Show 75: Jazz in Early Blues' Legacy
This program maps the blues inside early jazz before the borders got drawn too neatly. Hot bands, classic blues singers, and small-group improvisers all show how jazz did not leave the blues behind: it dressed it up, stretched it out, and kept the blue note right in the center.
For today's auspicious 75th episode of the CC Blues Show, we'll be taking it back to before the Second World War, when jazz and the blues were fundamentally at their most interconnected point. Up first we're going to hear from jazz's greatest blues artists, Louis Armstrong and his pal Zutty Singleton, accompanied by none other than the trombone pioneer Kid Ory. Mr. Armstrong comes in hot in this next track proclaiming, "Folks, come gather 'round my stand and Satchmo's happy Dixie band," and he does it all where the blues were born, in New Orleans. Here it is.
This program maps the blues inside early jazz before the borders got drawn too neatly. Hot bands, classic blues singers, and small-group improvisers all show how jazz did not leave the blues behind: it dressed it up, stretched it out, and kept the blue note right in the center.
| Order | Track | Artist | Segment | Bridge | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where the Blues Were Born in New Orleans | Zutty Singleton;Louis Armstrong;Kid Ory;Barney Brigard;Charlie Beale;Bud Scott;Red Callander | 1 | - | |
| 2 | Aunt Hager's Children | Zutty Singleton;Omer Simeon Trio | 1 | - | |
| 3 | Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well | Lucky Millinder | 1 | - | |
| 4 | Whose Honey Are You | Henry "Red" Allen | 1 | - | |
| 5 | A-Well-A-Take-'em-A-Joe, Crap Shooter's Jive | Slim & Slam | 1 | - | |
| 6 | It Don't Mean a Thing | Papa Celestin | 1 | - | |
| 7 | St. Louis Blues | Papa Celestin | 1 | - | |
| 8 | St James Infirmary | King Oliver | 1 | Yes | - |
| 9 | I'm Coming Home | Otis Redding | 2 | Yes | - |
| 10 | Billie's Blues - Take 1 | Billie Holiday | 2 | - | |
| 11 | Haven't Got a Dollar to Pay Your House Rent Man | Genevieve Davis | 2 | - | |
| 12 | C.C. Rider | Blind John Davis | 2 | - | |
| 13 | Rockin' Chair | The Mills Brothers | 2 | - | |
| 14 | Limehouse Blues | The Mills Brothers | 2 | - | |
| 15 | Blue Devil Blues | Walter Page's Blue Devils | 2 | - | |
| 16 | Canal Street Blues | King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band | 2 | - | |
| 17 | Low Down Blues | Bunk Johnson | 2 | Yes | - |
| 18 | Sugar Foot Stomp | Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra | 3 | Yes | - |
| 19 | Hot and Anxious (06-30-32) | Don Redman | 3 | - | |
| 20 | Walk 'Em | Buddy Johnson | 3 | - | |
| 21 | Harlem on Saturday Night | Lil Hardin Armstrong | 3 | - | |
| 22 | Wild Man Blues | Johnny Dodds | 3 | - | |
| 23 | Tin Roof Blues | New Orleans Rhythm Kings | 3 | - | |
| 24 | My Bucket's Got A Hole In It | Kid Ory | 3 | - | |
| 25 | Sent For You Yesterday | Count Basie | 3 | - | |
| 26 | Salty Dog | George Lewis | 3 | Yes | - |
| 27 | Summertime | Ella Fitzgerald;Louis Armstrong | 4 | Yes | - |
| 28 | Keepin' Out of Mischief Now | Louis Armstrong | 4 | - | |
| 29 | Aggravatin' Papa | Bessie Smith | 4 | - | |
| 30 | A Good Man Is Hard to Find | Fats Waller | 4 | - | |
| 31 | Pagan Love Song | Sweet Emma Barrett | 4 | - | |
| 32 | Basin Street Blues | Sidney Bechet | 4 | - | |
| 33 | That's On Jack That's On | The Cats & The Fiddle | 4 | - | |
| 34 | Edmond Hall Blues | Edmond Hall | 4 | - | |
| 35 | Dippermouth Blues | Billie Pierce;De De Pierce;Paul Barbarin | 4 | Yes | - |
| 36 | London Cafe Blues | Jimmie Noone;Joe King Oliver;Baby Dodds | 5 | Yes | - |