Happy New Year, and welcome to another year of wonderful music on I’ve Heard That Song Before! It’s becoming a tradition on the show to start the new year off with fabulous jazz from recordings made by the great musicians at the time — today from the late 1920s to the late 1940s. We’ll hear from the three great “fathers of jazz”: Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton bring us some of the great jazz classics. Our playlist also includes some lovely piano work from Fats Waller and Teddy Wilson, fine trumpet solos from Billy Butterfield and Muggsy Spanier, and the ever wonderful Bud Freeman brings us his tenor sax on several recordings. Enjoy some classic jazz to bring in the New Year!
- Bud Freeman And His Orchestra 1945 Town Hall Blues 3:12
- Fats Waller 1941 Pantin’ In The Panther Room 3:04
- Bunny Berigan 1935 Keep Smilin’ At Trouble 3:08
- Wild Bill Davison & His Commodores 1943 Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home 2:55
- Teddy Wilson 1936 Why Do I Lie to Myself About You 3:08
- Bud Freeman And His Gang 1938 Memories Of You 3:16
- Muggsy Spanier’s Ragtimers 1939 Dipper Mouth Blues 2:29
- Adrian Rollini 1938 Bugle Call Rag 2:59
- George Wettling And His Rhythm Kings 1944 Struttin’ With Some Barbecue 3:08
- Jelly Roll Morton’s Hot Seven 1940 Swinging The Elks 2:50
- Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five 1928 West End Blues 3:13
- Eddie Condon & His Band 1939 Strut Miss Lizzie 3:00
- Sidney Bechet 1949 When The Saints Go Marchin’ In 3:02