Face the Music 5.04.17

Gut Stomp

James P. Johnson

Sneakaway

Willie the Lion Smith

Nothin’

Luckey Roberts

Harlem Choc’late Babies on Parade

James P. Johnson

Your Time Now

Fats Waller

Harlem Strut

James P. Johnson

Muscle Shoals Blues

Fats Waller

Birmingham Blues

Fats Waller

St. Louis Blues

Fats Waller

The Chant

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra

Alligator Crawl

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven

Thou Swell

Louisiana Sugar Babes

Henderson Stomp

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra

Blue Black Bottom Stomp

Fats Waller

What’s the Use of Being Alone?

Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds

Wringin’ and Twistin’

Tram, Bix and Lang

Farewell Blues

James P. Johnson

Face the Music 4.27.17: Latch On

James P. Johnson Medley
Eubie Blake piano solo

Hesitation Blues
James P. Johnson’s New York Orchestra

Call of the Freaks
Luis Russell & his Orchestra

Lenox Avenue Blues
Fats Waller pipe organ solo

Wasted Life Blues
Bessie Smith
accompanied by James P. Johnson

Kazoo Moan
Washboard Serenaders

You Don’t Know My Mind
The Jamaica Jazzers

Blues in the Cave
Sidney Bechet avec
Claude Luter et son Orchestre

Latch On
Dick Wellstood & the Friends of Fats

Complainin’
Luckey Roberts piano solo

Relaxing
Willie the Lion Smith piano solo

The Dream
James P. Johnson’s New York Orchestra

The Boogie Dream
James P. Johnson’s New York Orchestra

Chasin’ the Blues Away
Claude Hopkins & his Orchestra

Stomp in F
George Shearing piano solo

Crazy Rhythm
Cliff Jackson piano solo

Face the Music 4.20.17 - Ingenuity

Euphonic Sounds
James P. Johnson
(composed by Scott Joplin)

Valentine Stomp
Fats Waller

Whiteman Stomp
Fats Waller with
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra
(composed and arranged by Fats Waller)

Tidal Wave
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra

Panama
Luis Russell & his Orchestra

It’s Glory
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra

There’s No Two Ways About It
Frankie Newton & his Orchestra
vocal by Slim Gaillard

Farewell Blues
Claude Hopkins & his Orchestra

I Only Have Eyes For You
Sidney Bechet & Martial Solal

Main Stem
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra

The Shout
Art Tatum

Boff Boff (Mop Mop)
Coleman Hawkins with
Leonard Feather’s Esquire All Stars

Tickle Toe
Count Basie & his Orchestra
(composed by Lester Young)

It’s Only a Paper Moon
Lester Young

Klacktoveesedsteene
Charlie Parker

Overtime
Victory Ball
Metronome All Stars with
Charlie Parker & Lennie Tristano

Face the Music - 4.13.17 - Let’s Get Loose

potentials & probabilities

Long Time Ago

Little Brother Montgomery Quintet 1947

Big City Blues

Edmond Hall Swingtet

with Harry Carney &  Benny Morton 1944

Blow, Wind, Blow

Wilmoth Houdini

with Lionel Belasco’s Orchestra 1930

Meningitis Blues

Memphis Minnie & the Memphis Jug Band

recorded in Memphis, 1930

Let’s Get Loose

Clara Smith 1929

Save Me Some

Palooka Washboard Band 1937

Echoes of Harlem

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra 1936

Harlem Air Shaft

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra 1940

West End Blues

Cootie Williams & Bud Powell

introduced by actor Canada Lee 1944

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Lee

Perdido

When My Baby Left Me

Royal Garden Blues

Roll ‘Em

Bud Powell with Cootie Williams & his Orchestra 1944

Smack Me

Air Mail Special

One O’Clock Jump

Cootie Williams Sextet

with Bud Powell, Cleanhead Vinson & Lockjaw Davis 1944

Tin Tin Deo

James Moody’s Modernists with Chano Pozo 1948

Face the Music 4.06.17

“Til Times Get Better”

Diddie Wah Diddie

Blind Blake

Truckin’ My Blues Away

Blind Boy Fuller

Yes! I’m in the Barrel

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five

Alley Rat

Jimmy Blythe

Michigan Water Blues

Clarence Williams

Bull Fiddle Rag

Midnight Rounders

In the Bottle Blues

Clarence Williams Blue Five

One Hour

Mound City Blue Blowers with Coleman Hawkins

Root Hog or Die

Harlem Hamfats

Right String, Wrong Yo-Yo

Speckled Red

Til Times Get Better

Jabbo Smith’s Rhythm Aces

The Last Time I Saw Chicago

Three Deuces

The Crave

Jelly Roll Morton

Aunt Hagar’s Blues

Art Tatum

St. Louis Blues

Art Tatum

Elvin’s Guitar Blues

Elvin Jones & Richard Davis with Frank Foster

The Ragman and the Junkman

Ran from the Businessman

They Laughed and He Cried

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Face the Music 3.30.17: Call of the Freaks

Diddie Wah Diddie

Leon Redbone 1977

The Judge, He Pleaded {Viola Lee Blues}

Hammie Nixon 1984

West Indies Blues

Jamaica Jazzers

{kazoo duo accompanied by Fats Waller} 1924

Dry Bone Shuffle

Blind Blake 1927

Call of the Freaks

The Rhythm Kings 1931

Carpet Alley Breakdown

Dixieland Jug Blowers 1926

Don't Drink It In Here

Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon with

Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band 1929

Memphis Shake

Dixieland Jug Blowers 1926

Bugle Call Rag

Cannon's Jug Stompers 1928

Buddy Burton's Jazz

Johnny Dodds with

Blythe's Washboard Band 1926

Jazz It Blues

Alabama Jug Band

vocal by the Ham & Cabbage Trio 1934

Goin' Nuts

Six Jolly Jesters - Duke Ellington group

featuring Teddy Bunn, Bruce Johnson

& members of the Washboard Rhythm Kings 1929

I Got Good Taters

Picaninny Jug Band 1932

Selling the Jelly

Noah Lewis' Jug Band 1930

He's in the Jailhouse Now

Memphis Jug Band 1930

Hen Party Blues

Dixieland Jug Blowers 1926

Polka Dot Stomp

Sidney Bechet with Bob Wilber's Wildcats 1947

Pork & Beans

James P. Johnson 1938

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Change
Sam Nowlin 1934

I Had It But It’s All Gone Now
Sidney Bechet with Bob Wilber’s Wildcats 1947

Bull-Doze Blues
Henry Thomas 1928

WPA Blues
Casey Bill Weldon 1936

Coo Coo Stomp
D.C. Nelson’s Paramount Serenaders 1927

Don’t You Loud Mouth Me
Cow Cow Davenport 1938

New Block & Tackle Blues
Rhythm Willie & his Gang 1940

Struggling
Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wonders 1926

Down and Out Blues
The Stompin’ Six 1925

Let the Punishment Fit the Crime
Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra 1939

Menelik, the Lion of Judah
Rex Stewart 1941

Hiroshima
Albert Ammons & his Rhythm Kings 1947

Twilight in Turkey
Teddy Hill’s NBC Orchestra 1937

Loose Wig
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra 1944

Scufflin’
Ike Quebec All Stars 1945

Disorder at the Border
Coleman Hawkins 1962