Playlist: Wednesday, June 15

Paul Schult, "Untitled," watercolor on paper, circa 1950-1960, 8" x 10".

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Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon * * * Juggie Boogie * * * Classic Blues * * * Smithsonian Folkways

James Tisdom * * * Winehead Swing * * * West Coast Down Home Blues * * * Acrobat

Dixieland Jug Blowers * * * Banjoreno * * * Ruckus Juice & Chittlins, Vol. 1 * * * Yazoo

Bill Bojangles Robinson with Don Redman's Orchestra * * * Doin' the New Down-Low Happy Feet * * * Quality

Sammy Price * * * Harlem Parlor Blues * * * Classic Piano Blues * * * Smithsonian-Folkways

Sidney Bechet * * * When the Sun Sets Down South * * * Black Legends of Jazz * * * Decca

Coleman Hawkins acc. by the Ramblers * * * I Wanna Go Back to Harlem * * * The Essential Sides Remastered 1936 - 1939 CD:D * * * JSP

New Orleans Rhythm Kings * * * That's A Plenty * * * Dixieland Jazz CD:4 * * * n/a

The Revelers * * * I'm In Love Again * * * Anything Goes: The Songs of Cole Porter * * * Living Era

Fred Astaire * * * I Used to Be Colorblind * * * Let's Face the Music and Dance Living Era

Kansas City Six * * * Way Down Yonder in New Orleans * * * The Lester Young Story: Lester Leaps In * * * Proper

Victoria Spivey * * * My Handy Man * * * The New York Sessions 1926 - 1935: CD:B * * * JSP

Blind Willi Dunn's Gin Bottle Four * * * Blue Blood Blues * * * The New York Sessions 1926 - 1935 CD:C * * * JSP

Paul Small * * * Fit As A Fiddle * * * The New York Sessions 1926 - 1935 CD:D * * * JSP

Red McKenzie & His Music Box * * * My Syncopated Melody Man * * * The New York Sessions 1926 - 1936 CD:A * * * JSP

Nat King Cole w/ the Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra * * * Crazy But I'm In Love Nat King Cole, Vol. 5 * * * LaserLight

Benny Carter & His Orchestra * * * Sweet Georgia Brown * * * Big Band Jazz Jubilee Sessions * * * Hindsight

Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy * * * Wednesday Night Hop * * * Big Band Jazz Jubilee Sessions * * * Hindsight

Johnny Otis & His Orchestra * * * J.T. Stomp * * * Big Band Jazz Jubilee Sessions * * * Hindsight

Wilbert Baranco & His Orchestra * * * Bugle Call Rag * * * Big Band Jazz Jubilee Sessions * * * Hindsight

Gerald Wilson & His Orchestra * * * On the Alamo * * * Big Band Jazz Jubilee Sessions * * * Hindsight

Tiny Bradshaw & His Orchestra It's Sand, Man Big Band Jazz Jubilee Sessions * * * Hindsight

Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop Big Band Jazz Jubilee Sessions * * * Hindsight

Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals * * * Star Dust * * * Hoagy Carmichael: The First of The Singer Songwriters * * * JSP

Louis Armstrong * * * Rockin' Chair * * * Hoagy Carmichael: The First of the Singer Songwriters * * * JSP

Mildred Bailey * * * Snowball * * * Hoagy Carmichael: The First of the Singer Songwriters * * * JSP

Hoagy Carmichael & Ella Logan * * * Two Sleepy People * * * Hoagy Carmichael: The First of the Singer Songwriters * * * JSP

Carmichael's Collegians * * * March of the Hoodlums * * * Hoagy Carmichael: The First of the Singer Songwriters * * * JSP

Bix Beiderbecke * * * Clementine (From New Orleans) * * * The Bix Beiderbecke Story: Singin' the Blues * * * Proper

Bix Beiderbecke * * * Royal Garden Blues * * * The Bix Beiderbecke Story: In A Mist * * * Proper

