Jazz Focus: Recent Episodes
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Largely forgotten white New Orleans clarinet player Parenti had a long and busy career initially in his hometown, but then in New York and Miami. He was a solid, dependable player whose jazz abilities were overlooked sometimes, but here are on full displace in trios (with Dick Wellstood and Sam Ulano) and quartets (with Hank Duncan, George Wettling, Milt Hinton, Armand Hug, Abbie Brunies and Chink Martin).
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Great sessions done in the fall of 1949 and January, 1951 when James Moody was touring Europe. He is featured heavily on both tenor and alto saxes, with help from a variety of unsung Swedish jazz players of the day including Lars Gullin, Arne Domnerus, Gosta Theselius and Leppe Sundvall.
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Muggsy Spanier was a mainstay on the Chicago jazz scene in the 1920's - influenced primarily by King Oliver and Louis Armstrong, he remained true to his style for the rest of his career. Here are some of his first recordings, with the Bucktown Five and Stomp Six (with Volly De Faut on clarinet, Mel Stitzel on piano and Ben Pollack on drums), the Danny Altier Orchestra (with Maury Bercov on clarinet, Jess Stacy on piano and George Wettling on drums) and the Charles Pierce Orchestra (with Frank Teschemacher on clarinet)
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Immensely influential British big band from the mid 1940's through the 1960's, Ted Heath and His Music was just finding its way in the middle 1940's. Featuring soloists like Kenny Baker on trumpet, Harry Roche and Jackie Armstrong on trombone, Reg Owen on clarinet, Les Gilbert on alto, Johnnie Gray on tenor and a rhythm section of Norman Stenfalt on piano, Dave Goldberg on guitar, Charlie Short on bass and Jack Parnell on drums, this group could hold its own with any American counterparts.
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The short time Johnny Hodges left Duke Ellington's band produced a bounty of recordings from his regular band and studio groups. Here is the regular group with Nelson Williams, Emmett Berry or Harold "Shorty" Baker on trumpets, Lawrence Brown (trombone), Al Sears, Rudy Williams, Flip Phillips or Ben Webster on tenor sax, Leroy Lovett or Teddy Brannon on piano, Lloyd Trottman on bass and either Sonny Greer, J.C. Heard or Joe Marshall on drums and the leader's matchless alto sax
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The first band Cab Calloway led (on recording at least) had previously been known as the Missourians and before that the Original Cotton Club Orchestra. A relentlessly hot dance band, the group featured R.Q. Dickerson and Lammar Wright on trumpets, DePriest Wheeler on trombone, George Scott and William Thornton Blue dividing the clarinet and alto solos, Andrew Brown on tenor, Walter Thomas on tenor and baritone, Earres Prince on piano, Morris White on banjo, Jimmy Smith on tuba and Leroy Maxey on drums.
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New Orleans trumpet player Manone was well-travelled in the 1920's . . here he is featured with his own groups in New Orleans (with Hal Jordy, Arnold Loyocano and Johnny Miller) and Chicago (with Frank Teschemacher, Wade Foster, Bud Freeman and George Wettling). Also with Barbecue Joe and His Hot Dogs (an almost unknown band with Miff Frink - a very hot trombone player) and Bennie Goodman and His Boys (with Freeman, Joe Sullivan and of course Benny Goodman)
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Odd pairing - Assunto founded and led the Dukes of Dixieland which was at the height of its popularity in 1962. These recordings were done for Columbia at the same time as sessions by Herb Ellis and His All-Stars. Ellis was touring with the Dukes (with also included Fred Assunto on trombone, Jac Assunto on trombone and banjo, Gene Schroeder on piano, Bob Casey on bass, Charlie Lodice on drums and on two tunes, Edmond Hall guesting on clarinet) and recorded a mainstream session under his own name featuring Buddy Tate, Ray Bryant and Gus Johnson. Roy Eldridge was also supposed to be there, but when he was delayed and missed the first two sessions, Frank Assunto stepped in, providing some of the best work of his career.
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The remainder of the Panassie sessions of 1938 and the Rosetta Crawford Decca session of 1939 featuring trumpeters Tommy Ladnier and Sidney DeParis, clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow, James P. Johnson (piano), Teddy Bunn (guitar), Elmer James or Pops Foster (bass), Zutty Singleton or Manzie Johnson (drums). Two tunes from 1959 feature Mezzrow's Paris-based band.
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Two great Savoy sessions by the peerless tenor saxophonist, featuring Teddy Brannon, Sanford Gold, Franklin Skeete and Max Roach . .definitely transition sessions between swing and bebop with superb ballad and uptempo playing.
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Outstanding French band playing the music of the black dance bands of the 1920's - not recreations, but reinterpretations. Featuring the leader on cornet, Patrick Bacqueville on trombone and vocals, Marc Bresdin, Michel Bescont, Nicholas Montier on saxes, Gerard Gervois on tuba and Bernard Thevin on piano. Very hot and energetic live recordings!
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Thelonious Monk made very few recordings as a sideman during the 1950's - here are a few samples! The Clark Terry Quartet (with Sam Jones and Philly Jo Jones), Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (with Bill Hardman, Johnny Griffin and Spanky DeBrest), Sonny Rollins' Quartet and Gigi Gryce's Quartet (with Blakey).
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Excellent jazz sessions for Swing, Ultraphone and Panachord featuring the great if unrecognized black trumpet player Bill Coleman. Sessions under his name and with Garnet Clark, Eddie Brunner and Willie Lewis (also featuring Edgar "Spider" Courance, Frank "Big Boy" Goudie, Christian Wagner, George Johnson, Joe Hayman, Django Reinhardt, Tommy Benford, June Cole, Alex Combelle and Noel Chiboust).
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Chicago clarinetist Teschemacher influenced a generation of hot jazz players, despite dying in a car crash when he was in his mid-20's. Here he plays with several iterations of the Austin High Gang (with Muggsy Spanier, Mezz Mezzrow, Joe Sullivan, Jim Lannigan, Eddie Condon, Gene Krupa and Red McKenzie), Wingy Manone's band (with Art Hodes), Elmer Schoebel's Friars' Society Orchestra and possibly the Original Wolverines as well as with his own group consisting of himself, Mezz Mezzrow and Rod Cless on reeds with a rhythm section.
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WETF Show - Early Monk - Thelonious Monk in 1950 and 1954 . .Two sessions during a very slow period of Monk's career - the Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie session (with Curley Russell and Buddy Rich) for Clef in 1950 and the solo session in Paris in 1954 featuring mostly Monk originals
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Great sessions featuring Chicago cornetist Jimmy McPartland - the Wolverines in 1925 and Original Wolverines in 1927 (Jimmy Hartwell, Maury Bercov, Dick Voynow, George Johnson, Vic Moore, Bob Gillette), McKenzie and Condon's Chicago Rhythm Kings in 1927 (Frank Teschemacher, Bud Freeman, Joe Sullivan, Eddie Condon, Jim Lannigan, Gene Krupa) and Benny Goodman and His Boys in 1928 (Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Fud Livingston, Vic Briedis, Dick Morgan, Harry Goodman, Bob Conselman, Ben Pollack)
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Four sessions featuring different singers with first class jazz accompanists doing a blues repertoire. Albinia Jones (with Dizzy Gillespie, Don Byas, Gene Sedric, Leonard Ware and Sammy Price), Helen Humes (with Herbie Fields, Bobby Stark, Prince Robinson and Leonard Feather), Pleasant Joseph (aka Cousin Joe, with Pete Brown, Leonard Hawkins, Ray Abrams) and Joe Turner (with Pete Johnson, Don Byas, Frankie Newton and Leonard Ware).
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Bob Wallis was a good trumpet player who played in Acker Bilk's first groups before founding his own. These 1957-61 recordings sample the first part of his bandleading career featuring Bilk, Keith "Avo" Avison on trombone, Doug Richmond on clarinet, Hugh Rainey on banjo, Dick Heckstall-Smith on soprano sax, a very young, pre-Cream Ginger Baker on drums and others . . all playing in a solid four beat New Orleans style
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The legendary New Orleans clarinetist returned home in the early 1940's and led bands there until he died in 1949. This group was a regular eight piece group modeled after the Bob Cats and featuring Whimpy Miller, Julian Lane, Steve Giarratano, Pete Laudeman, Bunny Franks and Charlie Dukes.
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Garner was known primarily as a solo pianist or by working in a trio, but early in his career he played as a sideman with several groups (strange, given that he didn't read music). Here we hear him small groups led by Wardell Gray, Don Byas, Charlie Parker and Lucky Thompson (also with Stuff Smith) and a big band led by Georgie Auld (with Dizzy Gillespie, Trummy Young, Al Cohn and Al Killian).
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Mezzrow was never a great clarinet player, but certainly was a great character and excelled at surrounding himself with very good musicians. These versions of the Mezz Mezzrow Orchestra and Swing band include Teddy Wilson, Willie The Lion Smith, Sonny White, Frankie Newton, Max Kaminsky, Sy Oliver, J.C. Higginbotham, Floyd O'Brien, Bud Freeman, Benny Carter, Johnny Russell, Happy Caldwell, Pops Foster, Wellman Braud and others
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The buoyant alto player known for his 1930's recordings is here presented leading bands in the 1940's that go from swing to bop to rhythm and blues . . records for Savoy and World Transcriptions featuring Jonah Jones and Ed Lewis on trumpets, Zed Jackson and Ray Parker on piano, Al Casey and Bill Moore on electric guitar, Dallas Bartley on bass, Ed Nicholson on drums and others.
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The amazingly progressive tenor saxophonist Byas in four quartet sessions featuring slightly different personnel - Erroll Garner, Johnny Guarnieri, Slam Stewart, Al Hall, Eddie Safranski, Sid Catlett, Doc West and J.C. Heard - doing a varied program of standards, blues and originals
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The great Harlem stride pianist Johnson recorded many piano rolls for various companies including QRS, Universal and Perfection, creating an early prototype of the stride style. Here he is featured playing his own compositions as well as interpretations of other tunes from Tin Pan Alley and the black theatre, including one duet with his erstwhile student Fats Waller
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Johnny Windhurst was born in 1926 and by the time he was in his late teens was playing with Eddie Condon and Sidney Bechet. Here is a sampling of his work - informed in equal parts by Bobby Hackett and Louis Armstrong. Sidney Bechet's New Orleans Rhythm Kings (with Pops Foster), Eddie Condon and His Band (with Cutty Cutshall, Ed Hall and Gene Schroeder), Barbara Lea and the Billy Taylor Quintet, Walt Gifford's New Yorkers (with Condon, Eddie Hubble, Dick Cary and Bob Mitchell) and his own quartet in Boston.
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Sidney Bechet's New Orleans Rhythm Kings live from the Savoy Cafe in Boston, May 1945. For three weeks following the disastrous run with Bechet and Bunk Johnson, the New Orleans trumpet player Peter Bocage was brought in and he is featured on about six broadcasts, which are sampled here! Also featuring Ray Parker on piano, Pops Foster on bass, George Thompson on drums and on two tunes Brad Gowans on valve trombone
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Studio band led by the New Orleans trumpeter Wingy Manone for Vocalion, OKeh and Banner in 1934 and 1935. Using members of the Ben Pollack Orchestra (Matty Matlock, Eddie Miller, Gil Bowers, Nappy Lamare, Harry Goodman, Ray Bauduc) Manone recorded a mix of original jazz tunes and Tin Pan Alley pops with a driving rhythm and outstanding solos.
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Almost unknown guitarist who could have provided some competition to Django Reinhardt in the 1930's . . Born in Argentina, Aleman lived in Paris for most of the 30's, returning home when war clouds gathered. Here are solo recordings of his, his own trio and quintet as well as sideman adventures with Bill Coleman, Garland Wilson, Danny Polo, Una Mae Carlisle, Alix Combelle, Phillipe Brun, Eddie Bruner, Wilson Myers and Tommy Benford
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Hodges' studio groups - mostly featuring Ellingtonians - recorded during his period away from the band. Harold "Shorty" Baker, Clark Terry (trumpet), Lawrence Brown (trombone), Jimmy Hamilton (clarinet and tenor sax), Arthur "Babe" Clarke (tenor sax), Harry Carney (baritone sax), Billy Strayhorn, Call Cobbs, Leroy Lovett (piano), Lloyd Trottman, Jimmy Woode (bass), Louis Bellson, Joe Marshall, Sonny Greer (drums)
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Studio band using the Red Nichols stock company and led by trombonist Mole - one of the unsung heroes of 1920's Jazz. With Nichols on cornet, Art Schutt and Joe Sullivan on piano, Vic Berton, Gene Krupa and Stan King on drums, Eddie Lang, Carl Kress and Dick McDonough on guitar and banjo, Joe Tarto on tuba and reeds played by Jimmy Dorsey, Pee Wee Russell, Fud Livingston and Adrian Rollini. All recorded for OKeh in New York!
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Live Recordings by the influential trad group with Waldo on piano and vocals, Roy Tate on trumpet, Jim Snyder on trombone, Frank Powers on clarinet and tenor sax, Bob Sundstrom and Bill Moorhead on banjo, Mike Walbridge on tuba and Wayne Jones on drums and vocal . . special guest Edith Wilson on vocals!
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These 1995-2002 sessions for Challenge records feature the crack Dutch big band playing published and unpublished arrangements and compositions by Billy Strayhorn, including a very early version of "Lush Life" (aka "Lonely Again") all featuring tremendous solos by the members of the band
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Unusual sessions during the Depression - black big bands active in Chicago in the 1930's (most musicians from the previous decade) playing good jazz! . .Richard M. Jones (with Artie Starks, Preston Jackson, Herschel Evans, Louis Metcalf, Ed Saint, others), Frankie Half Pint Jaxon (with Guy Kelly, Al Wynn, Dalbert Bright, Dave Young, others), and Reuben "River" Reeves (with Gerald Reeves, Franz Jackson, Norval Morton, Tubby Hall, others)
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On the face of it, the New Orleans trumpeter Manone and the great swing tenor sax player Berry were ill-fitted, but these 1938 and 1939 sessions were remarkably successful, featuring jazz standards and some pop tunes as well as Buster Bailey, Gus Fetterer, Buck Scott, Joe Marsala, Conrad Lanoue, Danny Barker, Zeb Julian and Cozy Cole
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The Chicago-based West End Jazz Band (featuring Mike and Leah Bezin, Frank Gualtieri, John Otto, Mike Walbridge, Wayne Jones and Mike Albiniak) was especially active in the first fifteen years of the 21st Century and specialized in Hot Dance. Here, they play a series of selections recorded in the 1920's by the Coon Sanders Nighthawks. Terrific arrangements - the six piece band sounds like at least ten!
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Great recordings made by Ethel Waters in 1938 and 1939 for Bluebird . . accompanied by her husband at the time, Eddie Mallory and His Orchestra which included Mallory, Shirly Clay, Tyree Glenn, Castor McCord, Benny Carter, Garvin Bushell, Reginald Beane, Danny Barker, Milt Hinton and Charles Turner
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Rhapsody in Blue is 100 years old as of Febuary, 2024! Here are some historical as well as great jazz performances of the iconic piece - George Gershwin on piano roll and with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Bert Firman (with Carroll Gibbons), Eddie South, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Leroy Smith and Glenn Miller
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Small group sides from 1926-30 recorded by Southside African-American bands in Chicago . . Luis Russell (with George Mitchell, Kid Ory, Barney Bigard, Albert Nicholas, Johnny St. Cyr), Tiny Parham (with Kid Ory, Junie Cobb, Roy Hobson), Frankie Half Pint Jaxon (with Punch Miller), Banjo Ikey Robinson (with Jabbo Smith), and Lloyd Smith.
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First sessions by the Illinois Jacquet Orchestra in 1945 while he was between engagements with Cab Calloway and Count Basie . .eight piece band with his brother Russell on trumpet, Henry Coker or Vic Dickenson on trombone, John Brown on alto, Arthur Dennis on bari, Tom Archia occasionally playing tenor, Sir Charles Thompson on piano, Ulysses Livingston on guitar and Charles Mingus on bass with vocals by Russell and Wynonie Harris . .the focus is on the fleet and inventive tenor playing of the leader with a minimum of the showboating for which he was often criticized
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Bands led by two almost forgotten black musicians from Chicago - drummer Harry Dial and pianist/composer/arranger Alex Hill. In Chicago Harry Dial's Bluesicians included Shirley Clay, Lester Boone, Omer Simeon, George Dixon, Cecil Irwin, and Hayes Alvis . . Hill's band in Chicago from 1930 had Bob Shoffner, George Dixon, Cecil Irwin, Darnell Howard, George James, Zinky Cohn and Sid Catlett . . his 1934 New York band had Joe Thomas, Benny Carter, Clyde Bernhardt, Claude Jones, George James, Albert Nicholas, Gene Sedric, Garnett Clark and others . . excellent sides showcasing many little known players!
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Great unheard jazz from various black groups active in Chicago in the late 1920's - Dave Nelson, Kline Tindall, Vance Dixon, Ernest "Mike" Michall, Cicero Thomas and others producing some exceptionally hot sounds just below the radar . .recordings for Paramount and Gennett.
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Great band straddling swing, bop and R&B, all featuring the Texas tenor, Illinois Jacquet with his brother Russell and Joe Newman on trumpets, J.J. Johnson and Henry Coker on trombones, Ray Perry on alto, Leo Parker and Maurice Simon on baritones, John Lewis and Sir Charles Thompson on piano, John Collins on guitar, Al Lucas on bass and Shadow Wilson on drums
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Bud Freeman was one of the most in-demand sidemen on record sessions in the 1930's - here he is featured extensively with Bunny Berigan (with Forrest Crawford, Chick Bullock), Gene Gifford (with Berigan, Matty Matlock, Claude Thornhill, Morey Samuels), Wingy Manone (with Dicky Wells, Teddy Wilson, Matty Matlock, Gil Bowers, Artie Shaw) and Eddie Condon (with Max Kaminsky, Floyd O'Brien, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Sullivan, Alex Hill) - all between 1933 and 1936.
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Great jazz sides by Richard M. Jones' Jazz Wizards, featuring Shirley Clay, William Franklin, Roy Carew, Omer Simeon, Artie Starks, Johnny St. Cyr, Willie Hightower and others, playing the compositions and arrangements of the New Orleans pianist, composer and talent scout Jones.
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Great studio band playing hot stock arrangements in 1924 and 1925 . . featuring Red Nichols, Mickey Bloom, Miff Mole, Vincent Grande, Charles Panelli, Bennie Krueger, Rube Bloom, Harry Reser, Joe Tarto and others
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Great sessions for Charles Delauney's Swing label in New York in 1946 featuring Benny Carter and The Chocolate Dandies (Buck Clayton, Al Grey, Ben Webster, Sonny White, John Simmons and Sid Catlett), Jonah Jones and His Cats (Tyree Glenn, Rudy Powell, Ike Quebec, Dave Rivera, Milt Hinton, Kansas Fields) and Gene Sedric (Lincoln Mills, Freddy Jefferson, Danny Settle, Slick Jones), including two bonus Sedric tracks for Keynote
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Great early version of the George Lewis band, featuring the trumpet player the leader always said was his favorite - Elmer "Coo Coo" Talbert. Live and transcription recordings from 1949 to 1950 (when Talbert died) also featuring Jim Robinson, Alton Purnell, Lawrence Marrero, Slow Drag Pavageau and Joe Watkins
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Benny Carter led a big band from 1932 until 1947, but none was better than the 1945-46 edition, which split time between New York and Los Angeles. Featured in his regular band are Bumps Myers, Idrees Sulieman, Max Roach, Al Grey, Sonny White and of course Carter himself on alto, trumpet and clarinet, with most of the arrangements being his. The two sessions with his all-star band have some of those musicians plus Trummy Young, Dickie Wells, Emmett Berry, Joe Newman, Don Byas, Flip Phillips and others.
