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made of songs by irving berlin

Everybody Step {1921}

Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra 1921

Alexander’s Ragtime Band {1911}

Bessie Smith & her Band 1927

Waiting at the End of the Road {1929}

Thomas Waller 1929

Let Me Sing and I’m Happy {1930}

Waring’s Pennsylvanians 1929

vocal by Fred Waring

& the Three Girlfriends

Mandy {1919}

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1934

Slumming On Park Avenue {1937}

Jimmie Lunceford’s Orchestra 1937

I’ll See You in C-U-B-A {1920}

Dick Hyman 1987

Cheek to Cheek {1935}

Guy Van Duser 1976

A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody {1919}

Eddie Heywood Trio 1951

Always {1925}

Dizzy Gillespie 1953

Let’s Face the Music and Dance {1936}

Chris Connor 1986

How Deep Is The Ocean? {1932}

Coleman Hawkins 1943

Blue Skies {1927}

John Kirby Sextet 1939

Blue Skies (Trumpets No End)

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1943

arrangement by Mary Lou Williams

Russian Lullaby {1927}

Cab Calloway & his Orchestra 1944

You Keep Coming Back Like a Song {1946}

Easy Street Jazz Band 2001

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Bohunkus Blues

Blythe’s Washboard Band 1926

Pump Tillie

Blythe’s Sinful Five 1926

Terrible Blues

Red Onion Jazz Babies 1924

Medley: Benny Frenchy’s Tune/

A Stomp/All That I Ask Is Love

Jelly Roll Morton 1938

It’s Right Here For You

Eddie Condon & his Band 1939

Slow Drag

Cow Cow Davenport 1929

How Come You Do Me Like You Do

Rosa Henderson accompanied by

Fletcher Henderson {no relation} 1924

Ain’t Gonna Run You Down

Jimmy Blythe player piano roll, c.1931

Birmingham Blues

Johnny Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds 1921

The Bumps

Jeanette’s Synco Jazzers 1927

Mortgage Blues {part one}

Frankie Half Pint Jaxon & his Hot Shots 1933

Yes! I’m in the Barrel

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five 1925

Lazy Daddy

Bix Beiderbecke with the Wolverines 1924

Sugar

Adrian Rollini & his Orchestra 1934

Yellow Dog Blues

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1928

King Kong Stomp

Joseph Robichaux

& his New Orleans Rhythm Boys 1933

Wang Wang Blues

Benny Goodman Sextet 1942

Steamin’ and Beamin’

Edmond Hall Swingtet

featuring Harry Carney 1944

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Red Hot!

The Mound City Blue Blowers

recorded almost exactly 89 years ago

on March 13 1924

Ya Gotta Know How to Love

The Goofus Five 1926

Dismal Dan

Jack Purvis & his Orchestra 1930

Put and Take

Joe Venuti’s Blue Four 1930

bass sax & hot fountain pen solos by Adrian Rollini

New Goofy Dust Rag

Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1929

Medley: Eggs in One Basket/

I’d Rather Lead a Band/

Let Yourself Go

mouth organ virtuoso Larry Adler 1936

Keep Smilin’ At Trouble

Bud Freeman Trio 1938

One O’Clock Jump

Sidney Bechet’s

New Orleans Feetwarmers 1940

Bad Tale Boogie

Jay McShann’s Jazzmen 1945

Riffin’ Without Helen

instrumental by

Helen Humes’ backup band

including saxophonists

Willie Smith, Maxwell Davis

& Lester Young 1945

Epistrophy

Kenny Clarke

& his 52^nd Street Boys 1946

Illinois Goes To Chicago

Illinois Jacquet & band

including Emmett Berry

& Shadow Wilson 1946

Topsy

Ike Quebec Swing Seven 1945

Groovin’ High

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet

with Charlie Parker 1945

Stoned

Wardell Gray Quartet 1948

Castle Rock

Al Sears with Johnny Hodges’ Orchestra 1951

Stuffy

Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra

in Hollywood 1945

Jazz Me Blues

Art Pepper

with Red Garland,

Paul Chambers &

Philly Joe Jones 1957

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Medley: Love Me Forever/South American Joe

