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