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Tiny Parham was a well known theater musician, arranger and composer who had a series of recording sessions for Victor in 1928-1930 featuring his compositions and arrangements. This show focuses on two sessions, each of which features the New Orleans trumpeter Punch Miller along with Charles Lawson, Charles Johnson, Dalbert Bright, Mike McKendrick and others.
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Three of the few white dance bands in Chicago in the 1930's playing good jazz - Jack and Charlie Teagarden fronting the Charles Lavere band (with Bud Freeman, Rod Cless, Bob Conselman, Dick McPartland), the slightly later Lavere group (with Jabbo Smith, Marty Marsala, Joe Marsala, Joe Masek), and Frankie Trumbauer's short-lived big band featuring mainly himself, but good solos from Joe Harris as well
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Great houseband for Rudi Blesh's radio show "This Is Jazz" in 1947. Selections from two broadcasts of the show and two appearances on the same days by the same band on another program. .. .Wild Bill Davison on cornet, Jimmy Archey on trombone, Ed Hall on clarinet, Ralph Sutton on piano, Danny Barker on guitar, Pops Foster on bass and Baby Dodds on drums.
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Perhaps the first true New Orleans revival session - George Lewis and His Band was essentially the same group that recorded with Bunk Johnson, but with Avery "Kid" Howard bringing a more modern style to the band. Jim Robinson, Lawrence Marrero, Chester Zardis, Edgar Mosely and "Jim Little" (Sidney Brown) round out the group.
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Excellent if unapprecciated big band led by the great pianist Earl Hines. Featuring arrangments by Franz Jackson, Budd Johnson and Gerald Valentine, soloists include Johnson, Jackson, tenor sax player Bob Crowder, alto sax Scoops Carey, clarinets Omer Simeon and Leroy Harris and brass players including John "Streamline" Ewing, Harry Jackson, Walter Fuller and Ed Sims. Vocals by Billy Eckstine!
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The New Orleans trombone player Preston Jackson was an active participant in Southside jazz bands in the 1920's . .here he is featured with Richard M. Jones Jazz Wizards (Shirley Clay, Artie Starks, Johnny St. Cyr, George Reynolds, Clifford "Snags" Jones), Bertha "Chippie" Hill and his own Uptown Band (featuring Jones' musicians) and also Luis Russell's Heebie Jeebie Stompers with Bob Shoffner, Darnell Howard, Barney Bigard and St. Cyr.
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Swing to Bop records made by members of Woody Herman's First Herd in 1944-46 . . groups led by Harris (with Conte Candoli, Alvin Burroughs and Phillips), Berman (Harris, Phillips, Serge Chaloff) and Phillips (Neal Hefti, Harris, Aaron Sachs and Bill Shine) with a more or less steady rhythm section of Ralph Burns, Billy Bauer, Chubby Jackson and either Dave Tough or Don Lamond.
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Teddy Wilson solo piano performances, from his first (unreleased) session in 1934 through some occasional 1941 tracks for Brunswick, ARC and Columbia. He was known as the "Quintessence of Swing" and these somewhat rare solos demonstrate why!
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Small groups that played regularly at Cafe Society and other New York establishments for about four years, led by the great pianist Teddy Wilson. Columbia and transcription recordings featuring Bill Coleman, Emmett Berry, Benny Morton, Jimmy Hamilton, Edmond Hall, George James, Al Hall, Specs Powell, Sid Catlett, Slam Stewart and others . .also Helen Ward and Lena Horne on vocals!
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Small group recordings featuring Woody Herman's First Herd tenor saxophonist - with Earl Hines (Ray Nance, Johnny Hodges, Betty Roche), Red Norvo (Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Teddy Wilson, Slam Stewart) and under his own name with Ralph Burns, Chubby Jackson, Billy Bauer and Don Lamond
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The largely forgotten clarinet player Archie Semple was a mainstay in Alex Welsh's great band in the 1950's and 60's before suffering an emotional and physical breakdown that sadly ended his playing days. Here is a sample of the relatively few tracks he recorded under his own name, featuring Welsh, Dickie Hawdon on trumpet, Roy Crimmins on trombone, Fred Hunt on piano and others, but focusing on the leader's clarinet, reflecting the twin influences of Pee Wee Russell and Edmond Hall
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Lovie Austin was a busy pianist/arranger/composer in Chicago in the 1920's - as one of the few women in an almost exclusively male business she carved out a niche for herself, influencing other women performers to come, such as Mary Lou Williams. Her instrumental recordings are here from 1924-26 and feature Tommy Ladnier, Natty Dominique, Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds, Jimmy O'Bryant, W.E Burton, Priscilla Stewart and others, with Austin holding it all together as a player, arranger and composer.
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Recordings made by one of the greatest versions of the Basie band for Verve in January, 1956. Featuring arrangements by Ernie Wilkins, Neal Hefti, Joe Newman, Frank Wess and Frank Foster and solos by the two Franks, Newman, Thad Jones, Bill Hughes, Henry Coker, Benny Powell, Bill Graham, Marshall Royal and the great rhythm section of Basie, Freddie Green, Eddie Jones and Sonny Payne.
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Trumpeter Welsh led one of the most musical yet exciting trad bands of the 1950's and 60's - with Roy Crimmins on trombone, Archie Semple on clarinet, Fred Hunt on piano and Lennie Hastings on drums (and several guitars and bassists), the band mined a wide range of jazz repertoire from ragtime to New Orleans and swing, all within a Chicago Jazz/Eddie Condon perspective.
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Great Roulette recordings by the New Testament Basie Band reinterpreting the tunes from his 1930's and 40's band. Featuring great work by Billy Mitchell, Henry Coker, Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Jimmy Nottingham, Seldon Powell, Frank Foster, Frank Wess, Marshall Royal, Benny Powell and Basie himself!
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Almost forgotten big band that played at the Savoy in NYC at the same time as Chick Webb. Hopkins was among the best stride pianists of the day and a very good arranger as well - his band included Sylvester Lewis and Ovie Alston on trumpets, Fred Norman and Fernando Arbello on trombones, Gene Johnson and Bobby Sands on saxes and most notably Edmond Hall on clarinet and baritone sax.
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Alex Welsh was known as a traditional/dixieland trumpet player in the 1950's and mid 1960's. By the late 1960's the band had evolved from a Chicago styled group to a mainstream unit featuring trombonist Roy Williams, reed player Johnny Barnes, pianist Fred Hunt, guitar/banjo player Jim Douglas and drummer Lennie Hastings. Ranging from New Orleans numbers through swing and Gerry Mulligan tunes, this group had a good ten year run.
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Series of recordings by Harlem-based big bands, all featuring Ben Webster's emerging tenor sax. . .Benny Carter, Willie Bryant, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, Teddy Wilson and Duke Ellington all prized Webster . . recordings also feature Shad Collins, Irving Randolph, Emmett Berry, Jerry Blake, Keg Johnson, Jake Wiley, Glyn Paque, Garvin Bushell, Leroy Maxey, Shorty Baker, Karl George, Joe Nanton, Barney Bigard and Ivy Anderson . . .
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Bebop meets R&B . . the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (Dizzy, Bill Graham on baritone sax, Wade Legge, Milt Jackson or Wynton Kelly on piano, Al Jones on drums, Percy Heath on bass) with Milt Jackson on vibes, Joe Caroll and Melvin Moore singing, and Stuff Smith on violin. 1951 recordings for DeeGee and Savoy and live at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, 1953.
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Earl Hines' very few solo recordings during this period - Blue Note, Victor and Bluebird as well as a trio with Al Casey and Oscar Pettiford and a Keynote session led by Charlie Shavers with Tab Smith.
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The early recordings by the Charlie Barnet Orchestra (and Glen Island Casino Orchestra and California Ramblers) . . before he hit it big, good records featuring the leader, Kermit Simmons, Chris Griffin (trumpet), Don Morres (clarinet), Bill Miller and Red Norvo (piano) and others . . transitional swing!
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Great early bop sessions led by the innovative drummer including Fats Navarro, Kenny Dorham, Benny Bailey and Howard McGhee on trumpets, Julius Watkins on french horn, Sonny Stitt, John Brown, Jimmy Heath and Hubert Fol on altos, Jimmy Powell, Billy Mitchell and Ray Abrams on tenors, Eddie De Verteuil and Cecil Payne on baris, John Lewis and Bud Powell on piano, John Collins on guitar and Al Hall, Curly Russell and Al McKibbon on basses . . 1946-49
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Great small groups using Woody Herman's musicians (Conte Candoli, Bill Harris, Flip Phillips, Billy Bauer, Tony Aless, Arnold Fishkind, Dave Tough, Shelly Manne, Mel Zelnick, Frank Socolow and Emmett Carls) and some guests including Howard McGhee and Denzil Best. These sides are on the cusp of Bebop, done for Keynote, Prestige and Esquire in 1945, 47, 48 and 49.
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A wide range of 1930's swing groups featuring the great trumpet player Jonah Jones . . groups led by Adrian Rollini, Dick Porter (with Edgar Sampson, Clyde Hart and Joe Marsala), Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson (Benny Goodman, Benny Carter, Ben Webster, Harry Carney, Johnny Hodges) and Lil Armstrong (Don Stovall). Jones' consistency and authority marks him as one of the foremost trumpet players of the era
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Perry Bradford was the epitome of a hustling musician in the 1910's and 20's - largely responsible for bringing the first black singer (Mamie Smith) into the studio to record blues, he also had a series of recordings under his own name, featuring his own compositions and singing. Featured are Louis Armstrong, Louis Metcalf, Bubber Miley, Gus Aiken, Bud Aiken, Jimmy Harrison, Don Redman, Buster Bailey, Bob Fuller, Garvin Bushell, Willie "The Lion" Smith and James P. Johnson among others.
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Selections from two great LPs featuring Brookmeyer playing valve trombone with a rhythm section (including future composer John Williams on piano!) and a blended group using some of Jimmy Giuffre's musicians - Jimmy Raney, Jim Hall, Bill Crow and Osie Johnson
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Great but under-recorded big bands from Harlem of the late 1920's - Leroy Smith's band, Joe Steele, Lloyd Scott's group later taken over by his brother Cecil, Wooding's Grand Central Redcaps. Early solos by Dickie Wells, Bill Coleman, Cecil Scott, Ward Pinkett, Wilbur DeParis, Jimmy Archey, Charlie Holmes, Don Frye and Joe Steele!
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Great studio recordings all featuring Lester Young on tenor sax, Dickie Wells on trombone and Jo Jones on drums, with either Buck Clayton or Bill Coleman on trumpets, Count Basie, Joe Bushkin, Ellis Larkins, Rodney Richardson, Freddie Green, Walter Page, and John Simmons. Recordings for Vocalion, Commodore, Signature and Keynote.
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Great white dance band that recorded prolifically for many companies under many pseudonyms. Featuring soon-to-be stars Johnny Mince on clarinet, Pee Wee Erwin on trumpet, Dick Clark on tenor sax, Mike Doty on alto and Ward Silloway and Les Jenkins on trombones, the real centerpieces were the leader's arrangements, which were terrific examples of the early swing style.
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Early British Trad - The beginnings of the traditional jazz boom in England - New Orleans-styled dixieland by Freddy Mirfield's Garbage Men, Freddy Randall and His Band and George Webb's Dixielanders . .Wally Fawkes, Humphrey Lyttleton, Al Mead, Johnny Dankworth, Bruce Turner . . great hot sounds by young musicians!
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First sides under the great cornetist's name - ranging from straight Condon-styled dixieland through progressive big band sounds in 1939 and 40 to Bix recreations. Also featuring George Brunies, Brad
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The great trumpeter and tenor saxophonist were on tour with Benny Goodman's Sextet (which never recorded) in the spring of 1950 and were engaged, singly and together, for three recording dates for Vogue. Joined by Goodman bandmates Dick Hyman and Ed Shaughnessy on one session and Gerald Wiggins and Kenny Clarke on the other two (with Pierre Michelot on all sides), Eldridge and Sims created a prototype for mainstream jazz!
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Great trio sides with Freeman's tenor sax backed by Jess Stacy and George Wettling in a series of sides for Commodore in 1938 and 1939. Along with that are the two sides by "Four of the Bobcats" from Bob Crosby's band - Eddie Miller, Bob Zurke, Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc. If that weren't enough - there is Freeman's comic skit "Private Jives" with Everett Sloan and Gertrude Lawrence . . .
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The first regular band Chick Webb had at the Savoy Ballroom before Ella Fitzgerald joined. Taft Jordan, Bobby Stark, Sandy Williams, Pete Clark, Edgar Sampson, Elmer Williams, Joe Steele, Don Kirkpatrick, John Truehart, John Kirby and Webb himself created some classic big band sounds largely directed by the compositions and arrangements by Sampson. Records for Columbia, OKeh, Decca.
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Great Capitol recordings from a fairly unheralded period in Ellington's career. These show his abilities as a soloist - accompanied by bass and drums he has free reign to interpret his own works (some standard, some not) and one magnificent version of "All The Things You Are" from 1957.
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James P. Johnson solos - Great solo piano recordings by the great Harlem Stride master from 1921-1930. Several standards and pop tunes, but mostly originals by Johnson!
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Great band that made numerous LPs for Decca from 1951-58 organized around themes - Jelly Roll Morton, Ragtime, King Oliver, ODJB, etc. Featuring the core members - Yank Lawson, Lou McGarity, Bill Stegmeyer, Lou Stein, Bob Haggart and Cliff Leeman, the group was occasionally expanded by Peanuts Hucko, Cutty Cutshall, Billy Butterfield, Bud Freeman and George Barnes - a selection of their dixieland and swing work!
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The flute wasn't a prominent instrument in jazz or dance bands before the 1950's, but here are some excellent outliers . . the Cuban Albert Socarras recorded with Bennett's Swamplanders, Lizzie Miles and Clarence Williams (with Ed Allen, King Oliver, Arville Harris and Cyrus St. Clair) and Wayman Carver was with Benny Carter, Spike Hughes, Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald (Taft Jordan, Red Allen, Bobby Stark, Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Teddy McCrae, Don Kirkpatrick, Teddy Wilson, Sid Catlett and others) and as a bonus, Charles Frazier with Willie Bryant's Orchestra.
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Hardly anyone has heard of Teddy Grace, but her handful of records (two CDs worth) from the 1930's demonstrate a singular talent, appreciated by musicians if not the public. Here she is with Bud Freeman's Summa Cum Laude Band, the Bob Crosby Orchestra and small groups featuring Bobby Hackett, Buddy Morrow, Jack Teagarden, Buster Bailey, Charlie Shavers, Billy Kyle, Sonny Lee and Slats Long
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Great eight piece band ushering in the era of Jazz nostalgia! With the leader on tenor sax was Max Kaminsky, Pee Wee Russell and trombonist and arranger Brad Gowans setting the style. In the rhythm section were Dave Bowman, Eddie Condon and several bassists and drummers.
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Great 1933 sessions by the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra featuring Red Allen, Bobby Stark, Dicky Wells, Hilton Jefferson, Russell Procope, Coleman Hawkins, John Kirby, Horace Henderson and Walter Johnson. Great arrangements by both Hendersons and Will Hudson and some of Hawkins' first ballad performances.
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Live and studio recordings by the Second Herd, 2.0....Getz, Sims and Steward were gone, replaced by Gene Ammons, Jimmy Giuffre and Buddy Savitt, but Serge Chaloff is still there, along with Ernie Royal, Earl Swope, Lou Levy, Terry Gibbs, Shorty Rogers and a guest appearance by Nat "King" Cole - progressive 1949 big band music!
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From 1934-1940 the Six Swingers recorded several hundred sides for Regal Zonophone and Columbia of popular tunes, blues, jazz and novelties. Led by pianist George Scott Wood, the band at different times featured Max Goldberg, Lew Davis, Ted Heath, Tony Thorpe and others, but the star was reed player Freddy Gardner, whose clarinet, baritone and especially alto solos located him in the forefront of European jazz musicians.
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The Benny Goodman Sextet (actually a septet) performed with the big band during the second half of Charlie Christian's tenure with the band in 1940 until he had to leave in the summer of 1941 due to ill health. With Cootie Williams, Georgie Auld, Artie Bernstein and a mix of Count Basie, Kenny Kersey, Milt Raskin and Johnny Guarnieri on piano and Dave Tough, Harry Jaeger and Nick Fatool on drums, the small group had superior jazz talent as well as great arrangements built on the riffs of Christian and his electric guitar.
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Great black band active in Paris during the 1930's - this series of recordings for the Pathe label feature Benny Carter (sax, trumpet and arrangements) on the first session and Bill Coleman, Frank "Big Boy" Goudie, George Johnson and Adelaide Hall on the rest. Throughout is magnificent piano playing by Herman Chittison.
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Some oddly constructed small groups featured by Goodman on his regular radio broadcasts in 1939. This was the time between when Gene Krupa and his replacement Dave Tough left and Charlie Christian appeared and Goodman was obviously trying different things, including using Leonard Ware and George Rose on electric guitar. Also unique was a duo between Goodman and bass player Artie Bernstein on "Tea For Two."
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Two great dance bands from the Hot Dance period - Dave Nelson's Harlem Highlights and Kingsmen with Buster Bailey, Glyn Pacque, Charles Frazier and Wilbur DeParis and the Savoy Bearcats with Joe Steele, Carmelo Jari and Demas Dean . . terrific recordings from mostly forgotten bands and a cameo from King Oliver....
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The "pre-Louis" band . . records done before Louis Armstrong joined the Roseland Ballroom orchestra led by Fletcher Henderson . .this group was still a force to be reckoned with in Harlem music circles . . featuring Elmer Chambers, Howard Scott, Teddy Nixon, Don Redman, Charlie Dixon, Billy Fowler, Ralph Escudero, Kaiser Marshall and Allie Ross, these records also have the first recorded solos of Charlie Green and Coleman Hawkins.
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The great swing era trumpet player on three pickup dates after he left Cab Calloway's band . . the first with Sammy Price (also featuring, Vic Dickenson, Pete Brown, Milt Hinton and JC Heard), second with George Wettling (with Bud Freeman, Dave Bowman, Milt Hinton and George Barnes), and third with Sidney Bechet (with Jimmy Archey, Buddy Weed, Walter Page and Johnny Blowers).
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Spike Hughes was a white British music critic and bass player who had a successful series of recordings for British Decca in the early 1930's. He came to the US in 1933 to record some of his own compositions and arrangements with an all-star band put together by Benny Carter, who used mostly his own band and soloists from Fletcher Henderson and Luis Russell's orchestras. Red Allen, Shad Collins, Dickie Wells, Wayman Carver, Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Red Rodriguez, Sid Catlett and others. Also, the last date Coleman Hawkins recorded with the Henderson band in March, 1934 - Buster Bailey, Red Allen, etc.!
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Not yet "Western Swing," this music is Texas Swing - musicians in the string band tradition who identified as Jazz players. Steel guitarist Bob Dunn, clarinetists John Harvey and Butch Gibson, saxophonist Earl Driver, pianist Landon Beaver, violinist Darrell Kirkpatrick and others play a range of jazz songs (mostly from the 1920's) with a relentless beat and great solos!
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Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers was really just a radio band . . Boyd would record using a floating personnel of whoever was available (much as did Lionel Hampton, Red Allen and Teddy Wilson in New York). Members of Roy Newman's band, the Modern Mountaineers and the Light Crust Doughboys appear on this subset of Boyd's huge discography from the period - slanted mostly towards jazz and pop music of the 1920's these records feature Knocky Parker and Smoky Wood on piano, Marvin Montgomery on banjo, Carroll Hubbard, Jesse Ashlock and J.R. Chatwell on violins and Butch Gibson on clarinet as well as Boyd's brother Jim on bass and vocals.
