"Sweet & Hot"

[Feraud]

Just a quick note to say how much I enjoy your show!
Keep up the amazing work.

 

[Chas]

Just a quick note to say how much I enjoy your show!
Keep up the amazing work.

Thanks very much for that.

Today marks the anniversary of Count Basie's Birthday. That means a tribute show!

This year's tribute features selections from "The Complete Decca Recordings", "America's #1 Band" and others. There is also a radio transcription of the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival which has some amazing solo work by Lester Young, Illinois Jacquet and Roy Eldridge.

 

[Chas]

Today's podcast commemorates "Black Tuesday" - the final culminating day that marked the Stock Market Crash of 1929, and of the Great Depression that followed.

Enjoy!

 

[Wally_Hood]

Chas, I only recently discovered your wonderful show, and I am already hooked! Keep up the great work-

 

[Chas]

This week's podcast is up; today's show was a real barn burner, 'cause I was in a groove.

Enjoy.

 

[Chas]

This week's show was a real cooker. Thinkin' on pickin' a new opening theme song for each show. Suggestions are most welcome.

So far, I am considering:

Duke Ellington - The Minor Goes-A-Muggin'
Duke Ellington - Johnny Come Lately
Count Basie - Do Nothing 'Till You Hear From Me
Count Basie - Swingin At The Daisy Chain

Really, really good suggestions will win a prize. Meaning, a compilation cd.

 

[Bustercat]

Great stuff, man.

 

[Chas]

Thanks very much.

This year I'm amping things up a bit.

Black history month will have an interview with Big Jay McNeely which I did a couple of years back, but for technical reasons couldn't air.

Also on Black History Month, Yvonne Lanauze, who sang with Duke Ellington (now goes by the name Eve Smith) will join me in the studio.

Eve Smith

Looking forward to more guest interviews, live studio broadcasts of hot jazz and swing musicians from Vancouver B.C., local entertainment personalities and more of the 78 rpm era.

 

[Chas]

The latest podcast is up. I opened with what I think is my favorite recording of "One O'Clock Jump" - recorded in 1944 with Artie Shaw and Illinois Jacquet.

Doesn't get better than that.

 

[Chas]

This week's podcast is a continuation of Black History Month, and my guest is Eve Smith, who, as Yvonne Lanauze (or just Yvonne) sang with the Duke Ellington Orchestra from 1951 to 1952 and recorded several memorable sides with Ellington before embarking on a long successful career as a vocalist in Montreal and Vancouver.

 

[Chas]

One of my listeners on the FL tells me that she was writing down the titles of the songs I am playing. To save her and others the trouble, I will start posting my playlists weekly. This also helps me avoid repitition.

Playlist for Feb. 25th, 2010:

Earl Hines: Rock And Rye
Louis Jordan - Show Me How To Milk A Cow
Count Basie - Lady Be Good
Count Basie - Texas Shuffle
Marion Abernathy - Undecided
Slam Stewart - My Blue Heaven
Benny Carter - All Alone (v: Savannah Churchill)
Lucky Millinder - Shout, Sister Shout (v: Sister Rosetta Tharpe)
Una Mae Carlisle - Beautiful Eyes
Ella Fitzgerald - A Tisket, A Tasket
Lester Young, Red Callender, Marie Bryant & Co. - Jamming The Blues
Cab Calloway - Nobody's Sweetheart
Bennie Moten - White Lightnin' Blues
Kid Ory - My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
King Oliver - Papa De Da Da
Fletcher Henderson - Rose Room (At Sunny Roseland)
Louis Armstrong - West End Blues
Coleman Hawkins - Body and Soul
Tyree Glenn - Humoresque
Lionel Hampton - Flying Home (ts: Illinois Jacquet)
Jimmie Lunceford - Four Or Five Times
Mabel Scott - No More Cryin'
Hazel Scott - Emaline
Mary Lou Williams - Margie
Browning and Starr - Lulu's Back In Town
Cleo Brown - Who'll Chop Your Suey
Nat King Cole - Gee, Baby Ain't I Good To You
Duke Ellington - Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me (v: Al Hibbler)
Duke Ellington - Cotton Tail
Duke Ellington - Watermelon Man (v: Ivie Anderson)
Duke Ellington - Jump For Joy (v: Ivie Anderson)
Duke Ellington - Mood Indigo (v: Ivie Anderson)
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra: Brunswick #6289, Smoke Rings (closing theme song)

