Playlist: December 17, 2009

[Note: It was "explore the stacks" day. I went into the studio with absolutely nothing in my hands or my head. This is what I came up with....]

Esperanza Spalding * * * Cuerro Y Alma (Body and Soul) * * * Esperanza * * * Heads Up

Evelyn Rubio Y Calvin Owens Orchestra Azul * * * El Gato * * * La Mujer Que Canta Blues * * * n/a

Ambrose Field & John Potter * * * Being Dufay * * * Being Dufay * * * ECM New Series

Leroy Fine [Joel Spiegelman & the Moscow Radio Orchestra] * * * Blue Towers * * * Blue Towers: Symphonic Music of Leroy Fine * * * Delos

Anthony Braxton * * * Cut Three, Side Two * * * New York, Fall 1974 * * * Arista

Bragatissimo * * * Tango III * * * Tango Nuevo * * * North Pacific Music

Max Roach * * * Ezz-thetic * * * + 4 * * * Trip

Oliver Lake Quintet * * * Hat and Beard * * * Dedicated to Dolphy * * * Black Saint

Playlist: December 10, 2009

Jeremy Davenport * * * The Lady Is A Tramp * * * We'll Dance 'Til Dawn * * * Telarc

Louis Armstrong * * * Mack the Knife * * * Jazz Best: 20 Immortal Jazz Standards * * * Music Power

Dinah Washington * * * Me and My Gin * * * Fly Me To the Moon * * * Restoration Hardware

Ella Fitzgerald * * * I've Got You Under My Skin * * * I Get A Kick Out of You * * * Verve

Frank Sinatra * * * I Get A Kick Out of You * * * The Frank Sinatra Collection * * * Deja Vu

Dardanelle * * * It Could Happen To You * * * The 1992 Stash Sampler * * * Stash

Jimmy Scott * * * Darn That Dream * * * But Beautiful * * * Milestone

Allen Toussaint * * * Long, Long Journey * * * The Bright Mississippi * * * Nonesuch

Nat King Cole * * * I Don't Get Around Much Any More * * * Unforgetable * * * Longines Symphonette Recording Society

Louis Armstrong * * * Save It, Pretty Mama * * * Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. 3 * * * JSP

Hoagy Charmichael * * * Stardust * * * Gennett Records Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 * * * Gennett

Playlist: December 2, 2009

Fats Waller * * * Chant of the Groove * * * Ain't Misbehavin' * * * Proper

Count Basie with Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross * * * Swingin' the Blues * * * Sing Along with Basie * * * Routlette

Hank Jones * * * Honeysuckle Rose * * * Ain't Misbehavin' * * * Galaxy

Tony Scott * * * The Lady is a Tramp * * * The Modern Art of Jazz * * * Seeco

Earl Hines * * * Trav'lin Light * * * Fatha * * * Columbia

Charles Mingus * * * Jelly Roll * * * Mingus Ah-Um * * * Columbia

Steve Allen * * * St. Louis Blues * * * Plays the Piano Greats * * * Hamilton

Johnny Maddox * * * It's A Long, Long Way to Tipperary / I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be a Soldier * * * Ragtime Piano 1917 -1918 * * * Dot

Count Basie with Jimmy Rushing * * * How Long Blues * * * Blues by Basie * * * Columbia

Fred Astaire * * * Nice Work If You Can Get It * * * Let's Face the Music and Dance * * * Living Era

Andre Kostelanetz * * * Medley from Girl Talk * * * Kostelanetz Plays Gershwin * * * Columbia

Charlie Howze * * * Drop Me Off in Harlem * * * On the Piano * * * Horchow

Playlist: October 22, 2009

Tony Hollis * * * Cross Cut Saw Blues * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Old Tanner and the Skillet Lickers * * * Soldier's Joy * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Borah Bergman and Stefano Pastor * * * Crescent * * * Live at Tortona * * * Mutable Music

Pony Poindexter Nonet * * * Lanyop * * * Almost Forgotten: Instrumentalists * * * Columbia

Louis Armstrong * * * Royal Garden Blues * * * Ambassador Satch * * * Columbia

Paul Barbarin's New Orleans Stompers * * * Gettsyburg March * * * The Names of Dixieland * * * Baronet

New England Ragtime Ensemble * * * Smokehouse Blues * * * The Road From Rags to Jazz * * * Golden Crest

Duke Ellington * * * Beale Street Blues * * * The Unbooted Character * * * Swing Treasury

JB Floyd, Thomas Buckner, George Marsh * * * He's the Echo Inside the Echo (Improvisation) * * * In Crossing the Busy Street * * * Mutable Music

