Saturday, January 25, 2020

Face the Music 1.30.20
Tuba Wrestlers of the 1920s: Third Throwdown


Birmingham Breakdown
Mack Shaw with Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra 1926


Immigration Blues
Mack Shaw with Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra 1926


Flock O’Blues
Min Leibrook with Bix Beiderbeck’s Sioux City Six 1924


Big Boy Blues
Unknown tuba wrestler with Ma Rainey 1927


Foolish Man Blues
June Cole with Bessie Smith 1927


Organ Grinder Blues
Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1928


Bass Ale Blues
Joe Tarto with the Hottentotts
{Red Nichols’ Five Pennies on the Vocalion label} 1926


Jingles
Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1927


Willie the Weeper
Bill Newton with Doc Cook & his 14 Doctors of Syncopation 1927


New St.Louis Blues
Chet Harding with Devine’s Wisconsin Roof Orchestra 1927


Swamp Blues
June Cole with Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra 1927


Kansas City Breakdown
Vernon Page with Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1928


Springfield Stomp
Mack Walker with Cecil Scott & his Bright Boys 1929


I Must Have That Man
Joe Tarto with Joe Venuti’s New Yorkers 1928


Squeeze Me
Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1928


Freeze Out
Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1928


Shake ‘Em Up
Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1927

Saturday, January 18, 2020



Face the Music 1.23.20
Tuba Wrestlers of the 1920s - Second Wrangle

East St. Louis Toodle-oo
Mack Shaw with Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra 1926

Devil’s Serenade
Herman Hoy with Sonny Clay & his Orchestra 1928

Copenhagen
Min Leibrook with Bix Beiderbecke & the Wolverines 1924

Prince of Wails
Louis Chassagne with The Cotton Pickers 1924

Nervous Tension
Milt Hinton with Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1930

Georgia Swing
Bill Benford with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1928

Load of Cole
Billy Taylor & Cozy Cole with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1930

Red Hot Pepper
William Bass Moore with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1928

In a Corner
Mack Walker with Cecil Scott & his Bright Boys 1929

Bass Blues
Unidentified tuba wrestler with Ezra Buzzington’s Rustic Revelers 1928

Paradise Wobble
Cyrus St.Clair with Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Orchestra 1927

Pigs Feet and Slaw
Cyrus St. Clair with Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1929

Cho-King
Bert Holliday with Sonny Clay & the Dixie Serenaders 1931

Bombay
Cyrus St. Clair with Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1929

Alligator Crawl
Bill Newton with Doc Cook & his Fourteen Doctors of Syncopation 1927

Fourth Avenue Stomp
Ivory Johnson with Frank Bunch & his Fuzzy Wuzzies 1927

Here Comes the Hot Tamale Man
Rudolph ‘Sudie’ Reynaud with Cook’s Dreamland Orchestra 1926

Oh Baby
Min Leibrook with Bix Beiderbecke & the Wolverines 1924






Tuesday, January 14, 2020


Face the Music 1.16.20 - Tuba Wrestlers of the 1920s {1}

Burnin’ the Iceberg
Courthouse Bump
Harry Prather with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1929

I’m Looking for a Little Bluebird
Billy Taylor with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1930

Kansas City Stomps
Bill Benford with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1928

Jackass Blues
Bill Benford with Thomas Morris & his Seven Hot Babies 1926

Squeeze Me
Milt Hinton with Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1930

Alligator Crawl
Pete Briggs with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven 1927

Deep Henderson
Bud Scott with King Oliver’s Dixie Syncopators 1926

Chickasaw Stomp
Moses Allen with the Chickasaw Syncopators 1927

Hot Mustard
June Cole with Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1926

Shoe Shiner’s Drag
Bill Benford with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1928

Rock Bottom
Milt Hinton with Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1930

Slow Motion
Vernon Page with Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1928

Shake It and Break It
Lawson Buford with King Oliver & his Orchestra 1930

Boston Skuffle
Lawson Buford with Jabbo Smith’s Rhythm Aces 1929

Charleston is the Best Dance After All
Cyrus St. Clair with Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten 1928

Dog Bottom
Elmer James with Chick Webb & his Orchestra 1929

The Ramble
James Jackson with Paul Howard’s  Quality Serenaders 1929


Saturday, January 4, 2020


Face the Music 1.09.20 Lunar Tunes

At Sundown
Bud Freeman Trio 1938

Alabama Song
Lotte Lenja 1930

Cuban Moon
The Versatile Three 1920

Tubas in the Moonlight
Bonzo Dog Band 1969

Silvery Moon
Buddy Burton 1928

It’s Like Reaching for the Moon
Billie Holiday 1936

Oh, You Crazy Moon
Bea Wain 1939

No Moon At All
Barbara Sutton Curtis 1987

Moonlight on the Ganges
Art Tatum 1955

Moon Rose
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

The Moon Is Low {2}
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

It’s Only a Paper Moon
Art Tatum 1943

East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Wardell Gray 1946

Polka Dots and Moonbeams
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra 1946

Blue Moon
Dizzy Gillespie 1952

How High the Moon
Lester Young Quintet 1950