Tuesday, January 15, 2013


Face the Music
potentials & probabilities
for broadcast of 1.17.13

Savoy Blues
Kid Ory’s Creole Jazz Band 1954

West End Blues
King Oliver & his Orchestra 1929

Yellow Dog Blues
Bessie Smith with Henderson’s Hot Six 1925

What Is This Thing Called Love?
James P. Johnson piano solo 1930

Singin’ the Blues
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra 1931

Undecided
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
Billie Holiday with Frankie Newton’s Orchestra 1939

I Don’t Believe It
Bud Freeman Trio 1938

That’s The Blues Old Man
Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra 1940

Body and Soul
Lester Young Trio 1942

Body and Soul
James Moody and his band
with trumpeter Johnny Coles 1956

Miss Thing {parts 1 & 2}
Count Basie & his Orchestra 1939

Out With the Wrong Woman
Washboard Sam & his Washboard Band 1936

Blue ‘n’ Boogie
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945

Frenesi
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1941


Tuesday, January 8, 2013


Face the Music Thursday 7-8 PM
via WCBN 88.3 FM www.wcbn.org
what I'm hoping to air on 1.10.13


By the Waters of Minnetonka
Zez Confrey
player piano roll 1927

Shreveport Stomps
Jelly Roll Morton
piano solo 1924

Shreveport Farewell
Little Brother Montgomery
piano solo 1936

Honky Tonk Music No.2
Jelly Roll Morton
piano solo 1938

Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave To Me
Albert Nicholas Quartet with Art Hodes 1959

Struttin’ With Some Barbecue
Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five 1927

Jazz Battle
Jabbo Smith’s Rhythm Aces 1929

El Ritmo
Little Brother Montgomery Quintet 1947

Blue Skies
Ben Webster Quartet 1944

I Never Knew
Lester Young Quartet 1943

Swingin’ the Blues
Django Reinhardt 1940

K K Boogie
Henry Red Allen & his Orchestra
featuring Kenny Kersey 1941

Roll ‘Em
Cootie Williams & his Orchestra
with pianist Bud Powell 1944

Blooey
Hot Lips Page & his Band 1944

Boogie in the Basement
Luis Russell & his Orchestra 1945

Bass Goin’ Crazy
Albert Ammons 1939

Study for Player Piano No. 45b
Conlon Nancarrow {by request!}

Thursday, January 3, 2013


potentials & probabilities
{edited afterwards to reflect actualities}

Face the Music             WCBN FM                   January 3rd 2013

Shimmy-Jazz
composed by Erwin Schulhoff in 1922
published in 1925
played by pianist Sherri Jones

Allegro from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
by W.A. Mozart
played on the xylophone by Yoichi Hiraoka, 1940

Sunday
written by Jule Styne
sung by the Keller Sisters & Lynch
with Bix Beiderbecke & Jean Goldkette’s Orchestra 1926

Apple Sauce
Original Capitol Orchestra
recorded in Britain, 1923

Crazy Blues
Eubie Blake
player piano roll

Stack O’Lee Blues
The Washingtonians 1928

Parkway Stomp
Punch Miller with
Al Wynn & his Gutbucket Five 1928

Bolden Style
Bunk Johnson talking & whistling, 1942

Six String Banjo Piece
Sylvester Weaver 1927

I’m Sorry, I Ain’t Got It
Bert Williams 1919

Low Down Blues
Whistler & his Jug Band 1927

Cow Cow Blues
Charlie Segar “Keyboard Wizard Supreme” 1935

19 Ways of Playing a Chorus
Meade Lux Lewis harpsichord solo 1941

Chant in the Night
Sidney Bechet & his Orchestra 1938

Easy Rider
James P. Johnson’s Blue Note Jazzmen 1944

Forget It
Gene Sedric & his Honey Bears 1946

Skater's Waltz
Roland Kirk with Jack McDuff 1961

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Face the Music 12.27.12
Eighth & Last Parcel of Twos
{this is more or less what got aired}

T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do {1922}

Fats Waller & his Rhythm

Sepian Bounce

Jay McShann & his Orchestra 1942

I Tin Whistle At You

Hot Lips Page 1952

Tortilla B Flat
Eddie Condon & his Band 1942

Struttin’ at the Strutters’ Ball
Sam Williams piano roll 1922

Struttin’ at the Strutters’ Ball
Original Memphis Five 1922

You Gotta See Mama Every Night
Gene Fosdick’s Hoosiers 1922

Doin’ the New Low Down
Cab Calloway & the Mills Brothers
with Don Redman’s Orchestra 1932

