Face the Music 2.27.20

Black is Beautiful

African Ripples

Fats Waller

Ripples of the Nile

Tom Roberts plays Luckey Roberts

Sweet Like a Honey Bee

Wilmoth Houdini

Shango {Cocoa Lute}

recorded in Granada

African Love Call

The Devil Behind Me

Wilmoth Houdini

Egyptian Fantasy

Sidney Bechet

La Plus Belle Africaine

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra

Afrique

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra

Fleurette Africane

Ellington-Mingus-Roach

Algerian Cynicism

Kenny Clarke

Cleopatra Rumba

Machito & his Afro-Cubans

A Night in Tunisia

Dizzy Gillespie

Sahara Heat

Illinois Jacquet

Face the Music 2.13.20 - Weasel Walk

Bop & R&B tenor saxophonists 1946-48

Fly Mister Fly

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1946

Jam for Sam

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1947

Wilma’s Idea

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1946

Macomba Jump

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1947

Out of the Night

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1946

Slumber {Blues at Twilight}

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1947

Lowe Groovin’

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Hey Tom Archia

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1948

Jump with Me

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

McKie’s Jam for Boppers

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1948

Mad Moon

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Come Back to Sorrento

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1948

Easy Riff

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Bronzeville Swing

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1948

The Spider

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Bottletop

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1947

Downfall Blues {Whiskey}

Tom Archia & his All Stars 1947

Weasel Walk

Little Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris & his Orchestra 1948

