Face the Music 3.05.20 

Duke Ellington - Pigmentations {1927-1967}

Black Beauty {1928}

Black & Tan Fantasy {1927}

Yellow Dog Blues {1928}

Brown Berries {1927}

Blue Bubbles {1927}

Mood Indigo {1930}

Diminuendo in Blue {1937}

Crescendo in Blue {1937}

Work Song: Black {1944}

Ridin’ on a Blue Note {1940}

Blue Goose {1940}

Blue Serge {1941}

Blue Cellophane {1944}

My Little Brown Book {1967}

December Blue {1953}

Blue Bird of Delhi: Mynah {1966}

Face the Music 2.27.20

Black is Beautiful

African Ripples

Fats Waller

Ripples of the Nile

Tom Roberts plays Luckey Roberts

Sweet Like a Honey Bee

Wilmoth Houdini

Shango {Cocoa Lute}

recorded in Granada

African Love Call

The Devil Behind Me

Wilmoth Houdini

Egyptian Fantasy

Sidney Bechet

La Plus Belle Africaine

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra

Afrique

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra

Fleurette Africane

Ellington-Mingus-Roach

Algerian Cynicism

Kenny Clarke

Cleopatra Rumba

Machito & his Afro-Cubans

A Night in Tunisia

Dizzy Gillespie

Sahara Heat

Illinois Jacquet

Face the Music 2.13.20 - Weasel Walk

Bop & R&B tenor saxophonists 1946-48

Fly Mister Fly

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1946

Jam for Sam

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1947

Wilma’s Idea

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1946

Macomba Jump

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1947

Out of the Night

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1946

Slumber {Blues at Twilight}

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1947

Lowe Groovin’

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Hey Tom Archia

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1948

Jump with Me

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

McKie’s Jam for Boppers

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1948

Mad Moon

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Come Back to Sorrento

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1948

Easy Riff

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Bronzeville Swing

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1948

The Spider

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Bottletop

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Downfall Blues {Whiskey}

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1947

Weasel Walk

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1948

The Battle

Tom Archia & his All Stars with Gene Ammons 1948

Face the Music 2.06.20

Cornet Chop Suey

Cornet Chop Suey

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five 1926

King Porter

Joe Oliver & Jelly Roll Morton 1924

Play That Thing

Tommy Ladnier with Ollie Powers’ Harmony Syncopators 1923

Stock Yards Strut

Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals 1926

Dunn’s Cornet Blues

Johnny Dunn Trio 1924

Squeeze Me

Willie Hightower with Lottie Hightower’s Nighthawks 1927

Baby Doll

Joe Smith with Bessie Smith 1926

Georgia Grind

Thomas Morris & his Seven Hot Babies 1927

That’s No Bargain

Red Nichols & his Five Pennies 1926

Davenport Blues

Bix & his Rhythm Jugglers 1925

Singin’ the Blues

Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer 1927

Relaxin’ at the Touro {take two}

Muggsy Spanier 1939

Ja-Da

Bobby Hackett with Eddie Condon’s Windy City Seven 1938

Poor Bubber

Rex Stewart & his Orchestra 1941

Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me/Dr. Jazz

Anthony Braxton/Stewart Gillmor Duo 1993

Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams

Wild Bill Davison & his Commodores 1946