Playlist: Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three will be playing the Whitaker Music Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden on Wednesday, August 3. Music begins at 7:30 p.m.; free admission after 5 p.m.

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Scott Peters Quartet * * * Big Red * * * Scott Peters Quartet * * * N/A

Stan Getz * * * Ebony Samba * * * Bossa Nova * * * Verve

Jay McShann & Charlie Parker * * * Sepia Bounce * * * Black Legends of Jazz * * * Decca

Cab Calloway * * * Black Rhythm * * * Kicking the Gong Around * * * Living Era

Bing Crosby * * * So Tall A Tree * * * Good & Rare * * * Sepia

Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman * * * Let's Do It * * * Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman * * * Columbia-Legacy

Paul Broadaux * * * The Comeback * * * Here's To Jazz * * * N/A

Bob Hope & Bing Crosby * * * Heine & Moe's (Buttons & Bows) * * * Thanks for the Memory * * * Living Era

Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra * * * Shower * * * Big Band Jazz: the Jubilee Sessions 1943 - 1946 * * * Hindsight

Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra * * * Blowin' the Blues Away * * * Big Band Jazz: the Jubilee Sessions 1943 - 1946 * * * Hindsight

Duke Ellington & His World Famous Orchestra * * * The Canteen Bounce * * * Big Band Jazz: the Jubilee Sessions 1943 - 1946 * * * Hindsight

Earl Hines & His Orchestra * * * Stompin' at the Savoy * * * Big Band Jazz: the Jubilee Sessions 1943 - 1946 * * * Hindsight

International Sweethearts of Rhythm * * * Blue Lou * * * Big Band Jazz: the Jubilee Sessions 1943 - 1946 * * * Hindsight

Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra * * * Three Bones * * * Big Band Jazz: the Jubilee Sessions 1943 - 1946 * * * Hindsight

James L. Dean & the Whiskey Cafe Jazz Quintet * * * Satellite * * * These Things We Dig * * * Cexton

Lester Young w/ Count Basie & His Orchestra * * * Jumpin' at the Woodside * * * Lester Leaps In * * * Proper

Lester Young w/ Una Mae Carlisle * * * Blitzkreig Baby (You Can't Bomb Me) * * * Afternoon of a Basie-ite * * * Proper

Lester Young w/ Johnny Guamieri's Swing Men * * * Salute to Fats * * * Lester Leaps Again * * * Proper

Lester Young w/ Shorty McConnell * * * Sax-O-Be-Bop * * * Ding Dong * * * Proper

Squirrel Nut Zippers * * * Ghost of Stephen Foster * * * Perennial Favorites * * * Mammoth

Rum Drum Ramblers * * * If It Have To Be * * * Mean Scene * * * Lightin' Thunders

Pokey LaFarge * * * Cairo, Illinois * * * Beat Move and Shake * * * Big Muddy

Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three * * * Won't Make Love At All * * * Riverboat Soul * * * Free Dirt

Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three * * * Chittlin' Cookin' Time in Cheatham County * * * 7" single * * * Third Man

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

Gene Krupa w/ Howard Dulany * * * Rendevous in Rio (Un Momento) * * * The Chronological: 1941 * * * Classics

Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra * * * I Just Couldn't Take It Baby * * * The Chronological: 1930 - 1934 * * * Classics

Noah Lewis' Jug Band * * * Ticket Agent Blues * * * Ruckus Juice & Chittlins * * * Yazoo

Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers * * * White House Blues * * * Old Time Songs * * * County

Ornette Coleman * * * Blues Connotation * * * Ken Burns Jazz * * * Columbia-Legacy

Playlist: Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Lester Young w/ Billie Holiday * * * I Can't Get Started * * * The Lester Young Story: Lester Leaps In * * * Proper

Lester Young Band * * * Tickle Toe * * * The Lester Young Story: Afternoon of a Basie-ite * * * Proper

Lester Young Quintet * * * Ghost of a Chance * * * The Lester Young Story: Lester Leaps Again * * * Proper

Lester Young * * * Lester's Be-Bop Boogie * * * The Lester Young Story: Ding Dong * * * Proper

Peggy Lee and Art London w/ Benny Goodman * * * If You Build a Better Mousetrap * * * Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman * * * Okeh

Cab Calloway * * * Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea * * * Kicking the Gong Around * * * Living Era

Hoagy Carmichael & Bix Beiderbecke * * * Bessie Couldn't Help It * * * Dixieland Jazz * * * Mentum

Bing Crosby & Bob Hope * * * Chicago Style * * * Thanks for the Memory * * * Living Era

Mound City Blues Blowers * * * Georgia On My Mind * * * The Essential Sides Remastered 1929 - 1933 * * * JSP

Spike Hughes & His Negro Orchestra * * * Sweet Sorrow Blues * * * The Essential Sides Remastered 1933 - 1934 * * * JSP

Coleman Hawkins w/ Stephane Grappelly & Django Reinhardt * * * Star Dust * * * The Essential Sides Remastered 1934 - 1938 * * * JSP

Coleman Hawkins & Freddy Johnson * * * Star Dust * * * The Essential Sides Remastered 1936 - 1939 * * * JSP

Bing Crosby * * * The Yodel Blues * * * Good & Rare * * * Sepia

Bing Crosby * * * I Can't Get Started * * * So Rare * * * Collector's Music

Gene Krupa & His Orchestra w/ Anita O'Day * * * Georgia On My Mind * * * The Chronological: 1941 * * * Classics

Jack Teagarden & His Chicagoans * * * Shake Your Hips * * * The Chronological: 1930 - 1934 * * * Classics

Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals * * * One Night In Havana * * * Hoagy Carmichael: The First of the Singer Songwriters: The Key Cuts 1924 - 1929 * * * JSP

Irving Mills & His Hotsy-Totsy Gang * * * High & Dry * * * Hoagy Carmichael: The First of the Singer Songwriters: The Key Cuts 1929 - 1932 * * * JSP

Dorsey Brothers Orchestra * * * Old Man Harlem * * * Hoagy Carmichael: The First of the Singer Songwriters: The Key Cuts 1932 - 1934 * * * JSP

Ethel Waters * * * Bread & Gravy * * * Hoagy Carmichael: The First of the Singer Songwriters: The Key Cuts 1932 - 1946 * * * JSP

Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band * * * Why Cry Blues * * * Gennett Records Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 * * * Gennett

Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five * * * Fireworks * * * Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. 3 * * * JSP

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

Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers * * * Ramblin' Blues * * * Old Time Songs * * * County

Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three * * * Chitlin' Cookin' Time In Cheatham County * * * 7" single * * * Third Man

Eddie's Hot Shots * * * I'm Gonna Stomp Mr. Henry Lee * * * Eddie Condon: Makin' Friends * * * JSP

Jack Bland & His Rhythmmakers * * * Somebody Stole Gabriel's Horn * * * Eddie Condon: Let's Swing It * * * JSP

Bud Freeman & His Gang * * * Life Spears a Jitterbug * * * Eddie Condon: Tappin' the Commodore Till * * * JSP

Eddie Condon & His Orchestra w/ John Bubbles Sublett * * * Atlanta Blues * * * Eddie Condon: We Called It Music * * * JSP

Buck Clayton * * * Blues in the Dark * * * Black Legends of Jazz * * * Decca

Robert Johnson * * * Come On In My Kitchen * * * The Centennial Collection * * * Columbia-Legacy

Simone White * * * St. Louis Blues * * * Yakiimo * * * Honest Jon's

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