original Dixieland Jazz Band 1919

Slide Kelly Slide {1889}
Wilbur Sweatman’s Jazz Band 1919

Look At ‘Em Doing It
Original Dixieland Jazz Band 1919

Get The ‘L’ On Down The Road
Frankie Half Pint Jaxon 1929

The Dirty Dozen
Speckled Red 1929

Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
Clarence Pinetop Smith 1929

Let’s Get Loose
Clara Smith 1929

Plain Dirt
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers 1929

Bluin’ the Blues
Muggsy Spanier’s Ragtime Band 1939

Tiger Rag
Sam Wooding’s Chocolate Dandies - Barcelona 1929

Hold Tight
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

The Little Brown Jug {1869}
John Kirby Sextet 1939

O Dem Golden Slippers {1889}
Fats Waller 1939

Satan
Moore’s Spiritual Singers 1939

You’ll Need Somebody On Your Bond
Blind Willie Johnson 1929

Shake It and Break It {But Don’t Let It Fall Mama}
Charley Patton 1929

Shout Sister Shout
Arthur Crudup 1949

609 Boogie
John Lee Hooker 1949

Jim Jackson’s Jamboree
Jim Jackson & friends 1929

Cafe Society Rag
Joe Turner with Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis & Pete Johnson 1939

Piccadilly {from the London Suite}
Fats Waller 1939

Stuff
Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders
featuring Lionel Hampton 1929

Tain’t What You Do
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

Changes in Boogie Woogie
Albert Ammons 1939

Portia’s Boogie
Joe Morris featuring Elmo Hope & Johnny Griffin 1949

Jump Did-Le-Ba
Dizzy Gillespie & his Orchestra with Joe BeBop Carroll & Yusef Lateef 1949

Sunday, December 15, 2019


Face The Music 12.19.19
Nine-ology: 1919-29-39-49

Tea For Two
Fats Waller 1939

Evening Chimes Waltz
Herve Duerson 1929

After You’ve Gone
The Versatile Four 1919

Everybody Does It in Hawaii
King Oliver’s Orchestra with Roy Smeck 1929

Guitar Chimes
Blind Blake 1929

Blues For Tommy
Sidney Bechet & the Port of Harlem Seven 1939

Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday 1939

St. Louis Blues
Fats Waller 1939

Twos and Fews
Albert Ammons & Meade Lux Lewis 1939

Heifer Dust
Will Ezell 1929

Mint Julep
Jelly Roll Morton 1929

Rumba Negro
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1929

Rose Rumba
Willie the Lion Smith-Sidney Bechet Orchestra 1939

Market Street Stomp
The Missourians 1929

Won’t You Get Up Off It Please
Fats Waller & his Buddies 1929

The Moon Is Low
Fats Waller & his Rhythm
{broadcast transcription} 1939

Lady Bird
Ted Heath & his Music 1949


Saturday, December 7, 2019

FTM 12.12.19 - Ridin’ But Walkin’

Solace
Scott Joplin 1909/William Albright 1989

Summertime
Sidney Bechet & the Port of Harlem Seven 1939

Let Your Light Shine On Me
Blind Willie Johnson 1929

Goin’ Home
Art Tatum 1949

She’s Funny That Way
Bud Freeman & Jess Stacy 1939

Ridin’ But Walkin’
Fats Waller & his Buddies 1929

Weird and Blue
Jabbo Smith’s Rhythm Aces 1929

Winin’ Boy Blues
Jelly Roll Morton 1939

Fine and Mellow
Billie Holiday & her Orchestra 1939

Cherry Red
Big Joe Turner with Pete Johnson’s Boogie Woogie Boys 1939

Oh! Red
“Count Basie at the piano” 1939

Bass Goin’ Crazy
Albert Ammons 1939

Barrelhouse Breakdown
Pete Johnson’s Blues Trio 1939

Nagasaki
Albert Ammons & Meade Lux Lewis 1939

Nagasaki
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939


Friday, November 29, 2019


Face the Music 12.05.19
core sample: 1909-1949

Maple Leaf Rag
United States Marine Band 1909

I Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None Of This Jelly Roll
Wilbur Sweatman’s Jazz Band 1919

That’s Got ‘Em
James Reese Europe’s 369th Infantry Hellfighters Band 1919

Tickle Britches Blues
Richard M. Jones Jazz Wizards 1929

Frank Stokes’ Dream
Frank Stokes 1929

Blind Arthur’s Breakdown
Blind Blake 1929

Pennsylvania Woman Blues
Six Cylinder Smith 1929

Pratt City Blues
Bertha Chippie Hill 1929

Hot Lovin’
Barrelhouse Five Orchestra 1929

Duet Stomp
Jones-Collins Astoria Hot Eight 1929

Seattle Hunch
Jelly Roll Morton piano solo 1929

New Orleans Shout
King Oliver & his Orchestra 1929

At the Jazz Band Ball
Sidney Bechet’s Blue Note Jazzmen 1949

Black and Blue
Muggsy Spanier’s Ragtime Band 1939

After You’ve Gone {No.2}
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

Cole Slaw
Louis Jordan’s Tympany Five 1949

Cole Slaw
Lou Donaldson 1964

Euphoria
Ted Heath & his Music 1949


Thursday, November 28, 2019

Face the Music 11.28.19
as actuated - two hour program of historic marvels

St. Louis Blues
Babs Gonzales 1949

Elevation
Elliott Lawrence Orchestra
arrangement by Gerry Mulligan 1949

After You’ve Gone
Lester Young at the Royal Roost 1949

Oh! Well
James Moody 1949

Ko Ko
Charlie Parker at Carnegie Hall 1949

Cherokee
Bud Powell Trio 1949

The Bird
Charlie Parker 1949

Marshmallow
Warne Marsh & Lee Konitz 1949

Tea Pot
J.J. Johnson 1949

Lemon Drop
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra 1949

Small Black
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1929

Aunt Jemima Stomp
Kansas City Tin Roof Stompers 1929

New Goofy Dust Rag
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1929

Maple Leaf Rag
Scott Joplin 1899 - Eubie Blake 1969

Semper Fidelis
Eubie Blake 1969

New Era Rag
James Scott 1919 - William Bolcom

Grace and Beauty Rag
James Scott 1909 - Turk Murphy’s Jazz Band

Buffalo Rag
by Tom Turpin - Vess L. Ossman’s 1909 realization

Clarinet Squawk
Louisiana Five 1919

Toboggan
Premier régiment de Guides de Bruxelles 1909

‘Round the Corner
Dabney’s Band 1919

Broken Idol
California Ramblers 1929

The Moon Shines on the Moonshine
Bert Williams 1919

Sunburst: Rag Two-Step
James Scott player piano roll 1909  

It’s Tight Like That
West End Blues
Zack Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels 1929

Moonlight Blues
Charlie’s Idea {Tiger Rag}
Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders 1929

Do Shuffle
Fess Williams’ Royal Flush Orchestra 1929

Havin’ a Ball
James P. Johnson & his Orchestra 1939

Dzhosef {Joseph, Joseph}
A.N. “Bob” Tsfasman Orkestr, Leningrad 1939

Pol Volman {Over the Waves}
Leonid Utjesov Orkestr, Moscow 1939