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The clarinet playing vaudevillian had very popular bands in the 1920's and 30's, but his playing was not it's feature - he would hire fine jazzmen such as clarinetists Don Murray, Jimmy Dorsey, Frank Teschemacher and Slats Long (and Benny Goodman, who we played on a previous show) as well as George Brunies and Muggsy Spanier . . great hot dance from 1928-1933.
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Reed player Bingie Madison had a big band in 1930-31 in Harlem that never recorded under his name but which backed Oliver, Williams and Johnson on a series of sessions. Soloists include Madison on tenor sax, Buster Bailey on clarinet, Fred Skerritt on baritone sax, Henry "Moon" Jones on alto, Gene Rodgers on piano, Goldie Lucas on guitar and banjo, Richard Fullbright on bass and tuba, Bill Beason on drums, Jimmy Archey on trombone, Ward Pinkett and Bill Dillard on trumpets. Great transition between "Hot Dance" and the Swing Era!
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Two great quartet sessions for Aladdin featuring the alto player at the top of his game with either Russ Freeman or Carl Perkins on piano, Ben Tucker on bass and Chuck Flores on drums . . standards, blues and originals.
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Sessions for Keynote (and one for Signature) in 1946 . . Shorty Sherock (featuring Willie Smith, Corky Corcoran, Arnold Ross), Milt Hinton and His Orchestra (featuring Jonah Jones, Al Gibson, Tyree Glenn), Clyde Hurley (with Babe Russin, Murray McEachern, Tommy Todd, Dave Barbour), and Mannie Klein (with Russin, Skitch Henderson, George Van Eps). .late period swing by veterans of the era!
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Great swing sessions for Keynote, mostly on the West Coast led by Herbie Haymer, Corky Corcoran, Babe Russin, Ted Nash in 1945-6. Also featuring Joe Thomas, Clyde Hurley, Emmett Berry, Heinie Beau, Willie Smith, Al Hendrickson, Jud DeNaut, Jackie Mills, Dave Barbour, Tommy Todd, Dodo Marmarosa, Allan Reuss, Arnold Ross, Nick Fatool and others.
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Great brass band recordings for American Music (Bunk Johnson with Kid Shots Madison, George Lewis, Jim Robinson, Baby Dodds, Lawrence Marrero, Joe Clark, Isadore Barbarin and others) and Riverside (George Lewis with Kid Howard, Peter Bocage, Robinson, Dodds, Marrero, Barbarin, Joe Howard). .done in 1945 and 1946 in New Orleans
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The great 1940-41 Ellington band with Ben Webster and Jimmy Blanton (and Cootie Williams, Rex Stewart, Ray Nance, Juan Tizol, Lawrence Brown, Tricky Sam Nanton, Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney and Sonny Greer) doing live and radio transcription versions of the great tunes they recorded for RCA Victor.
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The Wanderers made one recording date in 1935 and placed themselves as an excellent territory jazz band . .featuring three members (Marvin Montgomery on banjo, Dick Reinhart on guitar and Bert Dodson on bass) that went to the Light Crust Doughboys later that year. These are their first records and then a selection of Light Crust DB sides featuring them as well as Kenneth Pitts, Cecil Brower, Muryel "Zeke" Campbell on electric guitar (pre-Charlie Christian!) and the great Knocky Parker on piano
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The Jess Stacy Duo, Trio and Quartet recording for Brunswick, Atlantic, Capitol and Hanover . . featuring the pianist with George Van Epps on guitar, Morty Corb, Artie Bernstein on bass and Nick Fatool on drums.
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Two Cozy Cole sessions (with Coleman Hawkins, Budd Johnson, Eddie Barefield, Johnny Guarnieri), one Walter Thomas (Ben Webster, Budd Johnson, Clyde Hart) and under his own name (Don Byas, Dave Rivera, Milt Hinton, JC Heard) all feature the matchless trumpet of Emmett Berry in 1944 and 1945.
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Lester Young left the Basie band in 1940 to try his hand at bandleading . . It didn't work well so he returned to the fold in the late fall of 1943. No commercial records were made during this period but Lang-Worth transcriptions and AFRS shows fill in the gaps - here is the band with Harry Edison, Joe Newman and Al Killian playing trumpet solos; Dicky Wells on trombone; Earl Warren, Jimmy Powell, Buddy Tate, Lester Young and Rudy Rutherford in the sax section and the Basie rhythm section of the boss, Freddy Green, Rodney Richardson and Jo Jones.
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Two sessions with the great Bob Crosby alumn Eddie Miller - 1979 featuring Johnny Varro, Ray Leatherwood and Gene Estes and 1982 with George Masso, John Bunch, Milt Hinton and Duffy Jackson . .great late period swing!
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The great trumpeter and blues singer's records for Commodore - with Chu Berry's Jazz Ensemble in 1941 (Chu Berry, Clyde Hart, Al Lucas, Jack Parker), Albert Ammons' Rhythm Kings in 1944 with Vic Dickenson, Don Byas, Ammons, Israel Crosby and Sid Catlett) and his own bands in 1944 (Earl Bostic, Byas, Lucky Thompson, Lem Johnson, Hart, Ace Harris, Catlett, John Simmons and others)
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Great sessions for Keynote led by drummers - Cozy Cole (Earl Hines, Trummy Young, Coleman Hawkins, Teddy Walters, Billy Taylor), Cozy with Don Byas (Byas, Aaron Sachs, Shorty Rogers, Vernon Brown), George Wettling (Jack Teagarden, Joe Thomas, Coleman Hawkins, Hank D'Amico, Herman Chittison), and J.C. Heard (Buck Clayton, Flip Phillips, Milt Hinton) . .
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Great sessions organized and led by the underrated trombonist George Masso featuring his superb playing and arrangements as well as his friends reed players Dick Johnson and Al Klink, trumpeter Lou Columbo, pianists Dave McKenna and John Bunch, guitarist Jon Wheatley and others - 1981, 96 and 99.
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Allan Reuss was the student of George Van Eps and he was an important part of the rhythm sections of Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Paul Whiteman, Harry James and Jimmy Dorsey as well as playing casual sessions with Benny Carter, Charlie Ventura, Peck's Bad Boys, Barney Bigard, Vic Dickenson, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton and others . .
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The English pianist Keith Ingham is a treasure trove of American Popular Song and these two dates also show off his arranging and playing abilities. The Hal Smith Trio with Ingham, drummer Smith and clarinetist Bobby Gordon play music of the early 1900's while the swingtet with trumpeter Peter Ecklund, Gordon, guitarist Chris Flory, bass player Murray Wall and drummer Steve Little explore the 1930's.
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Joe Turner (not blues singer Big Joe Turner) was an influential stride pianist of the 1930's who wasn't known to many outside of the piano fraternity. By the late 1940's he had relocated to Europe and made his living playing solo engagements all around the continent. These sides are studio and live tracks done in 1960 in Zurich.
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Artie Shaw and His Orchestra - live broadcasts in the fall of 1938, probably from the Lincoln Hotel in NYC . .featuring John Best, George Arus, Tony Pastor, Georgie Auld, Les Burness, Cliff Leeman and Helen Forrest . .but the focus is on the great clarinet playing!
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Hot Lips Page was a matchless blues singer and trumpet player from Texas who played with many southwestern groups before coming to New York inthe middle 1930's. Here are recordings with Chu Berry (and Clyde Hart, Al Lucas and Jack Parker), Pete Johnson (Albert Nicholas, JC Higginbotham, Ben Webster), Joe Bushkin and Al Morgan and his own trio with Teddy Bunn, Leonard Feather and Bass Hill
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Basie's "New Testament" band of the early 1950's was a classic group that recorded for Clef. At the same time he did several Nonet, Sextet and Quintet sides featuring some of his prime soloists (Joe Newman, Paul Quinichette, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis) and guests (Oscar Peterson, Buddy Rich). Great mainstream jazz!
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Johnny Dunn was the first great jazz star in the African American community in New York and was the primary cornet influence on the music before Louis Armstrong appeared in the fall of 1924. These records were made in 1921, 22, and 23 with a cast of early jazz players including Herschel Brassfield, Ernest Elliott, Herb Flemming, Earl Granstaff, John Mitchell, Sam Speed, Harry Hull and Jesse Baltimore who were all part of Johnny Dunn's Original Jazz Hounds.
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After several years with Benny Goodman in the 1930's, Vido Musso later went with Gene Krupa, Harry James and Stan Kenton and began his own bandleading career. These sessions come from Savoy in 1946 (with Sanford Gold, Marty Napoleon, Kai Winding, Gene Roland, Boots Mussulli, Lem Davis and Eddie Safranski), Sunset (with Willie Smith, Andre Previn and Howard McGhee), Atlantic (Jess Stacy, Murray McEachern, Ziggy Elman) and Modern - his own band with Kenton alumni!
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Called The Thesaurus Rhythm Makers (as were all the dance bands recording for that company), this group is unmistakably Shaw's, doing tunes they recorded commercially for Brunswick and some they never did again - all featuring either Max Kaminsky or John Best on trumpet, George Arus on trombone, Tony Pastor on tenor sax and vocals, Les Burness on piano and Cliff Leeman on drums!
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Great singer -the best Ellington ever had - heard here fronting her own group (mostly Ellington's band), the Gotham Stompers (a combination of Ellington's and Chick Webb's bands) and two all stars sessions for Black and White on the West Coast. Featuring Johnny Hodges, Willie Smith, Harry Carney, Cootie Williams, Karl George, Lucky Thompson, Irving Ashby, Charles Mingus, Chick Webb, Joe Nanton, Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Buddy Collette and others!
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Early followers of the first jazz band - Earl Fuller's band with Ted Lewis and the Louisiana Five with New Orleans natives Alcide "Yellow" Nunez and Anton Lada along with Charlie Panelli. Very vigorous and hot jazz of the pre 1920's!
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Great band in the style of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band led by clarinetist Claude Luter . . before he became a Bechet fanatic he was a Johnny Dodds stylist and his band brings out the early New Orleans sounds very well in a program of mostly standard tunes but with a few originals thrown in . .Christian Azzi, Pierre Merlin, Moustache Galipedes .. .
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The Washingtonians, as they played at the Kentucky Club in New York . . featuring Bubber Miley, Harry Cooper, Leroy Rutledge, Charlie Irvis, Joe Nanton, Otto Hardwick, Prince Robinson, Don Redman, Jimmy Harrison, Fred Guy, Bass Edwards, Mack Shaw and Sonny Greer . .all pre-Cotton Club!
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Live dates over two stays at the Crescendo Club by Ella Fitzgerald, one with Lou Levy, Herb Elllis, Wilfred Middlebrooks and Gus Johnson and the other with Paul Smith, Middlebrooks and Stan Levey . . great unfettered singing - some highly arranged, some spontaneous and great audience interaction!
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Sun Ra (born Herman Blount) was a talented pianist and composer who played and arranged for one of Fletcher Henderson's last bands. He began collecting a company of musicians around him in the 1950's including tenor saxophonist John Gilmore, baritone saxist Pat Patrick, altoist Marshall Allan and others. They created a music that began as hard bop, moved through soul and then became something quite extraordinary! Here are examples (issued as singles on Ra's label Saturn) from all those periods
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Albert Nicholas was the only New Orleans musician here - a great clarinetist who had played with King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and Luis Russell, he had relocated to Europe by the middle 1950's and here is presented with a band of French players recording for Vogue and Club Francais. Great trio sides (with Claude Bolling and Kansas Fields) and two bands including trumpeter Guy Lognon and trombonist Benny Vasseur.
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Leo Watson was a drummer, trombone and tipple player, although he was best known as a scat singer . . .here are his records with Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa, Vic Dickenson, Jack Teagarden and the John Kirby Sextet - well worth listening to! The Robin Williams of the scat singing world . . .
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Sammy Lowe was a trumpet player and arranger with the 'Bama State Collegians and Erskine Hawkins Orchestra. Initially inspired by the Lunceford sound and Sy Oliver's arrangements, Lowe created a style that set off Hawkins' soloists, including Dud Bascomb on trumpet, baritone sax and clarinetist Haywood Henry, tenor saxophonists Julian Dash and Paul Bascomb, pianist Avery Parrish and the high trumpet notes of the leader.
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Great solo piano recordings for ARA (listen to the story of that label - quite a surprise!) and V Disc all done in the second half of 1945 when Tatum was at his absolute peak of technique and invention.
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Basie small groups - for Columbia in 1942 with Buck Clayton and Don Byas and Victor in 1947 with Emmett Berry, George Matthews, C.Q. Price, Paul Gonsalves, Jack Washington and all with the classic Basie, Freddy Green, Walter Page and Jo Jones . . .
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From solo breaks (James Reese Europe, Wilbur Sweatman, ODJB, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong) to solos on blues (ODJB, NORK, Johnny Dunn, King Oliver, Louis) to real jazz improv (Trumbauer, Bix, Hawkins, Louis) . . the evolution of the solo jazz player in the 1920's . . all leading to Louis Armstrong!
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The Harlem Hamfats recorded for Decca from 1936-40 or so, making several hundred sides under their own name as well as backing up singers and other entertainers. Consisting of the New Orleans trumpeter Herb Morand, Chicago clarinetist Odell Rand, pianist Horace Malcolm, brothers Charlie and Joe McCoy on guitar and vocals (and Charlie on mandolin), John Lindsay on bass and Pearlis Williams on drums, the group combined swing, dixieland and blues in an energetic way that kept their records on jukeboxes for a decade after they stopped recording.
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The Harry James Orchestra in 1940 between its contracts with Columbia recorded several sessions for the small Varstiy label - here we have some great jazz sides including work by Vido Musso, Sam Donahue, Dalton Rizzoto, Dave Matthews and Jack Gardner with the best solos from the leader . . also some seldom-heard vocals by Dick Haymes!
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Three sessions done for World - two of which were basically copied from or to better known sessions on Commodore with identical bands . . the Davison band has George Brunies, Pee Wee Russell, Gene Schroeder, Eddie Condon, Bob Casey and George Wettling; the second Spanier session has Pee Wee, Condon and Casey with Ernie Caceres, Dick Cary and Joe Grauso and the first Spanier one (done in Chicago) has Warren Smith, Bud Jacobsen, Jack Gardner, Pat Pattison and Frank Rullo
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Erskine Hawkins led a great band from 1939-1950, billed as the "Twentieth Century Gabriel" due to his penchant for trumpet histrionics coupled with an excellent band and fine soloists. His first group was almost the same personnel - a group of students form Alabama Teacher's College including Dud Bascomb, Paul Bascomb, Sammy Lowe, Jimmy Mitchelle, Haywood Henry and Avery Parrish. Their first recordings (for Vocalion) showed a very capable band with terrific soloists following in the direction of the Jimmie Lunceford band, especially with the lead alto of Bill Johnson and the Sy Oliver-influenced arrangements of Lowe.
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Quartet, Quintet and Sextet sessions from the great bebop trumpet player in 1946 and 47 on both coasts . .great originals and innovative takes on standards with Teddy Edwards and James Moody on tenor saxes, Dodo Marmarosa, Hank Jones and Jimmy Bunn on piano, Milt Jackson on vibes and others . .
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Sessions for Commodore and World Transcriptions of a band led by the trend setting trombonist of the 20's, Miff Mole. Great 1940's dixieland with either Bobby Hackett (Commodore) or Sterling Bose (World) on trumpet, Pee Wee Russell, Ernie Caceres, Gene Schroeder, Eddie Condon, Bob Casey and Joe Grauso
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Three blues-based sessions by the great Kansas City vocalist accompanied by his swing era brethren - Emmett Berry, Pat Jenkins, Lawrence Brown, Vic Dickenson, Henderson Chambers, Rudy Powell, Ben Richardson, Sammy Price, Pete Johnson, Clarence Johnson, Freddie Green, Roy Gaines, Walter Page, Aaron Bell, Marlowe Morris, Jo Jones
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Almost forgotten Frank Chace was a Chicago-styled clarinet player who sounded like Pee Wee Russell, but was not just an imitator. Here he brings his sound and unique approach to bands including Wild Bill Davison, Eddie Hubble, George Wein, Yank Lawson, Eddie Miller, Dave Remington, Sid Dawson, Don Ewell, Dewey Jackson, Tom Pletcher, Hal Smith, Jimmy Archey, Johnny Frigo, Ted Butterman and Jim Kweskin from 1951-1987.
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New York Swing was a quartet of some of the most experienced and professional rhythm players in New York in the 1990's . .pianist John Bunch, guitarist Bucky Pizarelli, bassist Jay Leonhard and either Dennis Mackrel or Joe Cocuzzo on drums . . from their albums devoted to the music of Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart.
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Rudy Williams was a journeyman sax player who stylistically crossed between swing and bebop. The son of legendary/notorious bandleader Fess Williams and the cousin of Charles Mingus, Williams is here heard on alto sax with a pickup group put together by Baron Timme Rosenkrantz in 1939 (with Don Byas, Tyree Glenn, Rex Stewart, Russell Procope, Billy Kyle, Walter Page and Jo Jones), the Savoy Sultans (his regular band from 1937-1941 or so), a Don Byas group (with Charlie Shavers and Clyde Hart), Tadd Dameron's Sextet (with Fats Navarro, Allan Eager, Kenny Clarke and Curly Russell), Bennie Green's Sextet (on baritone, with Teddy Brannon and Lockjaw Davis) and the Howard McGhee Korean All-Stars (on tenor, with J.J. Johnson and Skeeter Best).
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Early recordings by the classic Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen British Trad group - Ball on trumpet, John Bennett on trombone Dave Jones on clarinet, Ron Weatherburn on piano, Paddy Lightfoot on banjo and guitar, Vic Pitts on bass and Ron Bowden on drums with Ball and Lightfoot handling the vocals. Recorded in the early 1960's for Pye, these sides were charted successes before coming out on LP a bit later.
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Great Argentinian trad band from the late 1960's and early 70's . . retranslating rather than recreating the music of some of the hot dance bands of the 1920's - Henderson, Ellington, Luis Russell and lesser known gems from Clarence Williams, Joe Candullo and the Missourians
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Great regional bands of the late 1920's from the Southwest and Midwest featuring up and coming players like Julia Lee, Budd Johnson, Jimmy Crawford, Buster Smith, Hot Lips Page, Jimmy Rushing, Jack Washington and Walter Page with several well known local groups who were fortunate enough to make records!
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The 1925 version of the Henderson band from the last recordings with Louis Armstrong to the first one with Rex Stewart - well played and crisp stock arrangements with great solos
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The last great Kansas City big band from 1940-43 featuring Charlie Parker as its main soloist, although pianist McShann was one of the best of his generation. Live broadcasts and studio sessions for Decca show this important transitional group which also has Orville Minor, Paul Quinichette, John Sparrow and John Jackson soloing as well as singer Walter Brown.
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The great New Orleans clarinetist Jimmie Noone had prolific life in the recording studio with his band, variously called the Apex Club, El Rado or Nest Orchestra, the two reed front line was unique, as was the focus on sophisticated pop songs of the day in addition to jazz and blues. In these last four sessions (1931, 33, 34, and 35) Noone is paired with saxophonist and vocalist Eddie Pollack and occasionally trumpeter Jimmy Cobb along with either Zinky Cohn or Earl Hines on piano, John Henley on guitar, either Quinn Wilson or John Lindsay on bass and Benny Jackson on drums.
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The early version of the classic Moten orchestra recording for Victor - featuring Lammar Wright, Ed Lewis, Paul Webster, Thamon Hayes, Harlan Leonard, Jack Washington, Woodie Walder, Sam Tall, Leroy Berry, Vernon Page and Willie McWashington with the leader on piano - some great territory jazz that became an early prototype of the Basie band of the 1930's.