John Graas * * * Mulliganesque * * * Jazz of the Fifties * * * DECCA

Art Hodes * * * Panama Rag * * * Delmark 55 Years of Jazz * * * Delmark

Playlist: October 8, 2009

Dock Boggs * * * Country Blues * * * Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968 * * * Smithsonian Folkways

Roscoe Holcomb * * * Omie Wise * * * The High Lonesome Sound * * * Smithsonian Folkways

Blind Blake * * * C.C. Pills * * * The Essential Recordings of Blind Blake * * * Indigo

Sidney Bechet * * * Kansas City Man Blues * * * Up A Lazy River * * * Good Time Jazz

Bing Crosby and Jack Teagarden * * * The Birth of the Blues * * * And Some Jazz Friends * * * Decca Jazz

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

The Hokum Boys * * * Gin Mill Blues * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Louis Armstrong * * * There's A Cabin In The Pines * * * The Complete RCA Victor Recordings * * * RCA Victor

Bix Beiderbecke * * * 'Tain't So, Honey, 'Tain't So * * * The Bix Beiderbecke Story: Louisiana * * * Proper

Benny Goodman * * * King Porter Stomp * * * King of Swing * * * Bluebird

Kid Ory * * * Savoy Blues * * * (1927-1947) * * * Document

Hoagy Charmichael and His Pals * * * Friday Night * * * Gennet Records Greatest Hits, Vol. III * * * Gennett

George Lewis * * * Doctor Jazz * * * Delmark: 55 Years of Jazz * * * Delmark

Playlist: September 24, 2009

Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers * * * Hallelujah * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Molly O'Day and the Cumberland Mountain Folks * * * Heaven's Radio * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Wilbur Sweatman * * * Down Home Rag * * * Ragtime to Jazz 1 1912-1919 * * * Timeless

Louis Armstrong * * * Don't Play Me Cheap * * * Complete RCA Victor Recordings * * * RCA Victor

Lawrence Welk's Novelty Orchestra * * * Spiked Beer * * * Gennett Records Greatest Hits Vol III * * * Gennett

Duke Ellington * * * Harlem Speaks * * * Creole Rhapsody * * * Living Era

* * * Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orchestra * * * Caprice Futuristic * * * Music for Moderns * * * Naxos
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Fletcher Henderson * * * Phantom Fantasie * * * Hocus Pocus * * * Bluebird

Original Dixieland Jass Band * * * Tiger Rag * * * Ragtime to Jazz 1 * * *
Timeless

Benny Goodman * * * Tiger Rag * * * Jazz Tribune No. 13 * * * RCA

Lewis Black * * * Spanish Blues * * * A Richer Tradition: Country Blues and String Band Music 1927-1932 * * * JSP

Peatie Wheatstraw * * * Police Station Blues * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Breaux Frerres * * * La Valse Des Yeux Blue (Blue Eyes Waltz) * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Black Cats and The Kitten * * * Step It Up and Go * * * Roots N' Blues Retrospective * * * Legacy

Slim Gaillard * * * Oxydol Highball * * * Black California, Vol. 2 * * * Savoy

Playlist: September 10, 2009

Waring's Pennsylvanians * * * Ice Cream * * * The Roaring Twenties * * * Flapper

Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band * * * Why Cry Blues * * * Gennett Records Greatest Hits * * * Gennett

Eubie Blake * * * Fare Thee Honey Blues * * * Greatest Ragtime of the Century * * * Biograph

Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell * * * Mean Old Train Blues * * * Naptown Blues * * * Orbis

Jelly Roll Morton Trio * * * Smilin' the Blues Away * * * Jelly Roll Morton Vol. 2 * * * JSP

Benny Goodman * * * Stompin' at the Savoy * * * Rare Recordings 1935-1936 * * * LaserLight

Paul Whiteman with George Gershwin * * * Rhapsody in Blue * * * Music for Moderns * * * Naxos

Bix Beiderbecke * * * Futuristic Rhythm * * * Bix Beiderbecke Story: Louisiana * * * Proper

Louis Armstrong * * * Rockin' Chair * * * Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. 4 * * * JSP

Fletcher Henderson * * * Harlem Madness * * * Hocus Pocus * * * Bluebird

Duke Ellington * * * Blue Harlem * * * Creole Rhapsody * * * Living Era

Kid Ory's Sunshine Orchestra * * * Ory's Creole Trombone * * * Kid Ory (1922-1947) * * * Document

Gitfiddle Jim * * * Paddlin' Madeline Blues * * * A Richer Tradition: Country Blues and String Band Music 1927-1932 * * * JSP

Bing Crosby with the Rhythm Boys * * * Mississippi Mud/I Left My Sugar Standing in the Rain * * * Bing: His Legendary Years 1931-1957 * * * MCA