mouth organ virtuoso Larry Adler

with Fred Hartley’s Orchestra 1935

I Wonder What’s Become of Joe

bass saxophonist Adrian Rollini

& trombonist Abe Lincoln

with the Goofus Five 1926

One Hour

tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins

with the Mound City Blue Blowers 1929

By the Waters of Minnetonka

Zez Confrey player piano roll 1927

Hey Young Fella

bass sax & vibraphonist Adrian Rollini

with Venuti & Lang’s Blue Five 1933

Out of Nowhere

Coleman Hawkins & his All-Star Jam Band 1937

{special request from Bob Brill}

The House of David Blues

Coleman Hawkins

with Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1931

Frenesi

tenor saxophonist Ben Webster

with Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra 1941

I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me

Baritone saxophonist Harry Carney

with Edmond Hall’s Swingtet 1944

I Only Have Eyes For You

Coleman Hawkins Quintet with Roy Eldridge 1944

Sometimes I’m Happy

tenor saxophonist Lester Young’s Quartet 1943

S.P. Blues

tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons with

Albert Ammons’ Rhythm Kings 1947

Turn Right

alto saxophonist Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra 1940

1-2-3-4 Jump

tenor saxophonist Flip Philips’ Nonet 1944

Commercial Eyes

tenor saxophonist Lucky Thompson

with Dodo Marmarosa 1947

Congo Blues

Red Norvo’s Selected Sextet including Dizzy Gillespie,

Charlie Parker & Flip Philips 1945

Flying Home parts 1&2

Illinois Jacquet’s All Stars 1945

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Clarinet Marmalade

Wild Bill Davison & his Commodores 1943

Hot Waters Blues

Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1928

Lookie Lookie Lookie, Here Comes Cookie

Teddy Hill & his Orchestra 1935

Hot Platter

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra 1939

Fish for Supper                                     

Hot Lips Page & his band 1944

“Bean” at the Met

Coleman Hawkins Quintet 1944

Hard Tack

Ike Quebec Swingtet 1944

Hot Biscuits

Jay McShann Septet 1948

Nuts

Roy Eldridge Quartet 1950

Big Butter & Egg Man

Wild Bill Davison & his Commodores 1945

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Again, as many saxophonists as will fit into the hour

San

Frankie Trumbauer with the Mound City Blue Blowers 1924

Terrific Stomp

Jack Washington with Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra 1929

Well All Right Then

Coleman Hawkins Trio 1937

I Got Rhythm

Bud Freeman Trio 1938

Sittin’ In

Chu Berry’s Little Jazz Ensemble 1938

No Soap (A Jitterbug Jamboree)

Julian Dash with Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra 1939

Stompy Jones

Sidney Bechet’s New Orleans Feetwarmers 1940

I’ve Found a New Baby

Charlie Parker with Jay McShann’s Orchestra 1941

Afternoon of a Basie-ite

Lester Young Quartet 1943

Blooey

Earl Bostic, Don Byas, Ike Quebec & Ben Webster

with Hot Lips Page & his Band 1944

Louise

Coleman Hawkins & his Sax Ensemble 1944

Honeysuckle Rose

Ben Webster Quartet 1944

Basement Blues

Carl Wolfe Band plays W.C. Handy

I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’

bass saxophonist Vince Giordano with

Dick Hyman & Tom Pletcher 2003

On the Alamo

baritone saxophonist Bill Miles with

Wild Bill Davison & his Commodores 1945

St. Louis Blues

Gene Ammons with Albert Ammons Rhythm Kings 1947

Two Left Feet

Buddy Tate with Skip Hall’s Band 1945

Diggin’ the Count

Illinois Jacquet on Apollo records 1947

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7 PM Thursday February 21^st 2013

as many saxophonists as will fit into the hour

Shake It and Break It

Sidney Bechet & his New Orleans Feetwarmers 1940

Bouncing Around

Sam Morgan’s Jazz Band 1927

Trumbology

Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra 1927

Swingin’ Without Mezz

Bud Freeman Trio 1938

Honeysuckle Rose

Coleman Hawkins & his All Star Jam Band 1937

Don’t Get Tired

Alix Combelle et son Orchestre 1938

Squatty Roo

Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra 1941

Bootin’ and Swinging

Gene “Honeybear” Sedric & his Orchestra 1946

Warmin’ Up

Leon “Chu” Berry with Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra 1936

Oh! Lady Be Good

Lester Young with a small group led by Count Basie 1936

Texas Shuffle

Herschel Evans with Count Basie & his Orchestra 1938

Cottontail

Ben Webster with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra 1940

It’s Only a Paper Moon

Lester Young Septet 1946

Takin’ Off

Charlie Parker with Sir Charles Thompson’s All Stars 1945

Jim Dawgs

Ike Quebec All-Stars 1945

Be-Bop

Don Byas with Dizzy Gillespie’s Sextet 1945

Hiroshima

Gene Ammons with Albert Ammons’ Rhythm Kings 1947

Jumpin’ at the Woodside

Leo Parker with Illinois Jacquet & band 1947