Face the Music 8.01.19

Back to the Land

The Chrysanthemum - an Afro-American Intermezzo

Scott Joplin 1904

performed by William Albright

Sunflower Slow Drag

Scott Joplin & Scott Hayden 1901

performed by Richard Zimmerman

Frog-I-More Rag

Jelly Roll Morton 1924

I’m Looking for a Little Blue Bird

Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1930

If Someone Would Only Love Me

Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1930

Warm Valley

Ellington & his Famous Orchestra

featuring Johnny Hodges & Rex Stewart 1940

Back to the Land

Lester Young Trio 1946

Pagin’ the Devil

Lester Young with the Kansas City Six 1938

Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground

Blind Willie Johnson 1927

Strange Fruit

Billie Holiday with Frank Newton’s Orchestra 1939

Back Water Blues

Dinah Washington with Eddie Chamblee’s Orchestra 1958

Red Boy at the Mardi Gras

Todd Rhodes & his Toddlers 1949

Overhand {New Froggy Bottom}

Mary Lou Williams Trio 1936

Cabbage Greens No.1

Champion Jack Dupree 1940

Brainville

Sun Ra & his Arkestra 1956