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Playlist for April 28, 2006 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Current New Orleans Time: Sat, 3:50pm
Show Host(s): The Minister of Swing

Playlist Date & Time: 4/28/2006 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Archived Playlist for The Minister of Swing

The first weekend of Jazzfest. Celebrating Duke Ellington's birthday April 29 and Ella Fitzgerald's April 25.

Playlist Tracks
Joe Jackson
"Rhythm Delivery"
Tucker Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
A&M
1988
Opening theme.
Count Basie and his Orchestra
"Blues in the Dark"
1938-1939
Classics
1990
January 3, 1938. Jimmy Rushing vocal.
Tommy Dorsey and his Clambake Seven
"After You"
1937 vol. 3
Classics
1998
July 20, 1937.
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
"Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'"
The Private Collection vol. 9
Kaz
1996
Ray Nance vocal and trumpet.
Henry Allen and his Orchestra
"Jack the Bellboy"
1937-1941
Classics
1992
July 22, 1941. Rejected by Okeh.
Earl Hines and his Orchestra
"Grand Terrace Shuffle"
1937-1939
Classics
1990
July 12, 1939.
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra
"Don't Fall Asleep"
1939-1940
Classics
1999
March 3, 1940.
Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra
"Big Chief De Sota"
1934-1937
Classics
1990
March 27, 1936.
Harry James and his Orchestra
"Fanny-May"
1939
Classics
1997
May 24, 1939.
Mound City Blue Blowers
"You've Been Taking Lessons"
1935-1936
Classics
1996
May 9, 1935. Red McKenzie vocal and comb. Bunny Berigan trumpet.
Billie Holiday and her Orchestra
"Me, Myself and I"
1933-1937
Classics
1991
June 15, 1937. Members of the Basie Orchestra playing: Buck Clayton, trumpet, Lester Young, tenor sax, Walter Page, string bass.
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
"Dinah's in a Jam"
1938 vol. 2
Classics
1993
April 11, 1938.
Cab Calloway and his Orchestra
"Peck-A-Doodle-Doo"
1938-1939
Classics
1991
March 23, 1938.
Ella Fitzgerald and her Famous Orchestra
"Gulf Coast Blues"
The Early Years Pt. 2
GRP
1993
May 9, 1940.
Jelly Roll Morton
"King Porter Stomp"
1939-1940
Classics
1992
December 14, 1939. Piano solo.
Stella Brooks
"Jazz Me Blues"
Bechet 1945-1946
Classics
1997
May 7, 1946. Brooks vocal with notables Sidney Bechet on soprano sax and George Brunies trombone.
Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra
"Sluuming on Park Avenue"
1935-1937
Classics
1990
January 26, 1937.
Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra
"Beulah's Boogie"
Lionel Hampton Story
Proper
2000
May 21, 1945.
Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
"I Just Got A Letter"
The Complete Glenn Miller
BMG
1991
Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
"Cocanut Grove"
1939-1940
Classics
1999
April 10, 1940.
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
"Mood Indigo"
The Private Collection vol. 10
Kaz
1996
Live recording from 1958.
Woody Herman and his Orchestra
"Blue Flame"
Woody Herman Story
Proper
2000
February 13, 1941.
Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters
"Shuffle Rhythm"
Swing Time!
Columbia
1993
March 15, 1937.
Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra
"Wrappin' It Up"
1932-1934
Classics
1990
September 12, 1934.
Fats Waller and his Rhythm
"Lulu's Back In Town"
1935
Classics
1994
May 8, 1935.
Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra
"Long About Midnight"
1932-1934
Classics
1990
January 22, 1934.
Casa Loma Orchestra
"Jungle Jitters"
Maniac's Ball
Hep
1996
June 10, 1936.
Tommy Dorsey and his Clambake Seven
"Don't Ever Change"
1937 vol. 2
Classics
1998
June 12, 1937.
Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra
"Song of the Volga Boatmen"
Stop, Look and Listen
Jasmine
2002
April 29, 1938.
Raymond Scott Quintette
"Celebration on the Planet Mars"
Microphone Music
Basta
January 1938.
Lester Young Band
"Tickle-Toe"
Lester Young vol. 2
Media
1993
February 15, 1941. Live recording.
Ovie Alston and his Orchestra
"Home Cookin' Momma"
Claude Hopkins 19371940
Classics
1993
October 21, 1938. Hopkins on piano.
Mills Blue Rhythm Band
"Everything is Still Okay"
1934-1936
Classics
1993
May 20, 1936. Red Allen trumpet.
Mills Blue Rhythm Band
"Red Rhythm"
1934-1936
Classics
1993
May 20, 1936.
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
"Harmony in Harlem"
1937 vol. 2
Classics
1993
September 20, 1937.
Chick Webb and his Orchestra
"I Want to be Happy"
Ella The Early Years Pt. 1
GRP
1992
December 17, 1937. Ella Fitgerald vocal.
Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans
"Second Balcony Jump"
1938-1941
Classics
1993
February 28, 1941.
Don Redman and his Orchestra
"We Don't Know from Nothin'"
1936-1939
Classics
1991
September 30, 1936. Redman vocal.
Quintette of the Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt
"My Meloncholy Baby"
Django 1938-1939
Classics
1994
March 22, 1939.
Benny Carter and his Swing Quartet
"Tiger Rag"
1936
Classics
1990
June 20, 1936.
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five
"Early in the Morning"
Jivin' with Jordan
Proper
2002
April 23, 1947.
Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra
"Brazil"
Cuban Mambo
Saar
1992
Perez Prado and his Orchestra
"Adios Mi Chaparrita"
Mambo Jambo
Saar
1992
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra
"The Calypso"
1940-1941
Classics
2001
December 17, 1940.
Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
"Blue Skies"
Birth of Swing
BMG
1991
June 25, 1935.
Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra
"Pompton Turnpike"
Nipper's Greatest Hits of the 1940s
BMG
1989
July 19, 1940.
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
"Blue Goose"
1940
Classics
1995
May 28, 1940.
Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra
"Shanty Boat on the Mississippi"
1939-1940
Classics
1991
June 15, 1939.
Floyd Ray and his Orchestra
"3:00 in the Morning"
Tea Pad Songs
Stash
1976
February 1939. Closing theme.