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

Current New Orleans Time: Thu, 1:20pm

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.