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Two (or possibly four) sessions with the young boppers, probably aimed at the jukebox market. Both sessions feature the vibes of Milt Jackson and piano of Will Davis . . the McGhee date for Savoy features the trumpet playing standards and originals with Jimmy Heath on alto and bari and Percy Heath. The Stitt session features the alto player in Detroit playing a series of very short tracks with Jackson, Davis and a local group but with particularly outstanding saxophone playing!
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Great band sides with Hawkins for Keynote and Signature in 1943 and 44 featuring Bill Coleman, Andy Fitzgerald, Ellis Larkins, Jimmy Shirley, Teddy Wilson, Buck Clayton and Roy Eldridge with superb tenor sax playing from the leader at his peak!
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Harlan Leonard played lead alto sax for Benny Moten from 1924-1931 and then started his own band with Thamon Hayes. By 1939 Leonard had taken it over completely and had developed a group on the tradition of Moten and Basie, but with progressive tendencies demonstrated by the first arrangements of Tadd Dameron and outstanding playing by tenor saxophonist Henry Bridges and particularly trombonist Fred Beckett, who was cited as an important influence by J.J. Johnson later . .
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Great big band resident at the Dreamland Ballroom in Chicago during the 1920's featuring Freddie Keppard, Jimmy Noone, Joe Poston, Johnny St. Cyr, Andrew Hillaire, Fred Garland and others playing some hot but sophisticated dance music from the Jazz Age!
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The long series of recordings for Victor and Bluebird led by Lionel Hampton featured a wide array of black and white jazz musicians of the period - here we focus on those including members of the Duke Ellington band - Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Lawrence Brown, Rex Stewart, Cootie Williams, Sonny Greer and Billy Taylor along with Buster Bailey, Edgar Sampson, Jess Stacy, Allan Reuss, Cozy Cole and Clyde Hart . .all featuring the leader on vibes, piano, drums and vocals!
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Great recordings done for Concord (live and in studio) in Tokyo in the twilight of the singer Maxine Sullivan's career - superb versions of standards and not-so-standards backed by one of the great young groups of the period - Scott Hamilton, John Bunch, Chris Flory, Phil Flanagan, Chuck Riggs
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Great early recordings for Pathe and Perfect by Annette Hanshaw - one of the first "crooners" of Tin Pan Alley tunes . . accompanied by Vic Berton, Adrian Rollini, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Jimmy Lytell, Irving Brodsky and Rube Bloom
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The great New Orleans clarinet and soprano sax player Bechet leading some small groups for RCA Victor in 1940 and 1941 - great arrangements of both standards and originals featuring Red Allen, Gus Aiken, Sidney DeParis, Henry Goodwin, Sandy Williams, J.C. Higginbotham, Vic Dickenson, Lem Johnson, Cliff Jackson, Don Donaldson, James Tolliver, Bernard Addison, Wilson Myers, Wellman Braud, Manzie Johnson, J.C Heard and Sid Catlett among others . .
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The Bennie Moten band was the primary African-American band in Kansas City and the Oklahoma, St. Louis and Chicago regions for almost the entirety of the 1920's . . here we have their first recordings for OKeh and first two for Victor, chronically their development from 1923's New Orleans-styled group to the almost Fletcher Henderson sound of 1926 featuring Woodie Walder on clarinet, Lammar Wright on cornet, Thamon Hayes on trombone, Harlan Leonard on alto and Moten himself on piano.
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Louis Jordan was a fine jazz player, but his fame lay more in the direction of novelty and entertainment with a healthy dose of blues and what came to be known as Rhythm and Blues (and early Rock and Roll). Here, he is at the start of his bandleading career with some great arrangements of blues and old standards featuring himself on alto and baritone saxes along with Courtney Williams, Lem Johnson, Stafford Simon, Clarence Johnson, Arnold Thomas and others.
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Great meetings of like instruments - Trombone Choir with Benny Morton, Bill Harris, Vic Dickenson and Claude Jones; Trumpet Ensemble with Roy Eldridge, Joe Thomas and Emmett Berry; Sax Ensemble with Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas, Tab Smith and Harry Carney . . great rhythm sections all featuring Johnny Guarnieri!
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Claude Thornhill led several of the most innovative bands of the Swing Era. With french horns, tubas and a clarinet section he created arrangements like "Snowfall" that were almost impressionistic . . by 1947 he was using arrangers like Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan and Rusty Dedrick who incorporated bebop and soon to be "Cool" influences into his style as well . . great soloists such as Lee Konitz, Danny Polo, Red Rodney, Barry Galbraith and Mickey Folus are also featured on these studio recordings for Columbia and electric radio transcriptions.
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Hawkins at the peak of his ability - his tenor sax is here featured with quartets including Teddy Wilson, Eddie Heywood, Jr., Israel Crosby, Oscar Pettiford, Cozy Cole and Sid Catlett
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A studio version of the Gene Krupa Orchestra from the 1950's featuring re-arrangements of his hits from the 1940's - with Anita O'Day, Roy Eldridge, Dave McKenna, Barry Galbraith Eddie Shu, Aaron Sachs, Jimmy Cleveland, Ernie Royal, Kai Winding, Urbie Green, Phil Woods, Eddie Wasserman and Hank Jones!
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Sidney Bechet unfettered, with just rhythm sections recording for Blue Note and Victor 1939-41 . .great sides including "Summertime," "Strange Fruit," and "Blues in Thirds"
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Great Harlem band playing between Atlantic City and the Paradise club in NYC . . pianist Johnson is heard with Benny Waters (who did most of the arrangements), Ben Whitted, Benny Carter, Edgar Sampson, Jabbo Smith, Sidny DeParis, Leonard Davis, Thomas Morris, Gus Aiken, Charlie Irvis, Jimmy Harrison, George Stafford, Cyrus St. Clair and Bobby Johnson, with vocals by Monette Moore!
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Earl Hines was in Paris in November, 1949 with the Louis Armstrong All Stars and Vogue Records used his presence on two recording sessions- one of solos and one with a trio, quartet and quintet including his fellow All Stars Barney Bigard and Arvell Shaw. Rounding out the group was trumpeter Buck Clayton, who was touring France at the same time with his own group, featuring drummer Wallace Bishop (who had played with Hines' big band in the 1930's).
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How'm I Doin? The Capitol recording of Sharkey Bonano - New Orleans trumpeter's recording from 1949-53 featuring Santo Pecora, Jack Delaney, Lester Bouchon, Harry Shields, Bujie Centobie, Jeff Riddick, Arthur Pons, Monk Hazel, Lizzie Miles and Buglin' Sam Dekemel.
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Freddie Keppard was king before King Oliver and he fortunately recorded quite a bit in Chicago in the 1920's, although many items are up for debate . . Here he is definitely with his own Jazz Cardinals, Cookie's Gingersnaps and Jimmy Bertrand. Somewhat less certain are the records with Jimmy Blythe, Sarah Martin and the Kansas City Stompers, although all have great jazz regardless!
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WETF Show - the records made by promoter Joe Davis in the mid 1940's . . great small group swing directed by saxophonist Walter "Foots" Thomas featuring Coleman Hawkins, Emmett Berry, Charlie Shavers, Ben Webster, Budd Johnson, Eddie Barefield, Ernie Caceres, Milt Yaner, Hilton Jefferson, Clyde Hart, Thelonious Monk and others!
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Before his landmark Free Jazz album of 1960 Coleman recorded two albums for Contemporary (Something Else and Tomorrow is the Question) documenting his progress and evolution. With Don Cherry, Billy Higgins, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, Walter Norris, Percy Heath and Don Payne and the first recordings of "Lorraine" and "Tears Inside" - remarkably tonal music in the bebop tradition with some avante garde touches.
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Great sides on the more swing-side done by Bechet's New Orleans Feetwarmers for Victor . . Rex Stewart, John Lindsay, Baby Dodds, Herb Jeffries and Earl Hines on one date; Willie the Lion Smith, Charlie Shavers, Everett Barksdale, Wellman Braud and either Manzie Johnson or Big Sid Catlett on the other two.
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The great New Orleans clarinetist Johnny Dodds made three sessions in the spring and fall of 1927 with a band he called the Black Bottom Stompers . .in a trio with Lil Armstrong and Bud Scott and two full bands with Natty Dominique, George Mitchell, Louis Armstrong, Roy Palmer, John Thomas, Barney Bigard, Earl Hines, Charlie Alexander, Bud Scott and Baby Dodds as well as one guest reunion with King Oliver in 1926. These well-recorded sides show why he was held in such esteem from his earliest performing days until his death in 1940.
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Miles on the side - Miles Davis recording as a sideman in the 1950's with Lee Konitz, Al Cohn and Cannonball Adderley - with Sal Mosca, Billy Bauer, Max Roach, Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey, Zoot Sims, Sonny Truitt, Hank Jones, John Lewis and others!
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The great baritone saxophonist Leo Parker - one of the two bebop bari players (with Cecil Payne) . .a short, but telling career. Here he is with guitarist Bill Jennings in 1954 and on his two Blue Note LPs recorded in 1961, six months before he died. Also featuring Dave Burns, John Burks, Bill Swindell, Johnny Acea, Yusef Salim, Stan Connover, Purnell Rice and others
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Ellington and others . . The 1929-31 version of Duke Ellington's Cotton Club band in their recordings of non-Ellington tunes! Cootie Williams, Joe Nanton, Bigard, Hodges, Carney, etc . . great playing on little-issued recordings of the period still sounding distinctive.
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Thomas Morris was one of the first call trumpet players in Harlem Jazz circles in the early 1920's. These are sides he recorded with his Seven Hot Babies and related groups for Victor in 1926 and 1927 . .some great playing by little known musicians including Ward Pinkett, Charlie Irvis, Geechie Fields, Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton, Ernest Elliott, Bob Fuller, Happy Caldwell, Mike Jackson, Lee Blair, Buddy Christian, Bill Benford and Wellman Braud
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Benny Goodman on the side . . 1929-31 sideman recordings before he became the King Of Swing . .with Jack Pettis and His Pets, Rube Bloom and His Bayou Boys, The Charleston Chasers and the Venuti-Lang All Star Orchestra (with Jack Teagarden, Charlie Teagarden, Mannie Klein, Tommy Dorsey, Bill Moore, Dick McDonough, Adrian Rollini, Frank Signorelli and Eva Taylor)
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Nat Gonella - the first popular British jazz artist, here on the first records under his own name. Very Louis Armstrong-inspired playing and singing with small groups including the under-recorded pianist Garland Wilson, the tenor saxophonist Don Barrigo and many players from the Roy Fox Orchestra of the period (1931-34) before Gonella went out on his own with his Georgians.
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Mainstream - more Vanguard sides featuring the Vic Dickenson Septet (with Ruby Braff, Shad Collins, Edmund Hall, Sir Charles Thompson, Steve Jordan, Walter Page, Les Erskine and Jo Jones) and the Mel Powell Septet (with Braff, Hall and Henderson Chambers)
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New Music of Reginald Foresythe - original music by a true original. The black British pianist who was known as the composer of Earl Hines' them "Deep Forest" and things like "Dodging a Divorcee" and "Serenade to a Wealthy Widow" and his very unusual arrangements for woodwinds and rhythm. His last date in the US featured soon to be swing stars Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Toots Mondello, Hymie Schertzer and Johnny MInce!
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Mel Powell on Vanguard . .great trio, quartet and quintet sessions from 1954 and 1955 featuring Ruby Braff, Paul Quinichette, Skeeter Best, Bobby Donaldson and Oscar Pettiford with the great Mel Powell on piano
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WETF Show - Black and White keys . . recordings featuring pianists recorded for the Black and White label in the early and mid 1940's. ..Nat Jaffe, Cliff Jackson, Dick Cary and Gene Schroeder assisted by George Wettling, Joe Grauso and Bob Casey
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Ben Webster in the 1940's - matchless tenor sax player guesting with several groups from 1944-46 . . Tony Scott (with Dizzy Gillespie, Trummy Young), Benny Carter (Buck Clayton, Sid Catlett and Al Grey), Al Hall (Dick Vance, Clyde Hart) and Teddy Wilson (Buck Clayton).
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Recordings from the mid to late 1940's led by clarinet players exploring the new Bebop sounds - Hank D'Amico (with Frankie Newton and Don Byas), Tony Scott (with Dizzy Gillespie, Trummy Young and Ben Webster), Aaron Sachs (with Gene DiNovi, Tiny Kahn, Clyde Lombardi and Terry Gibbs) and Buddy DeFranco (with Teddy Charles and Harvey Leonard)
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The Basie Bunch .. recordings for Vanguard in 1957 featuring Buck Clayton, Emmett Berry, Vic Dickenson, Benny Green, Earl Warren, Lucky Thompson, Nat Pierce, Hank Jones, Freddie Green, Kenny Burrell, Walter Page, Aaron Bell, Jo Jones, and on one number, Basie himself!
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The Little Ramblers - small group recordings from the California Ramblers . . Goofus Five, Little Ramblers and the Five Birmingham Babies featuring Adrian Rollini, Bobby Davis, the Dorsey Brothers, Red Nichols, Bobby Moore, Chelsea Quealy, Sam Ruby and Abe Lincoln among others - great hot jazz from the mid 1920's!
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Lucky Thompson - sides recorded by the great and largely forgotten tenor sax man from 1944-54 with Hot Lips Page, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Freddie Green, Clark Terry, Slim Gaillard, Marshall Royal, Buck Clayton, Karl George, Dickie Wells, Urbie Green, Milt Jackson, Al Haig, Willie Smith, Howard McGhee . .
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Three sessions focused around clarinetist Leonard "Bujie" Centobie . . George Hartman and His Orchestra with Julian Laine, Roy Zimmerman, Johnny Castaing, Vernon Brown, Frank Froeba, Jack Lesberg and George Wettling. Mike Lo Scalzo and His Dixieland Woodchoppers with Phil Napoleon, Brad Gowans, Chuck Wayne and Tony Spargo.
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Fats on the Side - Fats Waller the sideman recording with Jack Teagarden, Ted Lewis, the Rhythmakers, Fletcher Henderson and Red McKenzie . .featuring Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Sterling Bose, Pee Wee Russell, Tommy Ladnier, Buster Bailey, Joe Smith, Red Allen, Billy Banks and others! Small group and big band jazz from 1926-33.
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Black and White reeds - Pee Wee Russell, Mezz Mezzrow, Bingie Madison and Rod Cless on the Black and White label . .mid 1940's recordings with Sterling Bose, George Wettling, Bob Casey, Joe Grauso, Hank Duncan, Cliff Jackson, Gene Schroeder and James P. Johnson
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The Retrogressive . . Bob Brookmeyer's albums Traditionalism Revisited and Kansas City Revisited from 1958 and 1959, featuring tunes associated with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Bix Beiderbecke, Jelly Roll Morton, Count Basie and Billie Holiday . .with Jimmy Giuffre, Jim Hall, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Paul Quinichette, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Hank Jones, Nat Pierce, Charlie Persip, Eddie Jones, Freddie Green and Big Miller
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Jack Pettis was one of the first saxophonists in Jazz - playing C melody with Ben Bernie and His Orchestra, he also headed numerous recording dates with the same personnel - here we have him with Bill Moore, Tony Parenti, Don Murray, Al Goering, Jimmy Dorsey, Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti among others . . great hot dance music with jazz ingredients from 1926-29
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Rosemary Clooney - selection of her recordings for Concord from 1988-1993 with Scott Hamilton, Warren Vache, John Oddo, Bucky Pizzarelli, Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton and special appearances by Jack Sheldon and John Pizzarelli
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Great series of recordings by Slim Gaillard's Flat Foot Floogie Boys including Cyril Newman, Al Killian, Henry Goodwin, Garvin Bushell, Herman Tindall, Kenneth Hollon, Lournell Morgan, Slam Stewart, Nick Fenton and others - fun originals and terrific jazz playing
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Wingy Manone - 1934 . .recordings with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings and Wingy Manone and His Orchestra featuring Eddie Miller, Sidney Arodin, Santo Pecora, George Brunies, Terry Shand, Gil Bowers, Nappy Lamare, Bennie Pottle, Bob White and Ray Bauduc . .trad before trad
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Swing Mr. Bunny - Bunny Berigan and the house band from the Famous Door in 1936 featuring the virtually forgotten tenor and clarinet man Forrest Crawford along with Joe Bushkin, Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, Mort Stuhlmaker, Carmen Mastren, Frank Signorelli, Red McKenzie, Cozy Cole and Stan King doing small group jazz under the leadership of Berigan, McKenzie and the Mound City Blue Blowers
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Venuti and Lang with vocalists! Recordings from 1927-32 of the classic duo backing Annette Hanshaw, the Ponce Sisters, Reis and Dunn, Red McKenzie and Cliff Edwards. Including Adrian Rollini, Jimmy Dorsey, Art Schutt and Frank Signorelli
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First recordings led by the great tenor saxophonist Lucky Thompson n 1945-47. All done on the West Coast and featuring Karl George, J.J. Johnson, Rudy Rutherford, Freddie Green, Bill Doggett, Dodo Marmarosa, Jackie Mills, Benny Carter, Neal Hefti, Barney Kessel and others
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Stompin' Around - 1935 radio transcriptions of the Casa Loma Orchestra featuring Gene Gifford arrangements and solos by Sonny Dunham, Grady Watts, Billy Rausch, Clarence Hutchenrider, Pat Davis, Joe Hall and Tony Briglia . .great on the cusp of swing playing!
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Great 1930's sides led by Red McKenzie and the Mound City Blue Blowers with Muggsy Spanier, Coleman Hawkins, Eddie Miller, Bunny Berigan, Yank Lawson, Nappy Lamare, Gil Bowers, Ray Bauduc and others
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Trumpeter Art Farmer was in France and Sweden with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra in the Fall of 1954 and recorded with several groups, including two under his own name . . these sides feature Clifford Brown, Jimmy Cleveland, Anthony Ortega and Clifford Solomon from the Hampton band as well as Swedish stars Ake Persson, Bengt Hallberg, Arne Domnerus and Lars Gullin playing Quincy Jones arrangements and blending the hard bop and cool styles
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Most of the recordings released under the name of the great guitarist Eddie Lang . . .1927-33 featuring great guitar solos as well as duets with Frank Signorelli or Art Schutt. Also some great band sides with Tommy Dorsey (on trumpet as well as trombone), Jimmy Dorsey, Leo McConville, Andy Secrest, Charles Strickfadden, Izzy Friedman, Joe Tarto and Stan King.
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Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone on Decca . . 1937 and 1938 sessions for the two innovative New Orleans clarinetists backed by a swing band including Charlie Shavers, Pete Brown, Teddy Bunn, John Kirby, Wellman Braud and O'Neil Spencer
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Dick Johnson - great Boston alto player on two albums from the 1950's for Emarcy and Riverside including Dave McKenna, Wilbur Ware and Philly Jo Jones . .great swing and bebop
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Ella and Louis - great duos by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong from three albums 1957-59 backed up by Russ Garcia's Orchestra and the Oscar Peterson Quartet with Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Louis Bellson or Buddy Rich
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Great quartet that existed through most of 1954 - studio session with Ed Hall, Ralph Sutton, Walter Page and Cliff Leeman and broadcasts with Hall, Sutton, Page and Charlie Lodice (and Clyde Hurley added on a few!) - terrific arrangements and fire-y playing all around.
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Classic Jazz Quartet with Marty Grosz, Dick Wellstood, Richard Sudhalter and Joe Muranyi - lp and live performances from the mid 1980's . .great swing playing and arrangements
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Rhythm Wreckers - Dixieland, Swing and Western Swing with Ben Pollack, Harry James, Muggsy Spanier and Irving Fazola. Various 1936-38 sessions run by Ben Pollack with members of his big band backing teenaged cowboy singer Whitey McPherson as well as doing some straight ahead jazz . .
