Face the Music 3.12.20: Hawk’s Variations

St. Louis Shuffle - Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1927

Darktown Strutters Ball - Mound City Blue Blowers 1931

Bessemer Bound Blues - Ma Rainey & her Georgia Band 1926

Poor Richard - Jack Purvis & his Orchestra 1930 

Dark Clouds - Hawkins & Allen Orchestra 1933

Heartbreak Blues - Coleman Hawkins Orchestra 1933 

Queer Notions - Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1933

Lady Be Good - Coleman Hawkins with Stanley Black Trio 1934

Honeysuckle Rose - Coleman Hawkins & his All Star Jam Band 1937

Bouncing with Bean - Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra 1939

Dinah - Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra 1939

Feedin’ the Bean - Count Basie & his Orchestra 1941

The Man I Love - Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra 1943

Hawk’s Variations - Coleman Hawkins unaccompanied 1945

I Mean You - Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra 1946

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

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

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