Bix Beiderbecke * * * Jubilee * * * The Bix Beiderbecke Story: Mississippi Mud * * * Proper

Carolina Chocolate Drops / Luminescent Orchestrii * * * Short Dress Gal * * * EP * * * Nonesuch

Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three * * * Pack It Up * * * 7" Single * * * Third Man

Playlist: Wednesday, June 8

Eddie Condon and unidentified piano player

Wolverine Orchestra * * * Riverboat Shuffle * * * Hoagy Charmichael: First of the Singer Songwriters CD:A * * * JSP

Bix Beiderbecke * * * Trumbology * * * Singin' the Blues * * * JSP

Ben Pollack & His Park Central Orchestra * * * Buy, Buy For My Baby * * * The Indespensable Jack Teagarden * * * RCA

Louis Armstrong * * * Bessie Couldn't Help It * * * Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. 4 * * * JSP

Jack Purvis & His Orchestra * * * Poor Richard * * * Coleman Hawkins: The Essential Sides Remastered 1929 - 1933 * * * JSP

Mound City Blue Blowers * * * Georgia * * * Eddie Condon: Makin' Friends * * * JSP

Fred Astaire * * * Let's Face the Music & Dance * * * Let's Face the Music & Dance * * * Living Era

Hoagy Charmichael with The Casa Loma Orchestra * * * Thanksgiving * * * Hoagy Charmichael: First of the Singer Songwriters CD:D * * * JSP

Django Reinhardt with Coleman Hawkins * * * Honeysuckle Rose * * * Django with His American Friends * * * Disques Swing

Miff Mole & His Dixieland Jazz Band * * * How Come You Do Me? * * * Eddie Condon: We Called It Music * * * JSP

Charlie Parker * * * Ooh Bop Sh'bam * * * Complete Royal Roost Performances on Savoy * * * Savoy

T.J. Fowler & His Rockin' Jump Band * * * Red Hot Blues * * * Stompin' at the Savoy: Red Hot Blues 1948 - 1951 * * * Savoy

Bud Freeman & His Windy City 5 * * * Keep Smilin' At Trouble * * * Eddie Condon: Let's Swing It * * * JSP

Mildred Bailey with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra * * * Lazy Bones * * * Hoagy Charmichael: First of the Singer Songwriters CD:C * * * JSP

Coleman Hawkins Trio * * * Way Down Yonder in New Orleans * * * The Essential Sides Remastered CD:B * * * JSP

Charles Mingus * * * These Foolish Things * * * Central Avenue Sounds, Vol. 3 * * * Rhino

Robert Johnson * * * Ramblin' On My Mind * * * The Complete Recordings * * * Columbia-Legacy

Bukka White * * * Strange Place Blues * * * Legends of Country Blues: Bukka White * * * JSP

Skoodle Dum Doo & Sheffield * * * Gas Ration Blues * * * East Coast Blues * * * Orbis

Tommy Johnson * * * Alcohol & Jake Blues * * * Legends of Country Blues: Tommy Johnson * * * JSP

Fats Waller with Eddie Condon * * * Minor Drag * * * Eddie Condon: Makin' FriendsMakin' Friends * * * JSP

Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra * * * Ain't Misbehavin' * * * The Indispensable Jack Teagarden * * * RCA

Charles Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs * * * Butter Finger Blues * * * Jazz the World Forgot * * * Yazoo

Bix Beiderbecke * * * There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears * * * The Bix Beiderbecke Story: Mississippi Mud * * * Proper

Ted Lewis Jazz Band * * * Blues (My Naughty Baby Gave Me) * * * Ragtime to Jazz 1: 1912 - 1919 * * * Timeless

Eddie Condon * * * A Good Man Is Hard To Find * * * Eddie Condon: Tappin' the Commodore Till * * * JSP

Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra featuring Boots Castle * * * The Hour of Parting * * * Chronological Teddy Wilson: 1937 * * * Classics

