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