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

Playlist: Wednesday, April 6

Bill Evans

James Cole's Washboard Four * * * Runnin' Wild * * * A Richer Tradition * * * JSP

Memphis Jug Band * * * Move That Thing * * * Walk Right In * * * Orbis

Short Creek Trio * * * Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane * * * Alabama Stringbands * * * Document

Bob Moseley * * * Baggin' the Boogie * * * California Blues * * * Acrobat

Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight * * * Franklin Street Blues * * * Dixieland Jazz * * * n/a

Johnny Mercer & Jack Teagarden * * * The Old Music Master * * * Too Marvelous for Words: 24 Songs of Johnny Mercer * * * Living Era

Bill Evans * * * Waltz for Debbie * * * You're Gonna Hear From Me * * * Milestone

Bill Evans Trio * * * Turn Out the Stars * * * Since We Met * * * Fantasy

Pinetop Perkins * * * Five Years * * * Live Top * * * Deluge

Rum Drum Ramblers * * * If It Have to Be * * * Mean Scene * * * Lightnin' Thunders

Sidney Bechet * * * Four or Five Times * * * Up A Lazy River * * * Good Time Jazz

Playlist: Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Paul Schult, "Jazz at the Savoy," circa 1953, acrylic(?) on paper, 8" x 10".

Quintus McCormick Blues Band * * * Plano Texas Blues * * * Hey Jodie * * * Delmark

Jimmy McCracklin * * * Street Loafin' Woman * * * West Coast Down Home Blues * * * Acrobat

Clarence "Jelly" Johnson * * * Corn Trimmers * * * Low Down Papa * * * Delmark

George Carter * * * Ghost Woman Blues * * * A Richer Tradition: Country Blues and String Band Music 1928 - 1938 * * * JSP

Rum Drum Ramblers * * * Gonna Haunt You * * * Mean Scene * * * Lightnin' Thunders

Duke Ellington * * * Harlem Airshaft * * * Piano in the Background * * * Columbia/Legacy

Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra * * * Muggles Hot Fives and Sevens, Vol. 3 * * * JSP

Claude Hopkins * * * On the Sunny Side of the Street * * * Swingville * * * Original Jazz Classics

Bing Crosby * * * Let's Do It Let's Fall In Love * * * Anthing Goes: The Songs of Cole Porter * * * Living Era

The Skillet Lickers * * * Devlish Mary * * * Old Time Fiddle Tunes and Songs from North Georgia * * * County

Memphis Jug Band * * * Caveman Blues * * * Walk Right In: Memphis Jug Bands * * * Orbis

Tampa Red * * * You Can't Get That Stuff No More * * * Blues in History II * * * History

J.B. Hutto * * * Evening Train * * * Delmark 55 Years of Blues * * * Delmark

Cecil Gant * * * Blues in L.A. * * * California Blues * * * Acrobat

Eli Paperboy Reed * * * Pick Your Battles * * * Come and Get It! * * * Capitol

Louis Armstrong * * * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * * * I've Got the World on a String * * * Verve