Benny Goodman * * * Georgia Jubilee * * * Coleman Hawkins: The Essential Sides Remastered * * * JSP

Bix Beiderbecke * * * In My Merry Oldsmobile * * * The Bix Beiderbecke Story: In A Mist * * * JS

Irving Mills & His Hotsy-Totsy Gang * * * Barbaric * * * Hoagy Charmichael: The First of the Singer Songwriters CD:B * * * JSP

Robin McKelle * * * Cry Me A River * * * Mess Around * * * Doxie

Playlist: Wednesday, May 18

Django Reinhardt by Jean Cocteau

T-Bone Walker * * * Call It Stormy Monday * * * Central Avenue Sound * * * Rhino

Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday * * * Mean To Me * * * 1937 * * * Classics

Edna Watson * * * Pail In My Hand * * * Jazz the World Forgot, Vol. 2 * * * Yazoo

Dabney's Band * * * Slow Drag Blues * * * Ragtime to Jazz 1912 - 1919 * * * Timeless Historical

Tommy Johnson & the New Orleans Nehi Boys * * * The Black Mare * * * Legends of Country Blues * * * JSP

Blind Blake * * * Depression Gone From Me Blues * * * East Coast Blues * * * Orbis

Teresa Brewer * * * Music! Music! Music! * * * Your Hit Parade 1950 * * * Time Life

Django Reinhardt & Eddie South * * * I Can't Believe You're In Love With Me * * * Django with His American Friends * * * DRG

Charlie Parker * * * Anthropology * * * The Complete Live Performances on Savoy * * * Savoy

Nat King Cole w/ the Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra * * * Stompin' Down Broadway * * * The Trio Recordings, Vol. 5 * * * LaserLight

Frank Sinatra * * * Night and Day * * * The Golden Greats * * * Deja Vu

Hoagy Charmichael * * * Two Sleepy People * * * Hoagy Sings Charmichael * * * Pacific Jazz

Bukka White * * * Good Gin Blues * * * Legends of Country Blues * * * JSP

Pokey Lafarge & the South City Three * * * Pack It Up * * * 7" single * * * Third Man

Billy Wright * * * Stacked Deck * * * Stompin' at the Savoy: Red Hot Blues 1948 - 1951 * * * Savoy

Pee Wee Crayton & His Guitar * * * Blues After Hours * * * Central Avenue Sound

"Robert Johnson: The Centennial Celebration" Presented on Wednesday Morning, May 11, on KWUR.com

"The Scientific Method" will present "Robert Johnson: The Centennial Celebration" on Wednesday, May 11, at 9:00 a.m. (CST) on 90.3 FM KWUR.com.

In this one-hour radio special, you'll hear of the man and the times in which he lived, the myth of his "deal with the devil" at the crossroads, and the music he created through interviews with Stephen Johnson, Robert Johnson' grandson and vice president of the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation, musicians Corey Harris and Warren Haynes, and writers Peter Guralnick and Scott Barretta.

Playlist: Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Blind Blake * * * Southern Rag * * * East Coast Blues * * * Orbis

Friscoe Jazz Band * * * Night-Time in Little Italy * * * Ragtime to Jazz 1912 - 1919 * * * Timeless

Five Hot Chocolates * * * Alabama Shuffle * * * Jazz the World Forgot * * * Yazoo

Jack Teagarden * * * Futuristic Rhythm * * * The Indispensable Jack Teagarden (1928 - 1957) * * * RCA

Coleman Hawkins w/ Django Reinhardt * * * Blue Moon * * * Django with His American Friends * * * DRG

Teddy Wilson * * * Fine and Dandy * * * Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra 1937 * * * Classics

Charlie Patton * * * Rattlesnake Blues * * * King of the Delta Blues * * * Yazoo

Bukka White * * * Shake 'Em On Down * * * Legends of Country Blues * * * JSP

Robert Johnson * * * Phonograph Blues * * * The Complete Recordings * * * Columbia-Legacy

