Thursday, August 31, 2017

Face the Music: Vintage Live Jams
potentials & probabilities - 8.31.17

Keep Smiling at Trouble
members of the Eddie Condon Mob
live at the St. Regis Hotel 1938
broadcast narrated by Alistair Cooke

Stealing Apples
Ralph Sutton & band featuring Peanuts Hucko
Live at Eddie Condon’s 1960

St. Louis Blues
introduced by W.C. Handy, in person
played by members of the Eddie Condon Mob
live at the St. Regis Hotel 1938
broadcast narrated by Alistair Cooke

Dark Eyes
Lila Lou
Frenesi
Fats Waller & his Rhythm
live at the Panther Room,
Hotel Sherman, Chicago
December 31st 1940

15 Minute Intermission
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra
 Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove N.J. 1940

Take Your Shoes Off, Baby
Hot Lips Page with Lester Young
live performance 1950

Tickle Toe
Lester Young & his Orchestra
live broadcast from Manhattan Center NYC
winter of 1940-‘41

Cotton Tail
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra
live in Indiana, June 1945

Ko Ko
Charlie Parker, Red Rodney,
Al Haig, Tommy Potter, Roy Haynes
live at Carnegie Hall 1949

Ornithology
Hallelujah
Bud Powell Trio at Birdland 1956


Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Face the Music 82417 - No, No and No
with 30 minute pandora prologue for Mike Perini

Black Strap Molasses and Wheat Germ Bread
Jimmy Durante, Danny Kaye,
Jane Wyman & Groucho Marx 1951

Cornfed
cornetist Sylvester Ahola
with Van & his Hotel Half Moon Orchestra 1927

Original Jelly Roll Blues
Wilbur De Paris & the Rampart Street Ramblers 1951

Charleston from Bohislav Martinu’s ballet
La Revue de Cuisine 1927
Performed by the Chicago Pro Musica 1989

Wine Me Up
{Faron Young 1968}
performed by Eugene Chadbourne 1987

Shortnin’ Bread
The Residents 1990

Passions of a Man
Charles Mingus 1961

Eat that Chicken
Charles Mingus 1961

No Name Rag
Harry Roy “The King of Hot-Cha” & his Orchestra 1938

Tain’t Good, Taint’ No Good
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

No Greater Love
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra 1936

Can’t Be Bothered With No Sheik
Rosa Henderson accompanied by James P. Johnson 1931

Dirty No-Gooder Blues
Bessie Smith accompanied by James P. Johnson 1929

No More Jelly Bean Blues
Victoria Spivey {St. Louis 1926}

It Ain’t No Good {part 2}
Charlie McCoy with Chatman’s Mississippi Hot Footers
Peabody Hotel, Memphis 1929

It Ain’t No Lie
Big Joe & his Rhythm 1942

Mama Don’t Allow {No.2}
Washboard Sam {billed as Ham Gravy} 1935

I Ain’t Got No Money Now
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell 1934

Won’t Be a Fool No More
Big Maceo & Tampa Red 1945

No More Doggin’
John Lee Hooker 1960

No Worry Blues
T-Bone Walker 1947

No Rolling Blues
Roy Eldridge in Stockholm 1951

No, No, You Can’t Do Dot, Mon
Jack McVea 1947

No Noise
Charlie Parker with Machito & his Orchestra 1948

Tuesday, August 15, 2017


Radio schematic for 8.17.17
Ninety minutes
of food and culture
for Mike Perini
Including another visit
to the Theatre of “No”

Little Orley’s Adventures as a Cabbage Worm
Uncle Lumpy

‘Ama ‘Ama
Sons of Hawaii

Little Onion
Red Army Choir

Food for Thought & The Armadillo
Flanders & Swann

Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Any More
John Prine

Guv’ment
Big River - original cast recording

No Parking
B.A. Rolfe & his Palais d’Or Orchestra 1928

Feelin’ No Pain
Miff Mole & his Little Molers 1927

Yes! We Have No Bananas
Sidney Bechet with Sammy Price & his Bluesicians 1959

I’ve Got the ‘Yes! We Have No Bananas’ Blues
Eva Taylor & Sidney Bechet with Clarence Williams’ Blue Five 1923