 

[Chas]

Playlist for this week's show

Earl Hines - Rock and Rye
Lucky Millinder - Chew Tobacco Rag
Buddy Johnson - Opus Two
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - White Heat
Roger Sturgis - Toodle-Loodle On Down
Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump (c:Artie Shaw)
Dizzy Gillespie - Salt Peanuts
Benny Goodman - All The Cats Join In
Fletcher Henderson - King Porter Stomp
Jimmy Dorsey - Stomping At The Savoy
Jean Goldkette - Sunday
Frankie Trumbauer Orch - Borneo
Boswell Sisters - It Don't Mean A Thing (If You Ain't Got Swing)
Lucky Millinder - Four Or Five Times (v: Sister Rosetta Tharpe)
Charlie Palloy - Sentimental Gentleman From Georgia
Cleo Brown - Me And My Wonderful One
Cats & The Fiddle - Gangbuster
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra - I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
King Benny Nawahi - Under A Texas Moon
Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys - When Jenny Does Her Low Down Dance
Dean Mora - Siam Blues
Midnight Serenaders - Pettin' In The Rain
Thelma Terry & Her Playboys - Mama's Gone, Goodbye
Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks - Ninety In The Shade
The Stolen Sweets - Easy On The Eyes
Django Reinhardt - Undecided
Eddie Chamblee - Caravan
Earl Bostic - Harlem Nocturne
Anita O'Day - Sweet Georgia Brown
Lionel Hampton - Whoah Babe
Floyd Taylor - Bar B Q
Chick Webb - If Dreams Come True
Lester Young - Indiana
Duke Ellington - Just A-Settin'-And-A-Rockin'
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orch. - Smoke Rings (closing theme)

 

[Chas]

Playlist For March 11, 2010

Earl Hines - Rock And Rye (opening theme)
Lucky Millinder - Savoy
Gene Krupa - Ball Of Fire
Slim Lamar's Southerners - Goofus
Louisiana Rhythm Kings - Hallucinations
The Rhythm Boys - Louise
Nicholas Brothers & Dorothy Dandridge - Chattanooga Choo Choo
Nicholas Brothers - Lucky Number
Blue Steele & His Orch. - Threre's A Tear For Every Smile In Hollywood
Kay Starr - I Only Have Eyes For You
Anita O'Day - And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine,
Dorsey Bros. Orch. - She's Funny That Way
Abe Lymann's Californians - Shake That Thing
Bob Haggart & Ray Beaduc - The Big Noise From Winnetka
Slam Stewart - My Blue Heaven
Charlie Barnet - Rockin' In Rhythm
Bob Crosby - Swingin' At The Sugar Bowl
King Cole Trio - Slew Foot Joe
Andy Kirk - The Lady Who Swings The Band
Jay McShann - Swingin' The Blues
Albert Ammons & Big Joe Turner - Roll 'Em Pete
Jay McShann - Reach (ts: Ben Webster)
Benny Moten's Kansas City Orch. - Liza Lee
Count BasieS - top Beatin' Around The Mulberry Bush
Walter Page's Original Blue Devils - Squabblin'
Kansas City Six - Pagin' The Devil
Lester Young - Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
Louis Armstrong - Stardust
Earl Hines - On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Artie Shaw - Don't Fall Asleep (v: Pauline Byrne)
Slim Gaillard - Slim's Jam
Johnny Hodges - Duke's Blues
Benny Goodman - Blue Skies
Billie Holiday - You're Driving Me Crazy
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orch - Smoke Rings (closing theme),

 

[Chas]