Blues
Hot Lips Page & Fats Waller
live at Carnegie Hall 1942

Jitterbug Waltz
Fats Waller, his Rhythm & Orchestra 1942

My Melancholy Baby {1912}
Charlie Parker with Diz & Monk

Limehouse Blues {1922}
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra

My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms {1922}
Bud Freeman Trio

Do It Again
Harry Raderman’s Jazz Orchestra 1922

Creole Belles
Sousa’s Band directed by Arthur Pryor 1912

Peaceful Henry
Vess L. Ossman banjo solo 1902

Trombone Sneeze
Sousa’s Band directed by Arthur Pryor 1902

Pepper Steak
Washboard Rhythm Kings 1932

Wednesday, December 19, 2012



Face the Music: Seventh Parcel of Twos to air 12.20.12

Yancey Special
Meade Lux Lewis 1942

Bill Bailey, Won’t You
Please Come Home? {1902}
Dave “Fingers” McKenna

Easy Street
singing trombonist Trummy Young
with Jimmie Lunceford’s Orchestra 1942

Carolina in the Morning {1922}
Jerry Colonna & his Dixieland Band

Under the Bamboo Tree {1902}
sung by Susan La Marche with
Waldo’s Ragtime Orchestra

Memphis Blues {1902}
sung by Katherine Handy
with James P Johnson

Oh Didn’t He Ramble {1902}
played and sung by
Jelly Roll Morton

The Dirty Dozen
Ben Curry 1932

Diga Diga Doo
Mills Brothers 1932

Honeysuckle Rose
Hot Club Frankfurt 1942

It’s a Long Way to Tipperary {1912}
Muggsy Spanier & his Dixieland Band

Trinidad Paseo
Lovey’s Trinidad String Band 1912

Black Diamond Rag
Fred Van Eps 1912

Manuelito Waltz
Lovey’s Trinidad String Band 1912

Sweet Adeline
Peerless Quartet 1912

Grey Skies Around the Corner
Charlie & his Orchestra 1942

You Made Me Love You
Orson Welles
singing to a photograph of Lana Turner, 1942

Sweet Sue
Mills Brothers 1932

Doin’ the New Low Down
Cab Calloway & the Mills Brothers
With Don Redman’s Orchestra 1932

Monday, December 10, 2012


Face the Music 121312
A Sixth Parcel of Twos

Greenwich Witch
Zez Confrey 1922

A Breeze From Alabama
Scott Joplin 1902
played by William Albright

Storyville Blues
Bunk Johnson’s
Original Superior Band 1942

Hawaiian Blues
Johnny Dunn’s
Original Jazz Hounds 1922

Ole Miss Blues
James P. Johnson 1922

Nobody Lied
Broadway Dance Orchestra 1922

Fidgety Feet
Eddie Condon & his Band 1942

Fat Tuesday
Humphrey Lyttelton’s Band 1952

Rumba de Media Noche
Vicente Sigler 1932

Lawd You Made the Night Too Long
Louis Armstrong 1932

Steal Away
Turner Junior Johnson 1942

Friendless Blues
Humphrey Lyttelton’s Band 1952

Keep Your Hands Off My Mojo
Coot Grant and Wesley Wilson 1932

How You Want It Done?
Big Bill Broonzy 1932

Farewell Blues {1922}
Count Basie & his
All-American Rhythm Section 1942

You Took Advantage of Me
Cliff Jackson 1962

Perdido
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1942

Wednesday, December 5, 2012


Face the Music - Potentials & Probabilities
Fifth Parcel of Twos for 12.06.12

Can’t We Get Together?
Joe Sullivan Trio 1952

Never Heard of Such Stuff
Joe Sullivan Trio 1952

No Local Stops           
Ralph Sutton 1952

Don’t Leave Me Daddy
Eddie Condon & Band 1942

Alexander’s Ragtime Band {1912}
Bessie Smith

Champagne Charlie Is My Name
Blind Blake 1932

The Scat Song
Steve Washington & the
Washboard Rhythm Kings 1932

Toot, Toot, Tootsie! {1922}
Oriole Terrace Orchestra 1922

I Wonder Blues
Bailey’s Lucky Seven 1922

Eccentric
Friar’s Society Orchestra 1922

Runnin’ Wild {1922}
The Cotton Pickers 1922

Under the Double Eagle {1902}
Wilbur De Paris & the Rampart Street Ramblers

Fast and Furious
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1932

Lay Your Racket
Sidney Bechet’s New Orleans Feetwarmers 1932

Pickin’ My Way Guitar Mania {part one}
Eddie Lang & Carl Kress 1932

Two Bits {Really Fine}
Fats Waller, his Rhythm & Orchestra 1942

Moten Swing {1932}
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1932

Down Under
Woody Herman & his Orchestra 1942