Face the Music 9.10.15

A Second Handful of Fives

Tomato Sauce

Fred Longshaw piano solo 1925

It Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo’

Josie Miles & Elmer Snowden 1925

Davenport Blues

Bix & his Rhythm Jugglers 1925

Money Blues

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1925

O Katharina

Sam Wooding’s Chocolate Dandies – Berlin, 1925

Bajan Girl

Lionel Belasco piano solo 1915

Devil Behind Me, Leggo

Wilmoth Houdini

& the Calvary Bamboo Orchestra 1935

Jungle Drums

James P. Johnson piano solo 1945

La Cucaracha

Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra 1935

Whose Honey Are You?

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

Harlem Joys

Willie the Lion Smith & his Cubs 1935

Swingin’ ‘Em Down

Freddie Jenkins Harlem Seven 1935

Merry Go Round

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1935

Honky Tonk Train Blues

Meade Lux Lewis piano solo 1935

Dizzy Atmosphere

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945

Popity Pop

Slim Gaillard with Bird & Diz 1945

Takin’ Off

Dexter Gordon with

Sir Charles Thompson & his All Stars 1945

Tea for Two

Lennie Tristano

with the Emmett Carls Sextet 1945

Luckey Roberts

Face the Music 9.03.15

First Flush of Fives

{1^st of 18 programs focusing on

music written, published, recorded

in years ending with the numeral 5}

Spanish Venus

played by 86 year old Eubie Blake

composed in 1905 by Luckey Roberts

Suitcase Blues

Hersal Thomas 1925

St. Louis Blues

Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong 1925

Steel String Blues

Sylvester Weaver 1925

Yes! I’m in the Barrel

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five 1925

Midnight Special

Sodarisa Miller

accompanied by Jimmy Blythe 1925

New Orleans Shags

Richard M. Jones’ Three Jazz Wizards 1925
with Albert Nicholas & Johnny St. Cyr

Come On, Coot, and Do That Thing

Coot Grant, Kid Wesley Wilson

& Louis Armstrong

with Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1925

I’m a Hundred Per Cent for You

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

The Lady in Red

Louis Prima’s New Orleans Gang 1935

with Pee Wee Russell

Pelican Stomp

Cleo Brown 1935

Growlin’

Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra 1935

The Sheik

Willie Bryant & his Orchestra 1935

Baby Brown
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1935

Nagasaki

Cab Calloway & his Orchestra 1935

Scoops Carry’s Merry

Earl Hines & his Orchestra 1945

with Wardell Gray

Blue ‘n’ Boogie

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945

with Dexter Gordon

Groovin' High
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945
with Charlie Parker

Face the Music 8.27.15
Honoring Max Kaminsky, Eddie Condon & Art Hodes
in memory of Hazen Schumacher & Dave Crippen

Mammy O'Mine
Eddie Condon & his Band 1942

Lonesome Tag Blues
Eddie Condon & his Band 1942

Tortilla B Flat
Eddie Condon & his Band 1942

More Tortilla B Flat
Eddie Condon & his Band 1942

Nobody's Sweetheart Now
Art Hodes' Blue Five 1944

Squeeze Me
Art Hodes' Blue Note Jazzmen 1944

M.K. Blues
Art Hodes' Back Room Boys 1944

Blue Interlude
The Chocolate Dandies 1933

Apex Blues
Art Hodes' Blue Five 1944

Slow 'Em Down Blues
Art Hodes' Chicagoans 1944

Shake That Thing
Art Hodes' Blue Five 1944

There'll Be Some Changes Made
Art Hodes' Chicagoans 1944

Sweet Georgia Brown
Art Hodes' Blue Note Jazzmen 1944

That Eccentric Rag
Art Hodes Trio 1945