potentials & probabilities

Face the Music 5.16.13

Fats Waller III

Please Take Me Out of Jail

Thomas Waller

with Morris’s Hot Babies 1927

Fats Waller Stomp

Thomas Waller

with Morris’s Hot Babies 1927

Won’t You Take Me Home

Thomas Waller

with Morris’s Hot Babies 1927

Sweet Savannah Sue

piano solo 1929

Beale Street Blues

accompanying Alberta Hunter

on the pipe organ, 1927

Willow Tree

Louisiana Sugar Babes 1928

I’m Goin’ to See My Ma

accompanying Alberta Hunter

on the pipe organ, 1927

‘Sippi

Louisiana Sugar Babes 1928

Sloppy Water Blues

pipe organ solo 1927

Love Me or Leave Me

piano solo 1929

Handful of Keys

piano solo 1929

What’s the Use of Being Alone?

Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds 1928

Dunn's Original Bugle Blues

Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds 1928

Ain’t Misbehavin’

piano solo 1929

Thou Swell

Louisiana Sugar Babes 1928

Persian Rug

Louisiana Sugar Babes 1928

Chicago Blues

Jimmy Johnson & his Orchestra 1928

Mournful Tho’ts

Jimmy Johnson & his Orchestra 1928

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Do It Mr. So and So

player piano roll 1924

You Get Mad

vocal by Rosa Henderson 1926

Loveless Love

pipe organ solo 1927

Cryin’ For My Used To Be

duo player piano roll

with James P. Johnson 1927

What’s the Matter Now?

vocal by Rosa Henderson 1926

Blue Black Bottom Stomp

piano solo 1927

Henderson Stomp

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1926

Whiteman Stomp

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1927

The Chant

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1926

I’m Coming Virginia

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1927

Sugar

vocal Alberta Hunter 1927

Numb Fumblin’

piano solo 1929

Red Hot Dan

{Waller’s first recorded vocal!}

Thomas Waller with Morris’s Hot Babies 1927

Savannah Blues

Thomas Waller with Morris’s Hot Babies 1927

He’s Gone Away

Thomas Waller with Morris’s Hot Babies 1927

Beale Street Blues

pipe organ solo 1927

Geechee

Thomas Waller with Morris’s Hot Babies 1927

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Fats Waller part 1  

Young Fats in the Twenties

Muscle Shoals Blues

piano solo 1922

Birmingham Blues

piano solo 1922

Haitian Blues

player piano roll 1923

T’aint Nobody’s Bus’ness If I Do

vocal by Sara Martin 1922

St. Louis Blues

pipe organ solo 1926

Stingaree Blues

vocal by Alberta Hunter 1923

Lenox Avenue Blues

pipe organ solo 1926

Your Time Now

{‘Twill Be Mine After a While}

player piano roll 1923

Sister Kate

vocal by Anna Jones 1923

What Do You Know About That?

vocals by Clarence Williams & Joe Sims 1927

I’m Cert’ny Gonna See About That

vocals by Clarence Williams & Sara Martin 1923

Shut Your Mouth

vocals by Clarence Williams & Joe Sims 1927

Soothin’ Syrup Stomp

pipe organ solo 1927

Squabbling Blues

vocals by Clarence Williams & Sara Martin 1923

In Harlem’s Araby

vocal by Porter Grainger 1924

You Don’t Know My Mind Blues

Jamaica Jazzers 1924

West Indies Blues

Jamaica Jazzers 1924

Wild Cat Blues
player piano roll 1928

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Crazy Rhythm

Fascinating Rhythm
Dick Hyman & Tom Pletcher 2003

Crazy Rhythm

Cliff Jackson 1961

Crazy Rhythm
Roger Wolfe Kahn & his Orchestra 1928

Crazeology
Bud Freeman & his Chicago Five 1928

Radio Rhythm
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra 1931

I'm Rhythm Crazy Now
Horace Henderson & his Orchestra 1933

Crazy Rhythm
Coleman Hawkins' All Star Jam Band 1937

Rendezvous with Rhythm
Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra 1937

Spreadin' Rhythm Around
Billie Holiday 1935

Mr. Rhythm Man
Tampa Red 1938

Laughin' in Rhythm
Slim & Slam 1938

Drum Stomp (Crazy Rhythm)
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra 1937