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Woods featured with a range of big bands from the 50's to the 80's - Quincy Jones, Benny Goodman, Jay McShann, Dizzy Gillespie and Gene Krupa
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Jack Teagarden 1939 - his first big band, featuring Ernie Caceres, Charlie Spivak, Dave Tough, Hub Lytle, Lee Castle and others - live and studio recordings
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Paul Howard - great band from Los Angeles in 1929 and 1930 - featuring the very young Lawrence Brown and Lionel Hampton as well as Reginald Forsythe, George Orendorf and Charlie Lawrence.
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Syncopated Yodelin' Man - overcome your prejudices! While the three singers here (Roy Evans, Jimmie Rodgers and Emmett Miller) have definite country and minstrel influence, they are backed by some great bands including the Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman, James P. Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden and Arthur Whetsol
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Saratoga Shout - The great Luis Russell band from 1929-30. Featuring Red Allen, J.C. Higginbotham, Albert Nicholas, Charlie Holmes, William Thornton Blue, Pops Foster and Paul Barbarin among others . . many of the sides released on OKeh by the Russell band as well as several under Red Allen's name for Victor and one backing Louis Armstrong!
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WETF Show - Smoky Mary - the New Orleans record company of the late 1960's and 70's and several sessions featuring the pre-Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Percy Humphrey, Willie Humphrey, Jim Robinson, Frank Demond, Albert Burbank, Sweet Emma Barrett, James Miller, Chester Zardis, Narvin Kimball, Cie Frazier
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These recordings were made for a radio program in Los Angeles in the early 1930's by his "International Orchestra" including Milt Hinton, Antonia Spaulding, Clifford King, George Barnes and Jimmy Bertrand - quite a mix of jazz, tango, rhumba, German, Jewish and Latin music!
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Art Hodes' Blue Five and Chicagoans in the 1940's - great mainstream dixieland from the Chicago pianist and bandleader featuring Max Kaminsky, Ray Conniff (!), Rod Cless, Jack Bland, Sid Jacobs, Bob Haggart, Danny Alvin, Freddie Moore, Pops Foster, Wild Bill Davison and Sidney Bechet.
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Two Brothers - the Adderley brothers, Cannonball and Nat in their first recordings in the summer of 1955. Featuring Kenny Clarke, Horace Silver, Hank Jones, Jerome Richardson, Kenny Dorham, Roy Haynes and Paul Chambers
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Great territory band led by drummer Curtis Mosby in Los Angeles from 1924-1928 or so. You can see them in various early sound films! With Thomas Valentine, Bumps Myers, Henry Starr and others . . .Several little known piano solos (of Jelly Roll Morton tunes among others) by Henry Starr are also here!
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Sidney Bechet in Paris 1949, 52 and 57 . . all sessions featuring Bechet on soprano as the only horn, with Lil Armstrong, Zutty Singleton, Eddie Bernard, Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke, Al Leavitt, Martial Solal
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Swedish Jazz - recordings made in Sweden by jazz players influenced by late swing and early bop musicians - Lars Gullin, Arne Domnerus and many others
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Woodlore - Phil Woods' first recordings! 1954-57 with the Hall Overton Quartet, George Wallington Quartet, Jimmy Raney Quintet and the first under his own name (featuring the pre-Star Wars John Williams on piano!). Also with Kenny Dorham, John Wilson, Knobby Totah, Nick Stabulas, Teddy Kotick.
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Jack Teagarden - recordings for Period and Decca in the mid 1950's just after he put together his own Dixieland Sextet - featuring Jimmy McPartland, Fred Greenleaf, Dick Cary, Charlie Teagarden, Ed Hall, Kenny Davern, Jay St. John, Norma Teagarden, Carl Kress, Walter Page, Ray Bauduc, and Jo Jones
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Echoes of Ellington - 1976 concert by Chris Barber's Jazz and Blues Band featuring Russell Procope and Wild Bill Davis . . also with Pat Halcox, John Slaughter and John Crocker. Great British trad band that had branched out into blues and swing and is here presenting some of the finest solo work by Procope and Davis.
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Eddie South . . recordings in the late 1930's and 40's of the "Dark Angel of the Violin" - mostly with his own trio and quartet but with a guest appearance on the Vaughn Monroe Show - featuring Billy Taylor, Hank Jones and others.
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Jim Cullum, Sr Jazz Band - jazz from San Antonio in the 1960's and 70's - traditional jazz tracks with Jim Cullum Sr and Jr, Cliff Gillette, and others . .
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WETF Show!
Mills Blue Rhythm Band 1934-36 featuring Red Allen, J.C. Higginbotham, Buster Bailey, Tab Smith, Edgar Hayes, Crawford Wethington and Joe Garland with a lot of great Garland arrangements.
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Freddy Gardner - great (if under-remembered) saxophonist in England in the 1930's and 40's - these are great jazz recordings under his own name as well as with Benny Carter, Bert Ambrose , Buck and Bubbles and others . . including Norman Payne, Cecil Norman, Ted Heath, Bill Mulraney and others
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James Moody and Art Blakey - early Bop/Cool/Hard Bop from Blue Note, 1947 and 48. Larger bands featuring Moody, Blakey, David Burns, Kenny Dorham, Ernie Henry, Sahib Shihab, Musa Kaleem, Cecil Payne and others - arrangements by Payne, Dorham, and Gil Fuller.
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Dick Wellstood live from the Sticky Wicket in Holliston, MA in November 1988 . . solo piano spanning ragtime, stride, swing and even some bop thrown in.
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European Bari . . baritone sax players in Europe in the 1950's .. Lars Gullin, William Boucaya, Harry Klein
A great tradition of bari playing - late swing and bebop also featuring a host of other great jazz players from England, France and Sweden.
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WETF Show - Count Basie Live - 1937-38 . . Lester Young, Herschel Evans, Buck Clayton, Dickie Wells, Benny Morton, Jimmy Rushing and Helen Humes with the All American Rhythm Section from the Chatterbox, Savoy and Famous Door!
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A series of little known clarinetists in Europe in the 1950's - Maurice Meunier and Hubert Rostaing (France), Arne Domnerus (Sweden) and Vic Ash (England) with numerous continental jazz stars like Martial Solal, Pierre Michelot and Benny Vasseur treading a middle ground between swing and bop.
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WETF Show - May, 1927. So you think you had a busy week? Listen to the product of one week in May, 1927 - including Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven, The Frank Trumbauer Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke, that Arkansas Travellers with Red Nichols, Louis Armstrong's Stompers, Sol S. Wagner and His Orchestra, The Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Dixie Stompers, Bert Firman, Charles Dornberger
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So Far So Good - a selection of the Columbia recordings of Will Bradley and His Orchestra with Ray McKinley - featuring Peanuts Hucko (on tenor), Bernie Billings, Nick Caiazza, Jo Huffman, Mahlon Clark, Freddie Slack, Billy Maxted, Joe Weidman, Lee Castle and Carlotta Dale - 1939-42!
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Ride, Red, Ride . . recordings by Henry "Red" Allen in the 1950's for Soundcraft, Verve, and Victor . .featuring J.C. Higginbotham, Buster Bailey, Sol Yaged, Earl Warren, Coleman Hawkins, Lou Stein, Marty Napoleon, Milt Hinton, Lloyd Trotman, Cozy Cole, Chubby Jackson, George Wettling, Bob Hammer and Sol Hall
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Hollywood Stomp - Victoria Spivey singing with a variety of jazz and blues accompaniments in the 1930's - Red Allen, Charlie Holmes, Albert Nicholas, Lee Collins, Arnett Nelson, Black Bob, Mr. Sheiks, Bill Owsley
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WETF Program - Stan Getz' West Coast Sessions with Conte Candoli, Lou Levy, Stan Levey, Leroy Vinegar . . great mainstream/bop tenor playing in the late 1950's
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A great but almost forgotten hot band - the Mills Blue Rhythm Band held sway at the Cotton Club and other venues with Irving Mills' other bands (Ellington, Calloway) were otherwise engaged. Pianist Edgar Hayes, trombonist Harry "Fatha" White and later reedman Joe Garland did most of the arrangements which also featured Ed Anderson on trumpet, George Washington on trombone, George Morton and Billy Banks on vocals and reedmen Charlie Holmes, Crawford Wethington and Castor McCord
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Texas Shuffle - live and studio recordings of Count Basie's Orchestra featuring Herschel Evans, 1937-38 . . Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells, Benny Morton, Lester Young, Claude Williams and the All American Rhythm Section . .
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Hot Fingers - Lonnie Johnson with the stars - 1925-29 . . Charlie Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs, Louis Armstrong Hot Five, Blind Willie Dunn/Eddie Lang, Clarence Williams' Jug Band, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Duke Ellington . .great guitar accompaniment and solos!
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Market Street Stomp - hot bands in St. Louis - 1925-27 . . Charlie Creath, Dewey Jackson and Bennie Washington . .featuring William Thornton Blue, Pops Foster, Zutty Singleton, Babe Webb, Burroughs Lovingood and the remarkable singer/drummer Floyd Campbell!
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Southside Strut - Don Ewell Trio and Quartet with Darnell Howard, Minor Hall and Pops Foster for Good Time Jazz in 1956 and 1957 . . great stride, ragtime and barrelhouse!
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My Home Is In A Southern Town - the General recordings of Jelly Roll Morton's Hot Six and Seven, 1940 . .Red Allen, Joe Britton, Claude Jones, Albert Nicholas, Danny Barker, Wellman Braud, Zutty Singleton . . also two live dates with the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street and an impromptu blues
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Songs We Taught Your Mother - Victoria Spivey, Alberta Hunter and Lucille Hegamin in 1960 for Riverside backed by Buster Bailey, J.C. Higginbotham, Sidney DeParis, Cliff Jackson, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Cecil Scott, Herman Autrey, Jimmy Archey, Darnell Howard, Lovie Austin, Pops Foster
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WETF Show Two To Tango - Oscar Peterson with the singers . . 1950's recordings of the Peterson Trio and Quartet backing Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire and Lester Young (!) . .also with Ben Webster Charlie Shavers, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Louis Bellson, etc
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Shadowland Blues - recordings made in Texas during the 1920's of three different bands - Fatty Martin's white hotel group, Leroy William's Dallas Band (a HOT combo) and the legendary Troy Floyd Orchestra - all done 1928/29 (Martin's records were 1925). The first recorded solos by Herschel Evans as well as some great blues accompaniments featuring Don Albert and Siki Collins behind Hattie Burleson and Ben Norsingle.
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Play Mutt Carey - the great early New Orleans trumpeter in the 1920's with Kid Ory and the 1940's with Ory, Barney Bigard, Joe Darensbourg, Buster Wilson, Eddie Garland, Bud Scott, Alton Redd and Minor Hall . .also with Hociel Thomas and his own band with Ed Hall, Jimmy Archey, Albert Nicholas, Cliff Jackson, Hank Duncan, Pops Foster, Baby Dodds and Danny Barker
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Suitcase Blues - The Thomas Family .. George Thomas, Hociel Thomas, Hersal Thomas, Sippie Wallace - blues recordings in Chicago and New York 1925-26, vocal and solo piano. With Rudy Jackson on soprano sax
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Bouncing With Bud - Bud Powell's Blue Note records of 1949, 51, 53 . . Fats Navarro, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Art Taylor, Curly Russell, Tommy Potter, Roy Haynes, George Duvivier . .including great solo performances of "Over the Rainbow" and "It Could Happen To You"
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The Red Back Book Of Rags was published by John Stark in the 1910's and was used by many New Orleans orchestras of that period. These are records by 1940's and 60's bands of New Orleans musicians recreating those sounds from the original music . . Bunk Johnson's Band (Ed Cuffee, Garvin Bushell, Alphonso Steele, Don Frye), Mutt Carey's Band (Ed Hall, Jimmy Archey, Hank Duncan, Baby Dodds, Pops Foster, Danny Barker), Peer Bocage's Creole Band (Louis Cottrell and others), Love-Jiles Ragtime Orchestra (Albert Jiles, Charlie Love, Paul Barnes, Albert Warner, Manny Sayles)
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Tell 'Em 'Bout Me - the Columbia recordings of Ethel Waters, 1925-28 featuring Fletcher Henderson, Joe Smith, Coleman Hawkins, the Plantation Club Orchestra, Don Redman, Horace Holmes, Clarence Williams
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Benny Goodman leading a band including Bunny Berigan, Manny Klein, Jack Jenney, Art Rollini, Art Schutt, Dick McDonough, Artie Bernstein, Gene Krupa, Red McKenzie and others for World Transcriptions in 1934.
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The legendary cornetist with Duke Ellington in the 1920's here featured as a guest and lead player in small groups - The Kansas City Five, Texas Blues Destroyers, orchestras led by Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Hoagy Carmichael, Leo Reisman and his own Bubber Miley's Mileage Makers . .Louis Hooper, Bob Fuller, Jake Frazier, Buster Bailey, Wilbur De Paris, Ward PInkett, Lorenzo Tio, Hilton Jefferson, Happy Caldwell, Bix Beiderbecke, Bud Freeman, others . .
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Oscar Peterson and the tenor saxes . . a selection from Verve/Clef/Mercury albums of the mid to late 1950's featuring the Peterson trio and quartet (including Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Buddy Rich, Ray Brown, Ed Thigpen and Alvin Stoller) backing up Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Stitt, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Flip Philips and Stan Getz
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Brit Bop II - WETF Show featuring the music of Ronnie Scott and his groups, 1946-55. Featuring Jimmy Deuchar, Derek Humble, Benny Green, Spike Robinson, Vic Lewis, Ralph Sharon, Dave Goldberg, Tony Crosbie, Jack Parnell, Ken Wray and other British bebop luminaries . .
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Some of the best late period Louis on record . .his regular All Stars (Trummy Young, Ed Hall, Billy Kyle, Dale Jones, Barrett Deems) augmented by George Barnes, Yank Lawson and the arrangements of Bob Haggart recreating some of his early records . . Decca, 1956
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WETF Show . .More Further Definitions - Benny Carter-led and arranged sax ensembles with Coleman Hawkins, Phil Woods, Charlie Rouse, Bill Hood, Bud Shank, Teddy Edwards, Bill Perkins, Jimmy Heath, Herb Geller, Frank Wess and Joe Temperley . . great arrangements and playing by the leader
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Dorsey Stomp . . transcriptions in January, 1934 by the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra and then in September, 1934 by the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (after Tommy left). Almost the same band - George Thow, Don Mattison, Joe Yukl, Jack Stacey, Skeets Herfurt, Bobby Van Eps, Roc Hillman, Delmar Kaplan, Ray McKinley with Bob Eberle, Bob Crosby and Kay Weber
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Sonny Clay was an outstanding pianist who led bands in California all through the 1920's and 30's. After a period playing drums with Jelly Roll Morton and Kid Ory, he put together groups to play at some of the better nightclubs in Los Angeles and made a handful of recordings that run the gamut from New Orleans style jazz to hot dance music. There is a healthy dose of New Orleans here with cornetist Ernest Coycault, who was a contemporary of Bunk Johnson and Freddie Keppard and some other outstanding players like clarinetist Leonard Davidson, trombonist W.B. Woodman, Sr., and trumpeter Yank Porter
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Battle of the Saxes - Harry Carney with groups not led by Duke Ellington in the 1940's - Coleman Hawkins All-Star Sax Ensemble (with Don Byas, Tab Smith and Johnny Guarnieri), Johnny Bothwell (with Ray Nance), Esquire All Stars (with Coleman Hawkins and Charlie Shavers), Edmond Hall (with Benny Morton and Don Frye) and others
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Early Humph - the first (pre-Parlophone) recordings by Humphrey Lyttelton and His Band for Esquire, London and Tempo in 1948-49. Great early trad featuring Lyttelton, Keith Christie, Harry Brown, Wally Fawkes, George Webb, and Neville Skrimshire
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WETF Show Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra - big band studio recordings and a live date at the Golden Gate Ballroom in 1939, featuring Ben Webster, Karl George, Rudy Powell, Jake Wiley, J.C. Heard, Shorty Baker. One of the most musical big bands of the period!
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Sliphorn Outing - some of the sides recorded featuring the great Benny Morton on trombone. With his own groups in 1934 (with Red Allen, Ed Inge, Jerry Blake and Teddy McRae) and 1944 (Ben Webster and Barney Bigard) and with Edmond Hall (Harry Carney and Sid Catlett), Eddie Condon (Jess Stacy and Bobby Hackett), Earl Bostic (Don Byas) and Hot Lips Page (Ben Webster).
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Foot Scuffle . . most of the recordings of the legendary Joseph Robichaux and His New Orleans Rhythm Boys of 1933 . . a hot swing band from New Orleans that miraculously made a number of records in New York - featuring Robichaux on piano, Eugene Ware on trumpet, Gene Porter on clarinet and tenor and Rene Hall on banjo among others
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BritTrad 1 - Sandy Brown and His Jazz Band . . the idiosyncratic Scots clarinetist and bandleader with Al Fairweather, John R.T. Davies, Diz Disley and many others playing originals by the leader and Fairweather . .all recorded for Tempo in London, 1955-56
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WETF Show - James P Johnson and the blues singers . . Stride legend backing Ethel Waters, Rosa Henderson, Clara Smith and Bessie Smith in the 1920's and early 30's
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WETF Show - Barrelhouse Blues - band sides including Kansas City Frank Melrose in the late 1920's - featuring Johnny Dodds, Baby Dodds, Freddie Keppard (maybe), Cicero Thomas, Wingy Manone, Frank Teschemacher, Bud Freeman, George Wettling, Darnell Howard, Jimmy Bertrand . .South and Northside hot jazz
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Delayed Action - the first recordings of George Shearing - solo and groups in London with Leonard Feather, Harry Hayes, Ronnie Scott, Tommy Whittle, George Chisholm, Kenny Baker, Pete Chilvers, and others
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Benny Sent Me - the Benny Goodman Quartet (and Trio) featuring Dave Tough . . all studio and live recordings with Goodman, Tough, Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton from 1938
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WETF Show - Solo Hop - early Glenn Miller arrangements for the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, The Ray Noble American Orchestra and Miller's first recording session. Charlie Spivak, Bunny Berigan, Pee Wee Erwin, George Thow, Tommy Dorsey, Jack Jenney, Johnny Mince, Jimmy Dorsey, Skeets Herfurt, Eddie Miller, Bud Freeman, Claude Thornhill and others!
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Wild Women - Ida Cox . .the "Uncrowned Queen of the Blues" in recordings from her most famous period in the 1920's featuring Lovie Austin, Jesse Crump, Tommy Ladnier and Jimmie O'Bryant along with two later appearances in the 1940's with Hot Lips Page, JC Higginbotham, Edmund Hall, James P. Johnson, Charlie Christian, Artie Bernstein, Lionel Hampton, Jo Jones, Walter Page, Buddy Tate, Dickie Wells and Shad Collins, and then at the end of her life with Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Sammy Price, Milt Hinton and Jo Jones.
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Sold American - first Glenn Miller Orchestra recordings . . these are early, almost prototype records made by Miller in 1937 and 1938 when he was "getting it together" - more jazz than later featuring Sterling Bose, Pee Wee Erwin, Johnny Austin, Irving Fazola, Hal McIntyre, Jerry Jerome, Tex Beneke and others. Also, three early live recordings of his early band.
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Speculation - the Teddy Wilson Quintet and the All Star Sextet, all featuring Charlie Shavers, Red Norvo, Teddy Wilson, Remo Palmieri, Al Hall and Specs Powell, with a cameo by Maxine Sullivan - 1944-45
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Tuxedo Stomp - State Street Ramblers II . .too good to let go with one episode. Two versions of the SST - the first featuring Natty Dominique with alto player Joe Walker and Jimmy Blythe and WE Burton. The second is a reed duo with Alvin Fernandez and Baldy MacDonald with Blythe, Burton, Bill Johnson and Clifford "Snags" Jones . .great hot jazz from the Southside of Chicago, 1928!
