Face the Music 4.04.19

Fourth Radio Ruminations for Jim Dapogny

Relaxin’

Willie the Lion Smith 1958

Blues from Lenox Avenue

written by William Grant Still 1936

played by Denver Oldham 1991

Echoes of Harlem {Cootie’s Concerto}

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1936

The Call of the Blues

Sidney De Paris’ Blue Note Jazzmen 1944

Don’t You Leave Me Here

Dick Wellstood, Kenny Davern & Bob Rosengarden 

{“The Blue Three”}1981

Save It, Pretty Mama

Sidney Bechet’s New Orleans Feetwarmers 1940

Crying for the Carolines

James P. Johnson 1930

Shy and Sly

Luckey Roberts 1946

Take It From Me

Ralph Sutton Trio 1951

Singin’ the Blues

Eddie Condon & his Dixieland Band 1955

Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home?

Pee Wee Russell’s Rhythmakers 1938

Short Story

James Dapogny’s Chicago Jazz Band 1994

St. Louis Blues

Art Tatum 1940

Easy Street

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra 1941

Blue Skies

Ben Webster 1944