Face the Music 3.02.17 - Disorder at the Border No.2

Look What a Fool I’ve Been
James P. Johnson player piano roll 1922

Let the Door Knob Hit You in the Back
Butterbeans and Susie 1926

I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra 1932

I’m Gonna Run You Down
Richard M. Jones Jazz Wizards 1935

You Can’t Play Me Cheap
Papa Charlie’s Boys 
(mandolinist Charlie McCoy) 1936

Police & High Sheriff Come Ridin’ Down
Ollis Martin 1927

The Governor’s Resignation (calypso)
Attila the Hun 1938

You’re Driving Me Crazy
Bunk Johnson 1947

Crazy Blues
Leon Redbone 1977

Clip Joint
Lil Hardin Armstrong 1961

Beat to the Socks
Eddie Condon’s Windy City Seven 1938

Pagin’ the Devil (take two)
Lester Young & the Kansas City Six 1938

Sittin’ On Top of the World
Alex Belhaj’s Crescent City Quartet 2013

Black and Tan Fantasy
Earl Hines with Pee Wee Russell 1966

Disorder at the Border
Coleman Hawkins Orchestra with Dizzy Gillespie 1944

Face the Music 22317
Disorder at the Border (1)

Merry Go Round
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1935

Immigration Blues
Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Orchestra 1926

The Cooks in Trinidad
Wilmoth Houdini with Gerald Clark’s Night Owls 1931

Sedition Law
King Radio 1940

Algerian Cynicism
Kenny Clarke & his Orchestra 1948

Open the Door, Richard
Count Basie & his Orchestra 1947

The Breaks
Albert Ammons & his Rhythm Kings 1944

Scufflin’
Ike Quebec All Stars 1945

Overtime
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra 1944

Queer Street
Count Basie & his Orchestra 1945

Every Man For Himself
Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra 1944

Disorder at the Border
live extended jam in Los Angeles 1947
(participants including Howard McGhee,
Trummy Young, Sonny Criss,
Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray,
Barney Kessel & Hampton Hawes)

Face the Music – 2.16.17 – Money Jungle

index of potentials & probabilities

The Shout

Art Tatum

Celestial Express

Edmond Hall’s Celeste Quartet

Atlanta Rag

Cow Cow Davenport

El Ritmo

Little Brother Montgomery Quintet

Weary Blues

Sidney Bechet’s New Orleans Feetwarmers

Shoot ‘Em in the Pants

Washboard Rhythm Kings

Flat Foot Floogie

Fats Waller & his Continental Rhythm

Skull Duggery

Hot Lips Page & his Band

Minor Drag

New Reformation Jazz Band

Caravan
Ellington, Mingus & Roach

Queer Notions

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra

Chant in the Night

Sidney Bechet & his Orchestra

Ko Ko

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra

Scoops Carry’s Merry

Earl Hines & his Orchestra

Moody’s All Frantic

James Moody & his Modernists

Hollerin’ and Screamin’

Fats Navarro & Eddie Lockjaw Davis

Victory Stride - by James P. Johnson

Concordia Orchestra, Marin Alsop

Money Jungle

Ellington, Mingus & Roach

Face the Music 20917: Strut Your Material

Harlem Strut
James P. Johnson 1921

Strut Your Material
Mamie Smith’s Jazz Hounds 1922

The Darktown Strutter’s Ball
Wilbur C. Sweatman’s Original Jazz Band 1918

Original Charleston Strut
Thomas Morris Past Jazz Masters 1923

Static Strut
Erskine Tate’s Vendome Orchestra 1926

Midnight Strutters
Jimmie O’Bryant’s Famous Original Washboard Band 1925

Golden Leaf Strut
Original New Orleans Rhythm Kings 1925

Oriental Strut
Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five 1926

Alabama Strut
Cow Cow Davenport 1928

Stock Yards Strut
Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals 1926

Mojo Strut
Pickett-Parham Apollo Syncopators 1926

Pig Ankle Strut
Cannon’s Jug Stompers 1928

Chicken Supper Strut
Triangle Harmony Boys 1927

Sugar Foot Strut
Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five 1928

Hip Shakin’ Strut
Jane Lucas & the Hokum Boys 1930

Avenue Strut
Herve Duerson 1929

Strut Miss Lizzie
Eddie Condon & his Band 1939

Face the Music 2.02.17
Hear Me Talkin’ To Ya

Shout ‘Em Aunt Tillie
(Duke Ellington)
played by Marcus Roberts

Viola Lee Blues
(by Noah Lewis)
revisited by Ry Cooder

West End Blues
Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five

Hear Me Talkin’ To Ya
Ma Rainey & her Tub Jug Washboard Band

Bring It With You When You Come
Cannon’s Jug Stompers

Black, Brown & White Blues
Big Bill Broonzy

By Myself
Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam

Plucked Again
Duke Ellington & Jimmy Blanton

Mean To Me
Lester Young Trio

Travelin’ Blues
Slim Gaillard

Ghost of a Chance
Slim Gaillard

Baby Get Lost
Billie Holiday

Wig Blues
Lou Donaldson

Blow Top Blues
Dinah Washington

I’m Gonna Dig Myself a Hole
Arthur Big Boy Crudup

Face the Music 1.26.17

Be Your Natural Self

Hard Time Blues

Harlem Harmony Kings 1921

Worried and Lonesome Blues

James P. Johnson piano solo 1923

Mr. Crump Don’t Like It

{Ain’t Gonna Have It Here}

Beale Street Sheiks 1927

Ma and Pa Poorhouse Blues

Ma Rainey & Papa Charlie Jackson 1928

Poor Man's Blues

Bessie Smith 1928

Non-Skid Tread

Bertha Chippie Hill with

Scrapper Blackwell & Leroy Carr 1929

Easy Come Easy Go Blues

Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wizards 1927

Endurance Stomp

State Street Ramblers 1928

Hard Luck

Floyd Mills & his Marylanders 1929

Whitewash Man {by Jean Schwartz 1908}

Ralph Sutton piano solo 1949

Thou Swell

Tut Soper & Baby Dodds 1944

Be Your Natural Self

Frankie Half Pint Jaxon 1940

Big Cat Little Cat

Dan Burley & his Skiffle Boys 1946

Dive Bomber

Pete Johnson piano solo 1944

Blue’n’Boogie

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet 1945

Chabootie

Gene Ammons 1950

Bikini 

Dexter Gordon 1947