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Straight Life - two Contemporary albums from the late 1950's by Art Pepper - Plus Eleven and Meets The Rhythm Section . .good alto, clarinet and tenor by Pepper with Jack Sheldon, Russ Freeman, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones
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WETF show . . Fats Waller - the instrumental sides recorded for Bluebird in the 1930's - Herman Autrey, Johnny Hamilton, Gene Sedric, Rudy Powell, Benny Carter, Alton Moore, Gene Porter, Al Casey, John Smith, Yank Porter, Slick Jones, Charles Turner . great piano and small group jazz
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Earl Hines and Muggsy Spanier - the great band led by two Chicago stalwarts in the late 1950's - featuring very tight arrangements of dixieland standards, hot dance numbers and swing tunes also featuring Jimmy Archey, Darnell Howard, Pops Foster and Earl Watkins. Live recordings!
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Lem Fowler - little known and largely forgotten pianist and composer. He recorded numerous original tunes and arrangements, often in the company of the equally forgotten reedman Percy Glascoe. Great hot washboard jazz of the 1920's in the company of Seymour Irick, Clarence Wheeler, and a very young Sidney DeParis.
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WETF Show - The Rampart Street Paraders . . great West Coast trad led and arranged by Matty Matlock, with Clyde Hurley, Abe Lincoln, Eddie Miller, Joe Rushton, Nick Fatool, George Van Eps and others . .1953-57!
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State Street Ramblers . .Barrelhouse Stomp. An ad hoc group of Chicago jazz and blues musicians recording in 1931 and 1932. Very free swinging and hot records featuring Roy Palmer, Darnell Howard, Bob Hudson, Big Bill Broonzy, Bat Robinson, Ed Hudson, Jimmy Blythe, Buddy Burton, Jimmy Bertrand
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Edgar Hayes and His Orchestra . .Manhattan Jam . .1938-39 big band recordings by a little known group featuring great tunes and arrangements by the leader as well as Joe Garland (who also plays tenor and bass sax) and players such as Clyde Bernhardt, Robert Horton, Crawford Wethington, Henry Goodwin, Leonard Davis, Rudy Powell and a very young Kenny Clarke on drums and vibes
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Bix and His Gang . . all the recordings by Bix Beiderbecke with his gang and with Bix and His Rhythm Jugglers . . Don Murray, Bill Rank, Tommy Dorsey, Izzy Friedman, Lennie Hayton and others..the roots of the modern trad jazz repertoire
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WETF Show Lady Who Swings The Band . . Mary Lou Williams band sides in the 1940's featuring Ed Hall, Frankie Newton, Dick Wilson, Ben Thigpen, as well as compositions and arrangements by Mary Lou herself
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Teddy Wilson and Edmund Hall . . superb chamber jazz recordings from the early to mid 1940's featuring both players in sextet and quartet settings for Commodore and various transcriptions. . with Joe Thomas, Emmett Berry, Sid Catlett
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A Prince of a Fellow - recordings from 1926-45 featuring the underrated Prince Robinson on tenor sax and clarinet with Duke Ellington's early band, Clarence Williams, Benny Moten, Billie Holiday, McKinney's Cotton Pickers and others . .
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The Other Smith (one of them, anyway) - Clara Smith in the 1920's. Great Classic Blues with Lem Fowler, Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson and many others . . .not only blues, but hot dance, tent show standards, and pop of the 20's as well.
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In The Middle - Transition recordings with Bebop and Swing musicians (1938-1945) . .featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke, Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell with Coleman Hawkins, Georgie Auld, Joe Marsala, Edgar Hayes, Rudy Powell, Henry Goodwin, Chuck Wayne, Cliff Jackson, Chu Berry, Benny Carter and Lionel Hampton
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WETF Show - Clarence Williams Jugs and Washboards - 1930's. Small Groups featuring Ed Allen, Eva Taylor, Cecil Scott, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Cyrus St. Clair and others. Great small group swing in the Depression, leading to the Swing Era.
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Mingus Fingers . . early (1945-49) recordings by various Charles Mingus groups on the West Coast - a mix of swing, bop and almost Third Stream experiments, most composed and arranged by Mingus. Featuring Buddy Collette, Karl George, Eric Dolphy, Willie Smith, Maxwell Davis, William "Brother" Woodman, Britt Woodman, Henry Coker, Wilbert Baranco, Lady Will Carr, Claude Trenier
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Jack Teagarden and Pete Fountain . . they never recorded together, but they did each record albums with similar big band backing in 1960 or so . . featuring T's trombone and singing with Charlie Teagarden and Eddie Miller and Pete playing the blues with Miller and lots of West Coast studio guys . .
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WETF Show . . Milt Jackson and Thelonious Monk for Blue Note . .1947, 52. . also featuring Sahib Shihab, Lou Donaldson, Kenny Clarke and others. Great small group bop/hard bop music through the prism of both Jackson's and Monk's different, but complimentary, visions.
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Clarence Williams . . sides done mostly with larger bands, 1933-37. Ed Allen, Charlie Gaines, Eva Taylor, Cecil Scott, Prince Robinson, Buster Bailey, Russell Procope, Cyrus St. Clair and Floyd Casey doing some interesting proto-swing sides
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James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band . .recordings made in the 1990's running the gamut from ragtime and Jelly Roll through late period swing. Featuring Jon Erik Kellso, Bob Smith, Kim Cusack, Russ Whitman, Rod MacDonald, Dave Sager, Mike Karoub, Wayne Jones, Paul Klinger, Pierre Ferran, Mike Walbridge and the Chenille Sisters
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Chu Berry - another show finishing up his recordings under his own name - mostly with Roy Eldridge . .also Irving Randolph, Lionel Hampton, Buster Bailey, Benny Payne, Jerry Jerome, Russell Procope, Teddy Wilson and Israel Crosby . .great jazz of the 1930's!
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Paul Barbarin/Eddie Condon on Atlantic . .two very different traditional jazz groups . .one from New Orleans featuring Barbarin, John Brunious, Willie Humphrey, Lester Santiago, Danny Barker, Bob Thomas and Milt Hinton and the other celebrating Chicago with Condon, Max Kaminsky, Cutty Cutshall, Pee Wee Russell, Bud Freeman, Dick Cary, George Wettling and Leonard Gaskin
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Spud Murphy . . not a household name, Spud Murphy was one of the most prolific arrangers for big bands in the 1930's and 40's. Here we have some of the almost unknown records under his own name as well as his arrangements performed by Jimmie Joy, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Seger Ellis and Joe Haymes . . featuring Joe Venuti, Sterling Bose, Irving Fazola, Nate Kazebier, Joe Harris and many others.
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Chu Berry and Hot Lips Page - sides for Commodore and Varsity (featuring George Matthews, Buster Bailey, Clyde Hart and others) as well as a Teddy Wilson session featuring Pee Wee Russell! A couple of Chu features with Lionel Hampton rounds out the program.
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Bing, Oh Where Can You Be . . early recordings of Bing Crosby with the Rhythm Boys, Paul Whiteman, Gus Arnheim, the Dorsey Brothers . . also his first solo records with Red Nichols, Matty Malneck, Eddie Lang, Snoozer Quinn, Frank Trumbauer, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, etc.
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WETF Jazz Focus show... Red's Jump . . .Swing/Bop/R&B sides by Red Allen with his terrific little band in 1944-47, featuring J.C. Higginbotham and Don Stovall
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Pete's Housewarming Blues . . the great boogie woogie pianist Pete Johnson recording for Savoy in 1944 and Decca in 1939 . . featuring Hot Lips Page, J.C. Higginbotham, Clyde Bernhardt, Albert Nicholas, Eddie Barefield, Don Stovall, Don Byas, Ben Webster, Budd Johnson, J.C. Heard, Jimmy Shirley, Al Hall, Abe Bolar, A.G. Godley and others
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Daughters of the Stride II . . (see my podcast for the first installment) - sides made by Lil Hardin Armstrong (with Jonah Jones, Reunald Jones, J.C. Higginbotham, Buster Bailey and Don Stovall) and Ramona Davies (with Bunny Berigan, Charlie Teagarden, Jack Teagarden, Benny Bonacio and Dick McDonough)
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Eccentric . . the hot little band led by Max Kaminsky that played at the Pied Piper in Greenwich Village in the spring and fall of 1944. Featuring Rod Cless, Frank Orchard, James P. Johnson, Willie The Lion Smith and a cameo by George Zack.
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Thelonious . . Monk's first band recordings on Blue Note 1947-52 . . Kenny Dorham, Idrees Suliemann, Sahib Shihab, Lou Donaldson, Lucky Thompson, Art Blakey and Max Roach
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Feeling a Draft - Roy Eldridge and Oscar Peterson . . Eldridge featured in 1953 and 54 for Norman Granz backed by the Peterson quartet (Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and either Alvin Stoller or Buddy Rich) . .great playing by the trumpeter- some more reflective and introspective than expected.
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WETF show ..The Trumpeter's Prayer . . King Oliver and His Orchestra on Victor, 1929-30 featuring Louis Metcalf, Punch Miller, Red Allen, Ward Pinkett, Jimmy Archey, Charlie Holmes, Hilton Jefferson, Glyn Pacque, Charles Frazier, James P. Johnson, Don Frye, Manzie Johnson and Roy Smeck
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Christopher Columbus - The Fletcher Henderson band at the Grand Terrace in Chicago, 1936-38. Studio recordings for Victor and Vocalion as well as a live broadcast . . Roy Eldridge, Emmett Berry, Fernando Arbello, Al Wynn, Buster Bailey, Hilton Jefferson, Eddie Barefield, Chu Berry, Franz Jackson, Horace Henderson, John Kirby, Sid Catlett and Pete Suggs
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WETF Show - Pardon Me, Pretty Baby . . .recordings made by Coleman Hawkins in Europe (Paris and Holland) in 1937-8 . . featuring Freddy Johnson, Benny Carter, Andre Ekyan, Alix Combelle, George Chisholm, Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli and Tommy Benford
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WETF Show- Barrelhouse Piano - Three great Chicago blues and barrelhouse pianists - George Zack (with Danny Alvin), Tut Soper (with Baby Dodds) and Art Hodes (solo) from 1942-44.
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Pianist Art Hodes and clarinetist Rod Cless made a unique and satisfying partnership until Cless died in 1944. Both steeped in the Chicago jazz tradition, their recordings on Signature (the Art Hodes Trio and the Chicago Boys with Marty Marsala and Earl Murphy), Decca (with Sidney DeParis, Brad Gowans, Eddie Condon, Murphy and Zutty Singleton) and live (with George Brunies, Duke Duval, Jacques Butler and Joe Grauso) compliment their better known efforts on Blue Note, which will be on a later podcast.
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Clifford Brown on the West Coast . .great records for Pacific with the "cool" school. .Zoot Sims, Herb Geller, Bob Gordon, Shelly Manne, Joe Maini, Kenny Drew, Walter Benton, Stu Williamson and others backing up the great bop and Hard Bop Trumpeter
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We Don't Know From Nothin' - Don Redman and His Orchestra, 1936-37 . . featuring his big band and a small group backing singer Bob Howard . .with Shirley Clay, Harold "Shorty" Baker, Benny Morton, Ed Inge, Robert Carroll, Don Kirkpatrick, Sid Catlett, Manzie Johnson and Harlan Lattimore . Great swing as well as some novelties and superior jazz from all players.
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Bob Thiele and Bobby Hackett ..two records for Flying Dutchman in the 1970's . . "The 20's Score Again" - with Hackett, Pee Wee Erwin, Max Kaminsky, Urbie Green, Buddy Morrow, Johnny Mince, Clarence Hutchenrider, Hank Jones, Art Ryerson, Richard Davis, Ted Sommer . . ."What A Wonderful World" - Hackett, Vic Dickenson, Green, Mince, Hutchenrider and Teresa Brewer . .great, late period Condon-style dixieland
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Keep Cool - late period Django Reinhardt - electric guitar and bebop, although some acoustic as well (including the definitive solo version of Nuages from 1950) . . Pierre Michelot, Hubert Rostaing, Stephane Grappelli, Hubert Fol, Raymond Fol and many others of the French modern Jazz school
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Daughters of the Stride 1 - two outstanding women pianists/singers/entertainers in the 1930's. . .Cleo Brown (recording with Perry Botkin, Gene Krupa, Bobby Sherwood and Vic Berton as well as solo) and Una Mae Carlisle (with Bertie King, Dave Wilkins, Benny Carter, Johnny "Bugs" Hamilton, Zutty Singleton, and Al Casey). Great playing and singing as well.
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WETF Show - Profit by His Example . .Tatum's favorite pianist Clarence Profit didn't make many records, but we have a good selection of what he did here from 1930-40 . . the Washboard Rhythm Kings with Teddy Bunn, Taft Jordan, Ben Smith and Carl Wade; the Clarence Profit Trio with either Jimmy Shirley or Billy Moore along with Ben Burns and some exceptional solo piano recordings
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WETF Show Carney-val . .Small group sessions in 1944 and 45 for Keynote and HRS featuring Harry Carney's fantastic baritone sax and bass clarinet . . Sandy Williams' Big Eight, Rex Stewart's Big Eight, Harry Carney's Big Eight and Jimmy Jones' Big Eight . . in addition to the leaders, hear Joe Thomas, Emmett Berry, Vernon Brown, Lawrence Brown, Otto Hardwick, Johnny Hodges, Tab Smith, Ted Nash, Johnny Guarnieri, Shelley Manne. Billy Taylor, Cozy Cole and Brick Fleagle
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Shout, Sister . . Tiny Bradshaw and Willie Bryant - two big bands in the 1930's led by vocalists . . Bradshaw's band from 1934 had Russell Procope, Shad Collins, Bobby Holmes, Happy Caldwell, Clarence Johnson and Cozy Cole while Bryant's in 35/36 had Benny Carter, Ben Webster, Glyn Paque, Edgar Battle, and Teddy Wilson
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Kansas City 6 plus one or two . . live and rehearsal recordings made by Buck Clayton, Lester Young, Count Basie, Freddie Green, Walter Page and Jo Jones with guests Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian and Leonard Ware. 1938-40.
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Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight . . small group from the Chick Webb band led on recordings for Decca 1935-9 by Ella. Featuring Taft Jordan, Sandy Williams, Pete Clark, Hilton Jefferson, Louis Jordan, Teddy McRae, Tommy Fulford and Chick along with some first rate songs
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Milton's Boogie . .Roy Milton and His Solid Senders. This combination Swing/Boogie/R&B group from the late 1940's features great piano by Camille Howard along with vocals by Howard and Milton. Also some great solos by Benny Waters, Jackie Kelso, Hosea Sapp, Earl Sims, Buddy Floyd, William Gaither and Arthur Walker . .dance your heart out!
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Honoris Causa - For the sake of Marty Grosz . . 1957-61 recordings done in Chicago (some from the "Hooray for Bix" album) . .featuring Frank Chace, Bob Skiver, Bob Mitchell, John Dengler, Tut Soper, Carl Halen, Art Gronwall, Bob Saltmarsh and, on the first four tunes, a brief return of Jabbo Smith, who hadn't recorded in twenty five years!
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Johnny Hodges - the sideman in the 1940's. Recordings featuring Hodges done for Keynote, Signature and HRS . .The Billy Taylor Big Eight, Sandy Williams Big Eight, Eddie Heywood Trio (with Shelley Manne) . . also featuring Harry Carney, Ted Nash, Rex Stewart, Joe Thomas, Emmett Berry, Lawrence Brown, Vernon Brown, Johnny Guarnieri, Cozy Cole . .great late period Swing
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In Harlem's Araby - 1920's recordings by lesser known black bands active in the smaller clubs in New York (the Nest, Small's, the first Savoy, etc.) Bands led by Elmer Snowden, Chick Webb, Willie The Lion Smith, and James P. Johnson including great performances by Louis Metcalf, Edwin Swayzee, Robert Horton, TeRoy Williams, Jimmy Harrison, Sidney Bechet, Buster Bailey, Luis Russell, Happy Caldwell, Bob Fuller, Hilton Jefferson, Charlie Holmes, Clarence Grimes, Cliff Jackson, Joe Turner, Perry Bradford and Walter Johnson among others
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The Mills Brothers in the 1930's - Four Boys and A Guitar in 1932-37 by themselves and with Duke Ellington, Don Redman, Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
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Have It Ready - Fletcher Henderson's Dixie Stompers recordings. Done from 1925-1928, these were a parallel recording band to the full Henderson group . .featuring a smaller band using mostly stock arrangements but with great jazz . . Joe Smith, Tommy Ladnier, Rex Stewart,Bobby Stark, Charlie Green, Jimmy Harrison, Buster Bailey, Don Redman, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Dixon, Ralph Escudero, June Cole and Kaiser Marshall
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Wilbur De Paris' New New Orleans Jazz Band - Original compositions in Trad Jazz style from the 1950's. This innovative yet traditional band combined older players (Sidney DeParis, Doc Cheatham, Omer Simeon, Garvin Bushell, Sonny White, Don Kirkpatrick, Freddie Moore, Wilbert Kirk) with the leader's interesting compositions and arrangements .
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WPA Rag . .Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red in the 1930's with the Chicago Five and others . . This style is often called the "Bluebird Blues" because of the sound being associated with hundreds of records on Bluebird in the 1930's and early 40's. Broonzy and Tampa Red were seasoned recording stars from the 1920's on and here adapt nicely to swing, with great contributions from Punch Miller, Bill Owsley and Buster Bennett.
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Joe Thomas! Another podcast by the criminally underrated trumpet player Joe Thomas. Known for playing with Fletcher Henderson, Benny Carter, Barney Bigard and a host of others . .these mid 1940's sides feature him at his peak - his own band recording for HRS (featuring his wife Babe Matthews on vocals with Lem Davis, Ted Nash and Jimmy Jones), with the Don Byas All Star Quintet with Johnny Guarnieri and the Joe Marsala Sextet in a wild amalgam of dixie, swing and bop featuring Adele Girard on harp, Chuck Wayne on guitar and Charlie Queener on piano (guest appearance by Leonard Feather on piano and Linda Keene on vocals)
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Paul Ricci - unheard clarinet of the Swing Era! Centered around six virtually unknown trio (clarinet and piano with Carl Kress on guitar) recordings from 1938, this salute to Ricci includes sides he did with Joe Haymes (featuring Joe Venuti), Dean Kincaide (with Yank Lawson, Cutty Cutshall and Peanuts Hucko), Brad Gowans (Billy Butterfield and Joe Dixon), Bob Howard (Bunny Berigan and Frank Signorelli), Miff Mole (Harry James) and two rare and very original recordings by the Carl Kress Quintet
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Juba Dance - Omer Simeon in the 1940's and 50's. Great mainstream and dixieland recordings by the legendary Simeon who recreates and even excels his 1926 recording of "Shreveport Stomp" with Jelly Roll Morton in 1956 with the Wilbur De Paris New New Orleans Jazz Band (several other tunes with them featuring Sidney DeParis, Sonny White, Wilbert Kirk and Rudy Rutherford). Also in trios with James P. Johnson and Pops Foster and Sammy Price and Zutty Singleton as well as a Blue Note date with Art Hodes.