The Battle

Tom Archia & his All Stars with Gene Ammons 1948

Face the Music 2.06.20

Cornet Chop Suey

Cornet Chop Suey

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five 1926

King Porter

Joe Oliver & Jelly Roll Morton 1924

Play That Thing

Tommy Ladnier with Ollie Powers’ Harmony Syncopators 1923

Stock Yards Strut

Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals 1926

Dunn’s Cornet Blues

Johnny Dunn Trio 1924

Squeeze Me

Willie Hightower with Lottie Hightower’s Nighthawks 1927

Baby Doll

Joe Smith with Bessie Smith 1926

Georgia Grind

Thomas Morris & his Seven Hot Babies 1927

That’s No Bargain

Red Nichols & his Five Pennies 1926

Davenport Blues

Bix & his Rhythm Jugglers 1925

Singin’ the Blues

Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer 1927

Relaxin’ at the Touro {take two}

Muggsy Spanier 1939

Ja-Da

Bobby Hackett with Eddie Condon’s Windy City Seven 1938

Poor Bubber

Rex Stewart & his Orchestra 1941

Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me/Dr. Jazz

Anthony Braxton/Stewart Gillmor Duo 1993

Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams

Wild Bill Davison & his Commodores 1946

Face the Music 1.30.20

Tuba Wrestlers of the 1920s: Third Throwdown

Birmingham Breakdown

Mack Shaw with Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra 1926

Immigration Blues

Mack Shaw with Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra 1926

Flock O’Blues

Min Leibrook with Bix Beiderbeck’s Sioux City Six 1924

Big Boy Blues

Unknown tuba wrestler with Ma Rainey 1927

Foolish Man Blues

June Cole with Bessie Smith 1927

Organ Grinder Blues

Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1928

Bass Ale Blues

Joe Tarto with the Hottentotts

{Red Nichols’ Five Pennies on the Vocalion label} 1926

Jingles

Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1927

Willie the Weeper

Bill Newton with Doc Cook & his 14 Doctors of Syncopation 1927

New St.Louis Blues

Chet Harding with Devine’s Wisconsin Roof Orchestra 1927

Swamp Blues

June Cole with Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra 1927

Kansas City Breakdown

Vernon Page with Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1928

Springfield Stomp

Mack Walker with Cecil Scott & his Bright Boys 1929

I Must Have That Man

Joe Tarto with Joe Venuti’s New Yorkers 1928

Squeeze Me

Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1928

Freeze Out

Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1928

Shake ‘Em Up

Cyrus St. Clair with Clarence Williams & his Orchestra 1927

Face the Music 1.23.20

Tuba Wrestlers of the 1920s - Second Wrangle

East St. Louis Toodle-oo

Mack Shaw with Duke Ellington & his Kentucky Club Orchestra 1926

Devil’s Serenade

Herman Hoy with Sonny Clay & his Orchestra 1928

Copenhagen

Min Leibrook with Bix Beiderbecke & the Wolverines 1924

Prince of Wails

Louis Chassagne with The Cotton Pickers 1924

Nervous Tension

Milt Hinton with Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1930

Georgia Swing

Bill Benford with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1928

Load of Cole

Billy Taylor & Cozy Cole with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1930

Red Hot Pepper

William Bass Moore with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1928

In a Corner

Mack Walker with Cecil Scott & his Bright Boys 1929

Bass Blues

Unidentified tuba wrestler with Ezra Buzzington’s Rustic Revelers 1928

Paradise Wobble

Cyrus St.Clair with Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Orchestra 1927

Pigs Feet and Slaw

Cyrus St. Clair with Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1929

Cho-King

Bert Holliday with Sonny Clay & the Dixie Serenaders 1931

Bombay
Cyrus St. Clair with Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1929

Alligator Crawl

Bill Newton with Doc Cook & his Fourteen Doctors of Syncopation 1927

Fourth Avenue Stomp

Ivory Johnson with Frank Bunch & his Fuzzy Wuzzies 1927

Here Comes the Hot Tamale Man

Rudolph ‘Sudie’ Reynaud with Cook’s Dreamland Orchestra 1926

Oh Baby

Min Leibrook with Bix Beiderbecke & the Wolverines 1924

Face the Music 1.16.20 - Tuba Wrestlers of the 1920s {1}

Burnin’ the Iceberg

Courthouse Bump

Harry Prather with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1929

I’m Looking for a Little Bluebird

Billy Taylor with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1930

Kansas City Stomps

Bill Benford with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1928

Jackass Blues

Bill Benford with Thomas Morris & his Seven Hot Babies 1926

Squeeze Me

Milt Hinton with Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1930

Alligator Crawl

Pete Briggs with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven 1927

Deep Henderson

Bud Scott with King Oliver’s Dixie Syncopators 1926

Chickasaw Stomp

Moses Allen with the Chickasaw Syncopators 1927

Hot Mustard

June Cole with Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1926

Shoe Shiner’s Drag

Bill Benford with Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers 1928

Rock Bottom

Milt Hinton with Tiny Parham & his Musicians 1930

Slow Motion

Vernon Page with Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1928

Shake It and Break It

Lawson Buford with King Oliver & his Orchestra 1930

Boston Skuffle

Lawson Buford with Jabbo Smith’s Rhythm Aces 1929

Charleston is the Best Dance After All

Cyrus St. Clair with Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten 1928

Dog Bottom

Elmer James with Chick Webb & his Orchestra 1929

The Ramble

James Jackson with Paul Howard’s  Quality Serenaders 1929

Face the Music 1.09.20 Lunar Tunes

At Sundown

Bud Freeman Trio 1938

Alabama Song

Lotte Lenja 1930

Cuban Moon

The Versatile Three 1920

Tubas in the Moonlight

Bonzo Dog Band 1969

Silvery Moon

Buddy Burton 1928

It’s Like Reaching for the Moon

Billie Holiday 1936

Oh, You Crazy Moon

Bea Wain 1939

No Moon At All

Barbara Sutton Curtis 1987

Moonlight on the Ganges

Art Tatum 1955

Moon Rose

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1936

The Moon Is Low {2}

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1939

It’s Only a Paper Moon

Art Tatum 1943

East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Wardell Gray 1946

Polka Dots and Moonbeams

Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra 1946

Blue Moon

Dizzy Gillespie 1952

How High the Moon

Lester Young Quintet 1950