Playlist For March 18, 2010

Earl Hines - Rock and Rye
Teddy Wilson - Ain't Misbehavin'
Savannah Churchill - Fat Meat Is Good Meat
Mills Blue Rhythm Band - Drop Me Off In Harlem (v:Adelaide Hall)
Henry "Red" Allen - He Ain't Got Rhythm
Count Basie & Artie Shaw - Bird Calls
Nat King Cole Trio - Jump, Jack Jump
The Sycnopators - River, Stay Away From My Door
Roger Wolfe Kahn - Crazy Rhythm
Fred Rich - Until Today (v,t: Bunny Berigan)
Jan Savitt - On The Road To Mandalay
Harlan Leonard & His Rockets - When Society Steps Out (Rachmaninoff Jumps)
Benny Carter - Nagasaki
Carmen Miranda - Mama Eu Quero
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Hawaiian War Chant (v: McKinney Sisters)
Lecuona Cuban Boys - Rhumba Tumbah
The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks - Here Comes My Ball and Chain
Larry Clinton - The Dipsy Doodle (v: Bea Wain)
Una Mae Carlisle - I'm Evil
Jimmy Forrest - Night Train
Lester Young - Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
Duke Ellington - Caravan
Lee Wiley - Find Me A Primitive Man
Johnny Hodges - Castle Rock
Jay McShann - The Beast
Coleman Hawkins - Flamethrower
T J Fowler - T J's Boogie
Jimmie Lunceford's Chickasaw Syncopators - In 'Dat Mornin'
Woody Herman - Who Dat Up Dere
Duke Ellington - Harlem Airshaft
King Oliver - Papa De Da Da
Lucky Millinder - Four Or Five Times
Benny Goodman Quintet - Rose Room
Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orch - Smoke Rings (closing theme)

 

[Chas]

Playlist For March 25, 2010

Earl Hines - Rock and Rye
Andy Kirk - Wednesday Night Hop
Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives And Sevens - Hotter Than That
Clarence Williams - Take Your Black Bottom Outside
Jack Purvis - Be Bo Bo
Teddy Wilson - Mary Had A Little Lamb (v: Roy Eldridge)
Louis Prima's New Orleans Gang - Sing, Sing, Sing
Adrian Rollini & His Orch. - Tap Room Swing
Harlem Hot Shots - Who's Sorry Now
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Liza, Pull Down The Shades
Cab Calloway - Pluckin' The Bass
Cab Calloway - A Ghost Of A Chance (ts: Chu Berry)
McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Just a Shade Of Corn
Fats Waller - I Repent
Valaida Snow - Caravan
The Mills Brothers - Smoke Rings
Cab Calloway - My Honey's Loving Arms
Annette Hanshaw - We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye
Lee Morse - Susianna
Buddy Johnson - Crying My Heart Over You,
Buddy Johnson - Fine Brown Frame
Freddie Mitchell - Easter Parade
Buddy Johnson - Be Careful If You Can't Be Good
Lucky Millinder - Teardrops From My Eyes (v: Wynonie Harris)
Django Reinhardt - Nagasaki
Slam Stewart - Play, Fiddle Play
Lionel Hampton - Lavender Coffin
Artie Shaw - Everything Is Jumpin'
Sarah Vaughan - Nice Work If You Can Get It
Woody Herman - Caldonia
Illinois Jacquet - Illinois Blows the Blues
Duke Ellington - Bojangles
Duke Ellington - All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
Lester Young - Exercise In Swing
Benny Goodman Sextet - Four Or Five Times
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orch. - Smoke Rings (closing theme)

 

[Chas]

Today's podcast is up - next week is the annual Duke Ellingtong Anniversary Tribute show.

 

[Chas]

As promised, the Duke Ellington anniversary tribute show is available for download.

 

[Chas]

This week's show will be a tribute to the wonderful, talented, beautiful and ever-to-be-missed Lena Horne.

 

[Chas]

The Lena Horne tribute podcast is available for download. I hope you enjoy it.

 

[Chas]

The latest podcast is an "All Canadian Show" as this week's show fell on Canada Day.

Lots of Jeff Healey, Bria Skonberg et. al. Enjoy!