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Sidney Bechet live - the John Reid recordings...private recordings made by Bechet's Boswell from 1939-44. Some were rehearsals for his upcoming Victor recording sessions (Reid was the producer) and some were casual dance or party dates. Featuring Henry Goodwin, Sandy Williams, Don Donaldson, Sonny White, Don Frye, Max Miller, Wilson Myers, Manzie Johnson, Sid Catlett, Kenny Clarke and Freddie Moore
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WETF Show - For Dancers Only - The Sy Oliver arrangements for Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra for Decca (1934-38) featuring Willie Smith, Eddie Tompkins, Trummy Young, Dan Grissom, Eddie Durham, Al Norris, Jimmy Crawford, Paul Webster, Eddie Wilcox and Joe Thomas! Listen to my earlier podcast for the first volume of the Lunceford recordings, featuring arrangements by Eddie Wilcox, Willie Smith and Eddie Durham
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WETF Show Here's Your Change - Toots Mondello! Hardly anyone knows his name anymore, but Toots was one of the great lead alto players of the Swing Era . . he was also an excellent soloist on alto and clarinet - hear his work with his own group (including two tunes of the Rudy Wiedoeft variety with a trio), Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton (with Ziggy Elman, Ben Webster, Jerry Jerome, and Clyde Hart), Dick McDonough (with Bunny Berigan and Adrian Rollini), Bob Haggart (Chris Griffin, Peanuts Hucko and Paul Ricci), and Deane Kinkaide (Peanuts Hucko, Yank Lawson and Cutty Cutshall)
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Business in Q - Archie Bleyer 2 .. more arrangements by the prolific Mr. Bleyer, played by Frank Trumbauer, Cab Calloway, Ben Pollack, Gene Kardos, Joe Haymes, Red Nichols, Noble Sissle, Ambrose and His Orchestra, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Clarence Williams, Fletcher Henderson, Bubber Miley and His Mileage Makers, Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy, Jack Teagarden, Dave Nelson and the King's Men, George Olsen
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Ragtime to Stride: James P. Johnson Piano Rolls . . recorded between 1917 and 1924, these rolls were made for a variety of companies including QRS and Universal - mostly before Johnson was recording commercially. Here are versions of "Carolina Shout" and many of his showpieces, including a long medley of tunes from Runnin' Wild in 1922
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Django and American Friends . .recordings made in Paris between 1934 and 1940 featuring the great Gypsy guitarist with American and European jazz players . . Bill Coleman, Frank "Big Boy" Goudie, Christian Wagner, Andre Ekyan, Alix Combelle, June Cole, Garnett Clark, Joe Turner, George Johnson, Larry Adler, and Stephane Grappelli
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WETF Show - Business in F - the arrangements of Archie Bleyer. Dance band records from 1928-32 featuring stock arrangements by the prolific, accomplished and virtually unknown Bleyer . . versions by King Oliver, Bubber Miley, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, Ben Pollack, Joe Haymes, Ben Bernie, Gene Kardos, Ted Lewis, Fess Williams, Thelma Terry and Noble Sissle
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Peter Ecklund - Horn of Plenty. Originally recorded for Stomp Off, this album features cornetist Ecklund's arrangements and band leading skills as well has his immaculate playing. Also featured are Marty Grosz, Ken Peplowski, Joe Muranyi, Vince Giordano and Dan Barrett - great chamber jazz from the 1980's recreating and reanimating tunes from the 1920's and 30's.
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Stratosphere - the Jimmie Lunceford Decca recordings, part 1. Featuring the arrangements of Eddie Wilcox, Willie Smith and Eddie Durham (part 2 will feature Sy Oliver's charts) . . great solos by Eddie Tompkins, Paul Webster, Sy Oliver, Elmer Crumbley, Willie Smith, Joe Thomas, Earl Carruthers, Eddie Wilcox, Al Norris, Mose Allen and Jimmy Crawford . . the arrangements and incredible saxophone section are really the stars on these 1934-38 sides.
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Never Too Much - Coleman Hawkins Quintet from January to March, 1945. Howard McGhee, Sir Charles Thompson, Oscar Pettiford or Eddie Robinson, Denzil Best with guests Allan Reuss and Vic Dickenson in Swing-to-Bop transition records made for Asch and Capitol
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Zaggin' With Zig - The Ziggy Elman Orchestra Bluebird sides from 1938-39 featuring mostly members of the Benny Goodman Orchestra (Hymie Schertzer, Dave Matthews, Toots Mondello, Noni Bernardi, Jerry Jerome, Babe Russin, Art Rollini, Jess Stacy, Milt Raskin, Johnny Guarnieri, Ben Heller, Al Kendis, Nick Fatool, Artie Bernstein) doing some excellent Jazz as well as pop standards. Two bonus cuts by Toots Mondello and His Orchestra leading virtually the same band (with Claude Thornhill) for Varsity. Sorry in advance for some technical glitches on this one - the narration part was slightly compromised by a microphone issue, but the music is fine!
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WETF Show In A Jam - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra recording for Capitol Transcriptions in 1946 and 1947 . . between the end of his recordings for Victor and the beginning of his Musicraft contract with repertoire from both . . featuring Ray Nance, Cat Anderson, Harold "Shorty" Baker, Taft Jordan, Joe Nanton (his final recordings), Lawrence Brown, Jimmy Hamilton, Russell Procope, Johnny Hodges, Al Sears, Harry Carney along with Duke, Oscar Pettiford and Sonny Greer
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Guitar in High - Teddy Bunn . . great guitarist whose career stretched from the 1920's to the 1960's. Here we will listen to sides from 1938-40 including those he made with the Mezzrow-Ladnier Quintet (Mezz Mezzrow, Tommy Ladnier, Pops Foster and Manzie Johnson), Rosetta Crawford (Mezzrow, Ladnier and James P. Johnson), the Frankie Newton Quintet/Port of Harlem Jazz Men (Frankie Newton, J.C. Higginbotham, Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Pops Foster, Sid Catlett), Sidney Bechet Quartet (Bechet, Foster, Catlett) and by himself in a virtually unique solo guitar session from 1940
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Old Bottles, Older Wine - the Gil Evans Orchestra on Pacific Records, 1958, 1959 . . Arrangements by the innovative Gil Evans of Jazz standards from earlier eras featuring Cannonball Adderley, Budd Johnson, Curtis Fuller, Chuck Wayne, Johnny Coles, Bill Barber, Elvin Jones, Steve Lacy, Ray Crawford, Art Blakey and of course Evans himself.
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Apropos more now than ever, this is a tribute to a very HOT band from Philadelphia in the summer and fall of 1932. The Washboard Stompers featured Taft Jordan and Valaida Snow on trumpets, Ben Smith and Carl Wade on saxes, Eddie Miles on piano, Ghost Howell on bass and Steve Washington on banjo and vocals with assists from Bella Benson and Lavada Carter
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The Gene Kardos Orchestra was a busy and frequently recorded band in the early 1930's - based at the Gloria Palast in the Bronx, they were one of the few white groups playing really hot dance music during the Depression years. While they recorded under Kardos' name (and a variety of pseudonyms) for Victor, Melotone and the ARC labels, it was featured under the name of their pianist, Joel Shaw for recordings made for the Crown label. These records were, if anything, hotter than the Kardos sides - featuring no well known Jazz players, this band was known to swing harder than its competition - Ben Pollack, Casa Loma and the Dorsey Brothers.
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WETF Show - Benny Goodman in 1945/6 . . from December '45 to Jan '46 - one radio show and two transcription sessions featuring the big band (with Stan Getz, Bernie Privin and Mel Powell) and the Trio, Quintet and Sextet (with Powell, Red Norvo, Mike Bryan and others). Some of Goodman's greatest and least inhibited playing under his own name
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Swingin' Minstrel - Clancy Hayes! The banjo player and singer with Bob Scobey's Frisco Jazz Band (Bill Napier, George Probert, Jack Buck, Pud Brown), Art Hodes, Yank Lawson's Yankee Clippers (Cutty Cuttshall, Pee Wee Russell, Dave McKenna), Salty Dogs (Lew Green, Kim Cusack, John Cooper, Wayne Jones, Mike Walbridge) and his own quartet with Jess Stacy or Ralph Sutton . .great tunes and singing with a mix of West Coast, Chicago and New York Dixieland musicians.
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Clarinet Marmalade - Edmond Hall on Commodore - featured as a sideman with Wild Bill Davison's Commodores (including George Brunies, Vernon Brown, Gene Schroeder and Eddie Condon), The DeParis Brothers (Sidney and Wilbur Deparis, Clyde Hart), and George Wettling's Rhythm Kings (Billy Butterfield, Wilbur DeParis, Dave Bowman) . . great mainstream/trad!
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Louis Armstrong 1947 . . transition! Two live concerts (February and April) leading up to his Town Hall Concert in May and the formation of the All-Stars. The February date has him fronting the Edmund Hall Sextet at Carnegie Hall with Irving "Mouse" Randolph, Henderson Chambers, Ellis Larkins, Johnny Williams and Jimmy Crawford along with Hall . . the April date is the "This Is Jazz" show produced, written and narrated by Rudi Blesh for WOR . . the This Is Jazz All-Stars with Louis are Wild Bill Davison, George Brunies Albert Nicholas, Art Hodes, Danny Barker, Pops Foster and Baby Dodds.
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Clarinet Spice . . .recordings featuring two (or more) clarinets! The Southern Jazz Five (led by Dave Dallwitz), Bechet-Nicholas Blues Five (Albert Nicholas and Sidney Bechet), Clarence Williams Washboard Band (with Bennie Moten and Ben Whitted), Benny Goodman and Stan Hasselgard, Ray Burke and Harry Shields, Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra, Johnny Dodds and Junie Cobb, Edmond Hall with Herb Hall and Omer Simeon and others . .
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Chasing The Blues Away - recordings for World and Associated Transcriptions in 1935 of the Claude Hopkins Orchestra (with Ovie Alston, Ed Hall, Hilton Jefferson, Bobby Sands and Sylvester Lewis) and 1936 of the Chick Webb Orchestra (with Bobby Stark, Sandy Williams, Pete Clarke, Edgar Sampson, Teddy McRae, Joe Steele and Ella Fitzgerald)
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The Reunion - December, 1957 recording sessions featuring Gerry Mulligan. One with the reunion of Mulligan and Chet Baker in a quartet setting (with Henry Grimes and Dave Bailey) and two tunes from the unreleased album "Gerry Mulligan with the Vinnie Burke String Quartet" featuring Calo Scott and Dick Wetmore
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WETF Show - A Side of Cole . . .not Hawkins this time, but Nat "King" Cole recording with other swing groups from 1940-1947. The Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Lester Young Trio, Dexter Gordon Quintet and a special addition, Cole's first records - 1936 with his brother Eddie's band. Featuring Kenneth Roane, Wesley Prince, Oscar Moore, Buddy Rich, Red Callendar, Harry Edison
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Mardi Gras . .Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band 1944, 45. These recordings were in some ways the beginning of the New Orleans Jazz Revival - done for Crescent in Los Angeles they feature mostly New Orleans-born African-American musicians who were active professionally from the first and second decades of the 20th Century. Mutt Carey, Ory, Omer Simeon, Darnell Howard, Buster Wilson, Bud Scott, Ed Garland, Minor Garland, Alton Redd, and, on two live shots from the Orson Wells radio show, Zutty Singleton and Jimmy Noone.
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Teddy's Boogie - Teddy Powell and His Orchestra . . little known big band from 1939 at the beginning of its career featuring live recordings, transcriptions and its first Decca records with Jerry Neary on trumpet, Pete Skinner on trombone, Gus Bivona on clarinet, Don Lodice on tenor sax and Milt Raskin on piano - some great swing playing!
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The underrated cornet/trumpet player Sterling Bose was active as a Bix and King Oliver influenced stylist in the 1920's but played with a raft of big bands in the 1930's . . these 1935 recordings focus on three groups (and one bonus) . . .The Vic Berton Orchestra has Bose with the leader on drums, Spencer Clark on bass sax, Matty Matlock, Pee Wee Russell and Chick Bullock while the Little Ramblers are led by Adrian Rollini (on piano!), Sid Stoneburn, Freddy Fallensby and other members of the Joe Haymes Orchestra. The Haymes musicians (Stoneburn, Bose, and tenor saxophonist Johnny Van Eps) are also with Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven, featuring the leader and Edythe Wright. The bonus is the actual Joe Haymes Orchestra on one tune - others will be on a future podcast!
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New Moten Stomp - Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra from October, 1930 . . one year into the Depression and the Moten band was still popular enough for a marathon recording session for Victor in KC . .featuring Count Basie, Hot Lips Page, Jimmy Rushing, Ed Lewis, Thamon Hayes, Harlan Leonard, Woodie Walder and Willie McWashington
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Who Can Your Regular Be - The Arcadian Serenaders . . Great hot dance band from St. Louis in 1924/5 featuring either Wingy Manone or Sterling Bose with Cliff Holman, Avery Loposer, Johnny Riddick and Felix Guarino . .many of them were either from New Orleans or worked there, so the sound is very much the New Orleans dance band sound of the 1920's
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WETF Show The Willies - 1940's and 50's small group sessions by the remarkable alto saxist Willie Smith - known for his years playing lead for Lunceford and Harry James, Smith was a stylist on alto and a good arranger as well. He is presented here with his own groups as well as ones led by Nat King Cole, Billie Holliday, Al Casey, Corky Corcoran, Gene Krupa and Shorty Sherock and featuring those notables as well as Charlie Shavers, Billy May, Les Paul, Murray McEachern, Harry Edison, Teddy Wilson, Allan Reuss and Israel Crosby
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Back Beat Boogie - Harry James and His "New" Jazz Band in 1956. When James scaled back his big band, he used his key sidemen (Nick Buono, Juan Tizol, Willie Smith, Herbie Steward, Larry Kinnamon, Foy Blanton, and Buddy Rich) to launch this interesting group. Never commercially recorded, these sides come from transcriptions for the USMC and feature vocals by Buddy Rich and Peggy King. Also, two bonus cuts of small groups from the James band of the mid-late 1940's featuring Willie Smith.
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Just You, Just Eddie Heywood . . the fine pianist leading his 1940's sextet on recordings made for Commodore, VDisc and Decca and featuring Doc Cheatham, Dick Vance, Henry Parr Jones, Vic Dickenson, Henry Coker, Lem Davis, Marshall Royal, Al Lucas, Jack Parker and others, with a guest appearance by Bing Crosby
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Tap Room Swing - Albert Nicholas in the 1930's. Small group sessions featuring the great New Orleans clarinetist with Clarence Williams (with Eva Taylor and Willie The Lion Smith), Alex Hill (with Gene Sedric, Claude Jones, Joe Thomas and Benny Carter), Freddie Jenkins and HIs Harlem Seven/Bernard Addison and His Rhythm (with Joe Turner, Kirby Walker and Adrian Rollini), The Little Ramblers (with Ward Pinkett, Bill Dillard, Adrian Rollini, Jack Russin and Danny Barker) and the Louis Armstrong Orchestra (live, with Red Allen, J.C. Higginbotham, Pops Foster and Charlie Holmes)
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Unaccustomed As They Were - Famous musicians playing alternate instruments . . recordings of Benny Goodman on bass clarinet, alto and baritone saxes, Jimmy Dorsey on baritone sax and cornet (with Joe Venuti), Tommy Dorsey on trumpet, Ed Hall on baritone sax (with Claude Hopkins), Jack Teagarden on cornet (with Irving Mills), Barney Bigard on tenor sax (with Ellington), Milt Hinton on tuba (with Tiny Parham), Buster Bailey on alto (with Clarence Williams), Pee Wee Russell on tenor sax (with Red Nichols), Coleman Hawkins on clarinet (with Fletcher Henderson) and Bud Freeman on clarinet (with Bunny Berigan).
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52nd Street All Stars - the great clarinetist Tony Scott put together an album for Coral in 1958 celebrating the 52nd Street scene from the 1930's and 40's - featuring Bebop players like Red Rodney, George Wallington and Roy Haynes, transitional players like Al Cohn, Mundell Lowe and Tommy Flannagan and Swing stars like Coleman Hawkins, Pee Wee Russell, J.C. Higginbotham, Emmett Berry and Al Casey
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An influential group in Chicago from 1957-1965, the Original Jass All Stars was founded by Swing era clarinet- and saxophonist Franz Jackson who united several African-American jazz players of the 1920's to play traditional, New Orleans-styled music. Bob Shoffner, John Thomas, Al Wynn, Rozelle Claxton, Ralph Tervalon, Lawrence Dixon, Bill Oldham and Richard Curry are heard playing selections from their five LPs from the period.
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A great little band from the Famous Door in 1936-7 . . trumpet and vocalist Louis Prima was fresh from New Orleans and not yet his later Las Vegas persona . . here he plays superb trumpet and sings in the style of Louis Armstrong, abetted by clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, who called this the happiest musical time of his life . . .lots of fun but great jazz as well (and an audio clip from the film they appeared in as well)
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.Coleman Hawkins with the Mound City Blue Blowers, Chocolate Dandies and McKinney's Cotton Pickers 1929-1931, featuring Benny Carter, Pee Wee Russell, Red McKenzie, Glenn Miller, Jimmy Dorsey, Fats Waller, Jimmy Harrison, Don Redman, Claude Jones, Sidney DeParis, Bobby Stark, Rex Stewart, Muggsy Spanier and Jack Russin
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Stan Getz on 1945, 46 and 49 sessions for Savoy with Kai Winding's Kats, the Stan Getz Quartet and Orchestra featuring Shorty Rogers, Hank Jones, Max Roach, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Raney and Earl Swope . . two Getz records with Benny Goodman (for Columbia, featuring Mel Powell and Billy Butterfield) are added for good measure
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Midge Williams is not a well known name today and she did not record a great deal, but the sides with her "Jazz Jesters" feature three different bands active in the 1930's - the Raymond Scott Quintet (with Carl Wade, Pete Pumiglio and Dave Harris), Billy Hicks' Sizzlin' Six (with Fernando Arbello and Edmond Hall) and the John Kirby Sextet (with Frankie Newton, Charlie Shavers, Buster Bailey, Pete Brown, Russell Procope and Billy Kyle). Some one off records with Teddy Wilson (with Vido Musso and Jonah Jones), Lil Armstrong (Jonah Jones and Don Stovall) and Miff Mole complete the collection.
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Clarinet-centric recordings this time . . .George Lewis, Louis Cottrell, Steve Angrum, Harry Shields and Ray Burke with a variety of rhythm sections including Alton Purnell, Slow Drag Pavageau, Emmanuel Sayles, Butch Thompson, Cie Frazier, George Guesnon, Art Hodes, Pops Foster, Jeanette Kimball, Danny and Blue Lu Barker, Johnny St. Cyr, Chink Martin and Sherwood Mangiapanne.
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Trumpet-centric recordings with no other horns! Featuring features by Louis Armstrong, Red Allen, Isaiah Morgan, Punch Miller, Kid Howard and Johnny Wiggs with rhythm sections . . .recorded between 1937 and 1960.
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The Dawn of Swing . . not on the Dawn label, but four sessions made between 1933 and 1935 featuring a cavalcade of swing musicians . . racially integrated bands led by Benny Carter (featuring Max Kaminsky, Floyd O'Brien, Chu Berry, Teddy Wilson and Sid Catlett), Taft Jordan (with Johnny Mince, Ward Silloway, Elmer Williams and Wilson), Bud Freeman (Bunny Berigan, Claude Thornhill and Cozy Cole) and Bunny Berigan (with Edgar Sampson, Eddie Miller and Cliff Jackson)
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Punch Miller in the 1920's . . legendary New Orleans trumpeter and some of his first recordings with Al WY"nn, Frankie Franko, Jimmy Bertrand, Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon and Tiny Parham with contributions from Sid Catlett, Quinn Wilson, Darnell Howard, Lester Boone and quite a few little known but excellent Chicago musicians.
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Charlie Parker the sideman in the 1940's and 50's . . recordings with Red Norvo's Selected Sextet, The Sir Charles Thompson All Stars, Clyde Hart All Stars, Miles Davis Quintet and Sextet featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Flip Phillips, Teddy Wilson, Buck Clayton, Dexter Gordon, Trummy Young, Sonny Rollins and others.