Keeps On Rainin’ (Papa He Can’t Make No Time)
Bessie Smith accompanied by Clarence Williams 1923

That’ll Never Happen No More
Blind Blake 1927

Mama Don’t Allow No Easy Riders Here
Cow Cow Davenport 1928

No No Blues
Curley Weaver 1928

I Ain’t No Ice Man
Lovin’ Sam Theard 1929

No Better For Ya
Babe Matthews with Joe Thomas’ Big Six 1946

Ain’t No Flies On Me
Roy Eldridge & Anita Love in Paris 1950

All That Meat and No Potatoes
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

All That Meat and No Potatoes
Louis Armstrong & his All Stars with Velma Middleton 1955

Ain’t No Meat on de Bone
Champion Jack Dupree 1953

There’s No Salt in Your Snap Beans
Clifton Chenier 1978

No Exit
Mose Allison 1969





Friday, August 4, 2017

Face the Music 8.10.17
No Means No

No Parking
The Cotton Pickers 1929

That’s No Bargain
Red Nichols & his Five Pennies 1926

For No Reason At All in C
Tram, Bix & Eddie
(Frankie Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke and Eddie Lang) 1927

Got No Blues
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra 1927

Ua Like No a Like (Hawaiian novelty)
Kanui & Lula (Paris, 1933)

My Papa Doesn’t Two-Time No Time
Rosa Henderson accompanied by Fletcher Henderson 1924

My Papa Doesn’t Two-Time No Time
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra 1923

Mama Don’t Allow (No.1)
 Washboard Sam 1935

Pay Me No Mind
Ishman Bracey 1929

Trust No Man
Ma Rainey 1926

Baby I Can’t Use You No More
Sippie Wallace with Louis Armstrong &
Clarence Williams’ Blue Five 1924

Ain’t Got No Mama Now
Four Pods of Pepper 1929

No Need You Doggin’ Me
Memphis Minnie 1937

It’s No Fun
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

Ain’t No Business We Can Do
Doctor Clayton 1942

No Blues At All
John Kirby Sextet 1942


Saturday, July 29, 2017

Face the Music 80317: “Just Say No”

No (No, Papa, No)
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra 1928

You’re a No-’Count Triflin’ Man
Butterbeans & Susie 1927

It Ain’t No Good (part one)
Charlie McCoy with
Chatman’s Mississippi Hot Footers 1929

It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More
Gus Cannon 1963

No Mo’ Bench and Board
Wilmoth Houdini with
Gerald Clark’s Night Owls 1931

Don’t Start No Stuff
Harlem Hamfats 1938

There’s No Two Ways About It
Slim Gaillard with
Frankie Newton’s Uptown Serenaders 1937

No Name Jive
Joe Daniels & his Hot Shots 1940

No Soap
Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra 1939

Oh No!
Pee Wee Russell 1958

Three’s No Crowd
Bud Freeman Trio 1938

Never No Lament
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra 1940

Got No Time
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

Ghost of a Chance
Slim Gaillard 1959

No Eyes Blues
Lester Young Sextet 1947

No Figs
Lennie Tristano Sextet with
Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh 1950

Monday, July 24, 2017

Face the Music 7.27.17

Honeysuckle Rose
{a la Bach-Beethoven-Brahms-Waller}
Fats Waller piano solo 1941

Soho
Fats Waller piano solo 1939

Dry Bones
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Don’t Try Your Jive On Me
Fats Waller & his Continental Rhythm 1938

Abercrombie Had a Zombie
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Up Jumped You With Love
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1942

Everybody Loves My Baby
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Piccadilly
Fats Waller piano solo 1939

Pent Up in a Penthouse
Fats Waller & his Continental Rhythm 1938

‘Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Buckin’ the Dice
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Clarinet Marmalade
Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Ain’t Misbehavin’/Two Sleepy People
Waller Jive/Hallelujah
Fats Waller performing solo for V-Disc, September 1943

Flat Foot Floogie
Fats Waller & his Continental Rhythm 1938

Moppin’ and Boppin’
Fats Waller, Zutty Singleton
and the “Beale Street Boys”
Hollywood, January 1943
from the soundtrack
of the motion picture
“Stormy Weather”