Robert Johnson * * * Stop Breakin' Down Blues * * * The Complete Recordings * * * Columbia-Legacy

Ella Fitzgerald & Paul Smith * * * One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) * * * Intimate Ella * * * Verve

Frank Sinatra * * * Bewitched * * * The Golden Greats * * * deja vu

Teddy Edwards Quartet * * * Blues in Teddy's Flat * * * Central Avenue Sound * * * Rhino

Charlie Parker with George Freeman * * * Keen and Peachy * * * The Complete Live Performances on Savoy * * * Savoy

Helen Humes with the Dexter Gordon Orchestra * * * Helen's Advice * * * Stompin' at the Savoy: Red Hot Blues 1948 - 1951 * * * Savoy

Nat King Cole * * * Gone with the Draft * * * The Trio Recordings, Vol. 5 * * * Laserlight

Playlist: Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Mark McGrain of Plunge

Hot Lips Page * * * I Got Rhythm * * * After Hours in Harlem * * * High Note

Jackie McLean * * * Let's Face the Music and Dance * * * Swing, Swang, Swingin' * * * Blue Note

Charlie Parker Septet * * * Ornithology * * * BeBop's Greatest Hits * * * Rhino

Duke Henderson * * * Get Your Kicks * * * West Coast Jive * * * Delmark

Mel Torme & Artie Shaw * * * Guilty * * * Dynamic Duos: Memorable Meetings in Jazz * * * Drive

Dizzy Gillespie * * * He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped * * * A Taste of Tradition, Vol. 3 * * * Tradition

Fats Waller & His Rhythm Boys * * * Honeysuckle Rose * * * Traditional Jazz Classics * * * Rhino

Jim Cooper * * * Bemsha Swing * * * Nutville * * * Delmark

Jason Ajemian * * * Your Shirts * * * The Art of Dying * * * Delmark

Myra Melford Trio * * * The Death of Danny Love * * * The October Revolution * * * Evidence

Danny Sher * * * Improv Selection 1 * * * Loose Nukes * * * n/a

Plunge * * * Missing Mozambique * * * Dancing on Thin Ice * * * Immersion

Playlist: Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Larry Davis * * * Giving Up On Love * * * Evidence Blues Sampler, Too * * * Evidence

Johnny Copeland * * * Don't Stop By The Creek, Son * * * Honky Tonkin' * * * Bullseye Blues Classics

Earl Hooker * * * Rockin' With the Kid * * * Blue Guitar * * * Paula

Papa Harvey Hull * * * France Blues * * * Before the Blues, Vol. 1 * * * Yazoo

Speckled Red * * * Pinetop's Boogie Woogie * * * Classic Piano Blues * * * Smithsonian-Folkways

Blind Gary Davis * * * Lord, I Wish I Could See * * * Preaching the Gospel * * * Columbia-Legacy

Geoff Bartley * * * Occam's Razor * * * Put the Big Stone Down * * * MCR

Memphis Slim * * * Stewball * * * The Folkways Years 1959 - 1973 * * * Smithsonian-Folkways

Tiny Watkins * * * Soldier's Sad Story * * * The Excello Story, Vol. 4 * * * Hip-O

Tennesse Chocolate Drops * * * Vine Street Drag * * * Before the Blues, Vol. 2 * * * Yazoo

Blind Boy Fuller * * * Cat Man Blues * * * East Coast Piedmont Style * * * Columbia-Legacy

Little Brother Montgomery * * * Boogie * * * Chicago Piano 1951 - 1958 from Cobra & JOB * * * Paula

Jimmy Forrest * * * All the Gin is Gone * * * Delmark 40th Anniversary -- Jazz * * * Delmark

Jimmy Smith * * * Tuition Blues * * * Dot.Com Blues * * * Verve