Playlist for May 5, 2006 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Current New Orleans Time: Thu, 6:06pm

Playlist Date & Time: 5/5/2006 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Archived Playlist for The Minister of Swing

The second week of Jazz Fest.

Playlist Tracks

Joe Jackson
"Rhythm Delivery"
Tucker Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
A&M
1998
Opening theme.
Major Glenn Miller and the American Band of the Allied Expeditionary Force
"Everybody Loves My Baby"
The Lost Recordings
Conifer
1995
1944.
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra
"If What You Say Is True"
1939-1940
Classics
1999
September 28, 1939. Tony Pastor vocal.
Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
"Big John Special"
The Indispensable Benny Goodman vol 5/6
RCA
1994
May 28, 1938. Horace Henderson composition.
Rex Stewart and his 52nd Street Stompers
"Lazy Man's Shuffle"
Duke Ellington 1936-1937
Classics
1992
December 16, 1936.
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five
"You're Much Too Fat (and That's That)"
Jivin' With Jordan
Proper
2002
December 1, 1947.
Chu Berry and his Little Jazz Ensemble
"Forty-Sex West Fifty-Two"
1937-1941
Classics
1994
November 11, 1938. Spent many years with Cab Calloway's Orchestra.
Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra
"Flying Home"
1940
Classics
2003
May 8, 1940. Song popularized by Lionel Hampton.
Cab Calloway and his Orchestra
"Twee-Twee-Tweet"
1939-1940
Classics
1991
August 30, 1939. Chu Berry and Dizzy Gillespie play on this number.
Count Basie and his Orchestra
"Sub-Deb Blues"
1939 vol. 2
Classics
1990
June 24, 1939. Helen Humes vocal.
Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra
"Bugs Parade"
1939-1940
Classics
1991
January 5, 1940.
Hot Lips Page and his Orchestra
"The Blues Jumped the Rabbit"
1940-1944
Classics
1995
March 8, 1944. Page on trumpet and vocal.
Woody Herman and his Orchestra
"The Golden Wedding"
Woody Herman Story
Proper
2000
September 27, 1940.
Andy Kirk and his 12 Clouds of Joy
"Little Joe from Chicago"
Masters of Jazz
Rhino
1996
February 8, 1938.
Harry James and the Boogie Woogie Trio
"Boo-Woo"
1937-1939
Classics
1996
February 1, 1939.
Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra
"Let 'er Go"
1937-1938
Classics
1990
September 22, 1937.
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
"I Never Knew"
1938
Classics
2000
March 10, 1938.
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
"Sepia Panorama"
Fargo, ND November 7, 1940
Vintage Jazz Classics
1990
Live recording November 7, 1940. Ray Nance had just replaced Cootie Williams on trumpet.
Lionel Hampton Octet
"Royal Family"
Lionel Hampton Story
Proper
2000
March 2, 1942.
Billie Holiday
"Let's Do It"
1940-1942
Classics
1993
March 21, 1941. With Eddie Heywood and his Orchestra.
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
"Boot It"
1929-1930
Classics
1991
October 24, 1929. Hot Lips Page trumpet, Count Basie piano.
King Oliver and his Orchestra
"Shake It and Break It"
1930-1931
Classics
1991
September 10, 1930.
Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra
"The Scat Song"
1932-1934
Classics
1990
December 18, 1933.
Mills Blue Rhythm Band
"There's Rhythm in Harlem"
1934-1936
Classics
1993
July 9, 1935. Internet request for Bali.
Zutty Singleton and his Orchestra
"Shim Me Sha Wobble"
Red Allen 1937-1941
Classics
1992
May 28, 1940.
Hudson de-Lange Orchestra
"Mr. Ghost Goes to Town"
Swing Time!
Columbia
1993
June 30, 1936.
Hot Lips Page and his Band
"South"
1938-1940
Classics
1991
November 11, 1940. Requested music from Slidell. She wanted Moten's version, which I didn't bring with me, but Page played horn for Moten and does a splendid job here.
Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra
"You, You Darlin'"
1940
Circle
1993
1940. Helen O'Connel vocal.
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
"Morning Glory"
1940
Classics
1995
March 6, 1940.
Don Redman and his Orchestra
"Igloo"
1939-1940
Classics
1992
May 18, 1939. Laurel Watson vocal.
Earl Hines and his Orchestra
"'Gator Swing"
1937-1939
Classics
1990
October 6, 1939.
Peggy Lee
"Not Mine"
In the Beginning
Past
October 12, 1941. With Benny Goodman and his Orchestra.
Will Bradley and his Orchestra
"In the Hall of the Mountain King"
Will Bradley Orchestra with Ray McKinley
Circle
1995
September 7, 1941.
Raymond Scott Quintette
"Steeplechase"
Microphone Music
Basta
April 1939.
Art Tatum Trio
"I Ain't Got Nobody"
1940-1944
Classics
1995
January 5, 1944.
The Quintette of the Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt
"Appel Direct"
Django 1938-1939
Classics
1994
June 14, 1938.
Alice Faye and Louis Prima
"I'm Just Wild About Harry"
GI Jukebox
Hindsight
1993
1939. For Broadcast only on Armed Forces Radio.
Gene Krupa and his Orchestra
"Blue Rhythm Fantasy"
Gene Krupa Story
Proper
1998
January 2, 1940.
Les Brown and his Orchestra
"I'm Making Believe"
1944 & 1946
Circle
1992
August 1, 1944. Doris Day vocal.
Chick Webb and his Orchestra
"Moonlight and Magnolias"
1935-1938
Classics
1990
October 12, 1935. Charles Linton vocal.
Artie Shaw and his New Music
"It Goes to Your Feet"
1936-1937
Classics
1996
May 13, 1937.
Ziggy Elman and his Orchestra
"What Used to Was Used to Was (Now It Ain't)"
1938-1939
Classics
1996
November 27, 1939.
Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra
"How Am I To Know?"
1937
Classics
1990
April 23, 1937. Helen Ward vocal. Harry James trumpet, Johnny Hodges sax.
Jay McShann Kansas City Stompers
"Moten Swing"
1944-1946
Classics
1997
November 1, 1944.
Count Basie and his Orchestra
"Basie Strides Again (Along Avenue C)"
1943-1945
Classics
1995
May 27, 1944.
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
"Exposition Swing"
1936-1937
Classics
1992
July 29, 1936.
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
"An Old Flame Never Dies"
1937 vol. 3
Classics
1998
August 12, 1937. Jack Leonard vocal.
Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Quartet
"Bechet's Steady Rider"
1940
Classics
1991
March 20, 1940.
Floyd Ray and his Orchestra
"3:00 in the Morning"
Tea Pad Songs
Stash
1976
February 1939. Closing theme.