I Got Rhythm
Bud Freeman Trio 1938

Circus in Rhythm
Lester Young with Earl Warren's Orchestra 1944

Rockin' in Rhythm parts 1 & 2
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra 1946

Crazy Rhythm
Coleman Hawkins 1943

Crazy Rhythm
Django Reinhardt 1953

 Crazy Rhythm {alt take}

Cliff Jackson 1961

Crazy Rhythm

Cliff Jackson 1961

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potentials & probabilities

Fascinating Rhythm   

Fascinating Rhythm

Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra 1924

Florida Rhythm

Ross De Luxe Syncopators 1927

Futuristic Rhythm

Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra 1929

Four Four Rhythm

Paul Tremaine & his Aristocrats 1929

That Rhythm Man

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1929

Spreadin’ Rhythm Around

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

Grand Terrace Rhythm

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra 1936

I’m On a Sit-Down Strike for Rhythm

Lil Hardin Armstrong & her Orchestra 1937

Rhythm of the Tambourine

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra 1937

Rhythm, Rhythm

Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra 1937

Buck Dance

J.W. Jones & Ephram Carter

body percussion, field recording 1970

Buck Dance Rhythm

Slim & Slam 1938

I Got Rhythm

Red Feather Trio live in Milwaukee 1943

I Got Rhythm

Lester Young with Dickie Wells 1943

Play House No.2 {I Got Rhythm}

Buddy Tate with Count Basie’s Orchestra 1945

Estrad Swing {Roy’s Got Rhythm}

Roy Eldridge in Stockholm 1951

I Got Rhythm

Dick Hyman, Tom Pletcher & their Gang 2003

All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm

Bud Powell Trio 1949

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Rhythm Venture

written by Zez Confrey {1935}

played by Eteri Andjaparidze

Blue Rhythm Fantasy

Teddy Hill & his NBC Orchestra 1937

Rhythm Saved the World

Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra 1936

Rhythm King

Bix Beiderbecke & his Gang 1928

Rhythm of the Day

Red Nichols with Ross Gorman & his

Earl Carroll Orchestra 1925

Old Man Rhythm

Tony Parenti, clarinet

Vick Briedis, piano 1929

Chicago Rhythm

Earl Hines & his Orchestra 1928

Ridin’ in Rhythm

Mills Blue Rhythm Band 1933

Rock It in Rhythm

Tampa Red & the Chicago Five 1938

Rockin’ In Rhythm

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1931

I Got Rhythm

The Spirits of Rhythm 1933

More Rhythm

Lonnie Johnson 1941

He Ain’t Got Rhythm

Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson 1937

Rhythm and Romance

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

Mr. Rhythm Man

The Cats & the Fiddle 1940

I Got Rhythm

Gene Sedric & his Honeybears 1946

Rhythm Boogie

Albert Ammons 1947

Rhythm-a-ning

Thelonious Monk 1963

Face the Music 4.04.13

for Richard Whiting {1891-1938}

& Hoagy Carmichael {1899-1981}

Cosmics

Hoagy Carmichael piano solo 1933

Riverboat Shuffle {Carmichael 1924}

Bix Beiderbecke & the Wolverines 1924

Boneyard Shuffle {Carmichael 1925}

Red Nichols & his Five Pennies 1926

Gather Lip Rouge While You May {Whiting 1933}

Joe Venuti & his Orchestra 1933

Miss Brown to You {Whiting 1935}

Billie Holiday 1935

Lazy River {Carmichael 1931}

Bechet-Spanier Big Four 1940

Small Fry {Carmichael 1938}

Hot Lips Page 1938

Two Sleepy People {Carmichael 1938}

Fats Waller 1943

Sleepy Time Gal {Whiting 1925}

Jimmie Lunceford’s Orchestra 1935

Japanese Sandman {Whiting 1920}

Dicky Wells et son Orchestre

avec Django Reinhardt 1937

Ukulele Lady {Whiting 1925}

Jim Kweskin Jug Band 1965

She’s Funny That Way {Whiting 1928}

Bud Freeman-Jess Stacy Duo 1939

Louise {Whiting 1929}

Lester Young-Teddy Wilson Quartet 1956

Too Marvelous For Words {Whiting 1937}

Lester Young Quartet live at Birdland 1951

Beyond the Blue Horizon {Whiting 1930}

Coleman Hawkins Quintet 1944