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Eubie! Recordings from 1969 and 1971 of Eubie Blake playing some of his own tunes from the 1920's and 30's along with Noble Sissle and Ivan Harold Browning . . medleys from "Shuffle Along" (1921) and African-American shows from the turn of the century as well as ragtime and very early stride piano showpieces.
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WETF Broadcast - Jazz is Where You Find It II - Australia. Some great Swaggie record sessions featuring Bob and Len Barnard, Roger Bell, Tom Pickering and Ian Pearce .. a terrific blend of Traditional, New Orleans, Swing and even some later styles of Jazz.
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Hot Trumpets - focus on the trumpets this time. Red Nichols, Syd Valentine, Jack Purvis, Bill Coleman, Duncan Whyte, Arthur Briggs, Hot Lips Page, Frankie Newton and Max Kaminsky all featured with just a rhythm section, unencumbered by other horns! Records from the middle 1920's through the early 1940's reflecting numerous jazz styles and developments!
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Lighter Than A Feather - Red Norvo's Hickory House Band 1936
Small group featuring arrangements by Norvo and Eddie Sauter before Norvo's big band with Mildred Bailey came together (although she guests on one live side, as do Red McKenzie and Mae Questal). With Stew Pletcher, Herbie Haymer, Don McCook, Ram Ramirez, Howard Smith, Dave Barbour, Pete Peterson and Moe Purtill.
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The Blues Revival in the 1930's - Vocalion and Decca sides by Ida Cox, Trixie Smith and Grant and Wilson 1938-1940 featuring Red Allen, Charlie Shavers, Hot Lips Page, J.C. Higginbotham, Sidney Bechet, Edmond Hall, James P. Johnson, Fletcher Henderson, Sammy Price, Charlie Christian, Teddy Bunn and Lionel Hampton
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Benny Carter was renowned for his playing and arranging and those acknowledgements go back to his first professional associations. Here are recordings he did between 1928 and 1931 with Charlie Johnson's Paradise Orchestra, Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra, The Chocolate Dandies and McKinney's Cotton Pickers (featuring Don Redman, Coleman Hawkins, Sidney DeParis, Rex Stewart, Bobby Stark, Joe Smith, Jimmy Harrison, Claude Jones, Ed Cuffee, Prince Robinson, Fats Waller, Todd Rhodes, and J.C. Higginbotham)
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Keith Ingham New York 9 . . .recordings made in 1992 and 2001 for the Jump label featuring some of the best in the business - Randy Reinhardt, Dan Barrett, Phil Bodner, Ken Peplowski, Scott Robinson, James Chirillo, Greg Cohen, Murray Wall, Vince Giordano, Keith Ingham and Arnie Kinsella playing Ingham's arrangements and rearrangements of swing classics and unknowns alike....
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Jelly Roll Morton the sideman . . Recordings made by the legendary New Orleans pianist, composer and arranger with OTHER groups- although the Jelly Roll influence is everywhere. Recordings with Johnny Dunn's Original Jazz Hounds, Wingy Manone and His Orchestra, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Edmonia Henderson and WIlton Crawley and His Orchestra (1923-1934)
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J.J. Johnson first sessions as leader for Savoy and Prestige 1946-1949. Great early Bebop with Sonny Rollins, Kenny Dorham, Bud Powell, Leo Parker, Cecil Payne, John Lewis and others!
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Pic-A-Rib with Ben Pollack . . .small band dixieland sides from the legendary drummer stretching from 1939 to 1952. Featured in the various editions of the band are Muggsy Spanier, Charles LaVere, Ben Kanter, King Guion, Matty Matlock, Dick Cathcart, Ted Vessely, Moe Schneider, Ray Sherman and Jack and Charlie Teagarden.
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You'se A Viper - Stuff Smith and His Onyx Club Boys. Great Vocalion, Commodore and live sides featuring this busy 52nd street band and some of the hottest music of the era. Jazz violin never sounded so good backed up by Jonah Jones, Cozy Cole, Clyde Hart, Ben Webster and Buster Bailey
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Benny Carter in Europe . . All these recordings were made in the first half of 1936 in Paris or London. Carter went over to play and arrange for the Willie Lewis Band and then to work for the BBC Radio Orchestra. These are fantastic records of his own arranging and playing (alto, tenor, clarinet, piano and trumpet) with a variety of musicians including Joe Hayman, Bobby Martin, Tommy McQuarter, Andy McDevitt, Buddy Featherstonaugh, Bernard Addison and Gene Rogers
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Jimmy Harrison - great trombonist of the 1920's who was an influence on Jack Teagarden .Harrison is heard here with Charlie Johnson, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Benny Carter and Clarence Williams
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Clyde Hart . . unheralded pianist who recorded with everyone from Red Allen and Eddie Condon to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. A transitional figure from swing to bop, Hart died of TB at the very moment he was being embraced by the modernists. This is a selection of recordings made during 1944 and 45 (he died in March, 1945) featuring Hart with Eddie Condon, Dizzy Gillespie, Tiny Grimes, Trummy Young, Charlie Parker, Don Byas, Hot Lips Page, Ben Webster, Lester Young and Charlie Shavers
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The King Jazz Story - recordings by the reed tandem of Sidney Bechet and Mezz Mezzrow in the middle 1940's . . also featuring Hot Lips Page, James P. Johnson, Sammy Price, Kaiser Marshall, Baby Dodds, Wellman Braud, Sid Catlett, Pops Foster and Vernon Brown
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Smoky Wood . . practically unknown Western Swing pianist influenced instrumentally, vocally and comically by Fats Waller. These sides for Bluebird in the mid 1930's feature his band, the Modern Mountaineers and Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers, with basically similar personnel. Great reed playing by Hal Herbert, trumpet by George Clark, violin by Cecil Brower and JR Chatwell and steel guitar by JC Way. Lots of Jazz here!
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Great small group recording sessions led by xylophonist and marimbaist Red Norvo featuring Bunny Berigan, Stew Pletcher, Jimmy Dorsey, Don McCook, Johnny Mince, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman (on bass clarinet!), Jack Jenney, Charlie Barnet, Chu Berry, Herbie Haymer, Teddy Wilson, Ram Ramirez, Dick McDonough, Artie Bernstein, Moe Purtill and Gene Krupa . . Red knew his musicians . . . .
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Bands from Cuba and musicians from Trinidad and Tobago playing jazz-influenced music with Caribbean rhythms from the 1920's and 30's - Charlie Shavers, Billy Kyle, Porter Granger and Rupert Cole appear with traditional musicians like Don Barretto (recording in Paris and sounding a lot like Django), Don Azpiasu, Sam Manning and Jack Sneed
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Teddy Hill and His Orchestra . . interesting but short-lived big band that recorded from 1936-7 or so and featured Roy Eldridge, Chu Berry, Dickie Wells, Cecil Scott, Frankie Newton, Shad Collins, Russell Procope, Howard Johnson, Sam Allen, Bill Beason and, for his first recorded solos, Dizzy Gillespie!
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Sidney Bechet in the 1930's . . .with Noble Sissle's Swingsters, Tommy Ladnier's Orchestra, Sidney Bechet Orchestra . .featuring Ernie Caceres, Mezz Mezzrow, Cliff Jackson, Billy Banks, Clarence Brereton, Leonard Ware
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Benny Goodman the sideman! While he was leading the most popular big band in the country, BG still made occasional appearances in the recording studio with other bands - Teddy Wilson, Mel Powell and Gene Krupa's sessions are presented here with BG along with the leaders, Harry James, Jonah Jones, Roy Eldridge, Chu Berry, Ben Webster, Jess Stacy and Israel Crosby among others.
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Great concert recordings by Johnny Hodges with the Duke Ellington All Stars at the Sportpalast in March, 1961 . . The Duke was busy composing the music for Paris Blues so Hodges took this group on a short European tour. Ray Nance, Lawrence Brown, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Al Williams, Aaron Bell and Sam Woodyard play Ellington standards and features for each member.
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Sunset of Swing - the mid 1940's sessions done for Eddie Laguna's Sunset records in Los Angeles . . lots of Willie Smith, Vido Musso, Charlie Ventura, Howard Magee, Arnold Ross, Dave Barbour, Lem Davis, Emmett Berry, Vic Dickenson, Herbie Haymer, Harry Edison and a 16 year old Andre Previn
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Herschel Evans . .Basie's "other" tenor sax player doing sideman sessions with Harry James, Lionel Hampton and Mildred Bailey. Hear Chris Griffin, Vernon Brown, Benny Carter, Dave Matthews, Charlie Shavers, Teddy Wilson and Jess Stacy among others! Studio recordings and a jam session from the Bill Savory collection.
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1920's recordings featuring some of the clarinetists active on the scene with just rhythm section accompaniment. Jimmy Lytell, Wilton Crawley, Boyd Senter, George McClennon, Buster Bailey, Bob Fuller and Tony Parenti in recordings from the 1920's featuring just clarinet and rhythm section (including Louis Hooper, Elmer Snowden, Eddie Lang, Frank Signorelli, Eddie Heywood Sr. and Harry Reser)
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Got No Time - Jane Green . . largely forgotten and unheralded at the time, Jane Green was an accomplished Broadway and Vaudeville singer who made about thirty recordings and a few film appearances during the 1920's. She incorporated some of the newer blues-styled approaches to singing pop music and was tremendously energetic and fiery in her interpretations of tunes by Donaldson, Gershwin, Isham Jones and others. Backed by the Virginians (led by Ross Gorman), Nat Shilkret's band and the Victor Recording Orchestra.
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Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald - Live in 1939 and 1940! One of the most exciting of the Swing Era bands - Chick Webb's group is captured in real life form on two broadcasts in 1939 and one (after Chick's death1940. Featuring Taft Jordan, Bobby Stark, Sandy Williams, Garvin Bushell, Eddie Barefield, Teddy McRae, Tommy Fulford, Ram Ramirez, John Truehart, Beverly Peer, Webb and Bill Beason with Ella singing.
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Jazz from Australia - Lazy Ade Monsbourgh and his recordings during the 1950's - featuring members of the Southern Jazz Group, the Graeme Bell band and Humphrey Lyttleton's band in England . .great and highly original traditional jazz featuring the dean of Australian jazz musicians playing clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, trombone and recorder . . .apologies in advance for some strange electric feedback during a couple of my narrations, but the music is unaffected!
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Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt with the seven and eight piece bands they led c. 1950 - bop, rhythm and blues and pop songs featuring Junior Mance, Benny Green and Art Blakey among others.
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Boston Bari - the Boston recordings of Serge Chaloff in 1949 and 1954/5. These groups were mostly working units in the Boston area and presented a great mix of Bebop, Swing, Cool and blues in sophisticated arrangements with great solo work - Chaloff, Herb Pomeroy, Boots Mussullli, Charlie Mariano, Ralph Burns, Dick Twardzik and Ray Santisi are featured.
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Hot Chicago Clarinets . . .several clarinet players active in Chicago in the 1920's (Johnny Dodds, Jimmy O'Bryant, Junie Cobb, Albert Nicholas, Vance Dixon and Benny Goodman) recording in trio format - no other horns, just rhythm and clarinet!
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WETF show - Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra live from the Spotlite in NY, May 1946. Great big band Bebop featuring Dave Burns, James Moody, Ray Abrams, Howard Johnson, Milt Jackson, Kenny Clarke and a rare (maybe unique) appearance by Thelonious Monk as a band pianist
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WETF show - Frankie Newton and Pete Brown - a great tandem of trumpet and alto sax who appeared together on numerous sessions in the 1930's . . Newton's Uptown Serenaders, Midge Williams, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Buster Bailey, Jimmy Noone and Jimmie Gordon. In addition to Newton, Brown, Noone, Bailey and Smith, hear Sammy Price, Edmund Hall, Cecil Scott, Don Frye, O'Neil Spencer and Teddy Bunn . ..some of my favorite small group sides of the Swing Era.
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God Is In The Band - Art Tatum in the rhythm section of several different bands from the 1930's and 40's - Art Tatum and His Band/Swingsters (Joe Thomas on trumpet, Edmond Hall, Oscar Moore, John Collins, Billy Taylor, Marshall Royal, Guy Kelly and Big Joe Turner), Barney Bigard and His Sextet (Joe Thomas on trumpet and another Joe Thomas on tenor sax), Coleman Hawkins and the Esquire All Stars (with Cootie Williams and Big Sid Catlett)
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New Orleans - 1927 . . some of the "road trip" sessions made by Victor and Columbia to record local bands, in this case in the spring of 1927 with Louis Dumaine, Wingy Manone, Papa Celestin, Sam Morgan and others - great NO dance music and jazz
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Ellington was an influence on other musicians as early as the late 1920's - here are bands from 1927-1938 playing his tunes (Creole Love Call, Black and Tan Fantasy, Mood Indigo, It Don't Mean A Thing, Old Man Blues, Solitude, Sophisticated Lady, etc.) and sometimes his arrangements as well . .Cab Calloway, Don Redman, Benny Goodman, the Washboard Rhythm Kings, Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Clyde McCoy, Red Nichols, Jimmie Lunceford (playing two tunes composed but unrecorded by Ellington), Bert Firman, McKinney's Cotton Pickers and several territory bands
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When the big band era went bust, Count Basie held on longer than most - not disbanding until late 1949, at which point he tried out several combos playing a mix of swing, bebop and R&B before finally settling on this Octet with arrangements by Neal Hefti and others. Featuring among others Clark Terry, either Buddy De Franco or Marshall Royal on clarinet, Wardell Gray on tenor, either Serge Chaloff or Rudy Rutherford on bari sax, Basie, Freddie Green and Buddy Rich!
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Edmund Hall was one of the most distinctive and accomplished clarinetists in the Trad Jazz style from 1940 until he passed away in 1967. This podcast focuses on the recordings he made for Blue Note in the 1940's under his own name and with James P. Johnson, Art Hodes and Sidney DeParis. The Hall sessions feature more swing-oriented groups with Charlie Christian (playing acoustic guitar!), Meade Lux Lewis (on celeste!), Red Norvo and Teddy Wilson while the others utilize the talents of Sidney DeParis, Max Kaminsky, Vic Dickenson, James P. Johnson, Art Hodes, Carl Kress, Jimmy Shirley, Everett Barksdale, John Simmons and Sid Catlett, among others.
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Live sessions featuring an otherwise unrecorded version of Turk Murphy's band in May, 1968 at the Concord Armory and the Muskataquid Club with Ed Johnson, Turk, Jack Crook, Pete Clute, Bob Carroll, Smokey Stover and Pat Yankee
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Pete Brown - the legendary alto sax (and occasional trumpet) player in countless bands of the 1930's and 40's had a fantastically humorous and bouncy style evident on sessions with Buster Bailey, Midge Williams and Leonard Feather featuring players like Charlie Shavers, Bill Coleman, Joe Marsala, Benny Carter, Bobby Hackett, Billy Kyle and O'Neil Spencer.
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Recordings by the house band at Nick's in 1945 featuring Muggsy Spanier, Pee Wee Russell, Miff Mole, Ernie Caceres and Lou McGarity among others . .Good straight ahead Dixieland/Traditional Jazz by a band that was doing it every night!.
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One of the best (and most underrated) Jazz singers of the 1930's was Mildred Bailey - a member of the Coeur D'Alene native American tribe, she grew up in Seattle where, with her brother Al Rinker, began performing in the Jazz style of the 1920's. After being hired by Paul Whiteman, she began singing on recording sessions in New York in the early 30's. She married Red Norvo in 1933 and was featured with his band, being billed as "Mr. and Mrs. Swing" until the early 40's. During that time she made many recording sessions with Jazz players who appreciated her style. The three sessions on this show feature Bunny Berigan, Johnny Hodges, Chris Griffin, Chu Berry, Mary Lou Williams, Teddy Wilson, Floyd Smith and others as well as first rate singing.
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These are some of the fruits of Ralph Peer's first "Road Trip" for OKeh records . . he brought the recording studio on the road to New Orleans in March, 1924 and then again in January 1925 and recorded some local dance bands and Jazz groups. Here we will be listening to groups led by Johnny DeDroit, Tony Parenti, Norman Brownlee, Oscar Celestin and Armand Piron as well as the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, The Halfway House Orchestra and the Original Crescent City Jazzers. These groups featured musicians as well known as Tony Parenti, Leon Roppolo, Paul Mares, Santo Pecora, Sharkey Bonano, Sterling Bose, Kid Shots Madison, Lorenzo Tio, Jr. and Harry Shields as well as a host of other lesser known players.
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Three sessions for the new Decca record label featuring the Earl Hines Orchestra that was playing at the Grand Terrace in Chicago. Walter Fuller, George Dixon and Trummy Young in the brass section, Omer Simeon, Darnell Howard and Cecil Irwin in the reeds .. . Jimmy Mundy and Quinn Wilson doing arrangements and Wallace Bishop on drums . . great band, great jazz solos!
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Three groups of chamber jazz . . the Bechet-Spanier Big Four with Sidney Bechet, Muggsy Spanier, Carmen Mastren, Wellman Braud. .. The Delta Four with Roy Eldridge, Joe Marsala, Carmen Mastren, Sid Weiss and Rex Stewart's Feetwarmers with Rex Stewart, Barney Bigard, Django Reinhardt and Billy Taylor. All 1935-40!
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The Rhythmic Eight - a subset of the Bert Firman Orchestra, recording in London from 1927-30. Some excellent British musicians (Arthur Lally, Johnny Helfer, Bert Read, Norman Payne) joined by some travelling Yanks (Perley Breed, Sylvester Ahola, Frank Guarente, Danny Polo, Joe Brannelly) to record stocks and special arrangements of contemporary pop tunes.
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Knocky Parker - the amazingly versatile pianist whose career went from Texas Blues (he learned from Blind Lemon Jefferson), Western Swing (The Light Crust Doughboys) and traditional Jazz (Doc Evans, Carol Leigh and Yank Lawson/Bob Haggart) . . he does some fantastic versions of Joe Sullivan showpieces
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Roy Eldridge - the first Roy Eldridge Orchestra (an octet including his brother Joe, Teddy Cole and Zutty Singleton) live from the Three Deuces in New York in 1937; another version of a similar group doing 1943 transcriptions (a nonet with Joe, Ike Quebec, Tom Archia and Harold West), and a band (another nonet with Franz Jackson, Clyde Hart and gteat clarinet by Prince Robinson) captured live at the Arcadia Ballroom in Chicago in 1939. Some of the best Swing trumpet ever recorded!
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The John Kirby Sextet - transcription recordings for Lang Worth in 1940 and 41 . . great playing by Charlie Shavers, Buster Bailey, Russell Procope, Billy Kyle, John Kirby, O'Neil Spencer and especially Maxine Sullivan - doing a number of charts they did not record commercially. The "Biggest Little Band In The Land" featured incredibly sophisticated arrangements, immaculate playing and great solos in addition to the stylish vocals of Sullivan.
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Herman Chittison . .the great African American pianist who recorded solos and accompaniments in France as well as piano trios (a la Art Tatum) in the US . . also some vocal accompaniments for Ethel Waters and Thelma Carpenter.
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The Light Crust Doughboys are on the air . . .a tribute to a superb Western Swing band featuring excellent soloists - Kenneth Pitts, Marvin Montgomery, Leon Huff, Kermit Whalin, Zeke Campbell and especially Knocky Parker on piano!
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WETF show on TNT -Jack and Charlie Teagarden and Frank Trumbauer recording with members of the Whiteman band in the iddle 1930's. Cameos by Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Johnny Mince and Casper Reardon (on harp!)
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This was quite an anomaly - a free blowing jazz session in the heart of the depression with an integrated band! Red Allen, Pee Wee Russell, Fats Waller, Joe Sullivan, Eddie Condon, Gene Krupa, Zutty Singleton, Pops Foster, Tommy Dorsey, Happy Caldwell and the indescribable vocalist Billy Banks!
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There were several jazz players named Joe Thomas - this one was perhaps the best! A trumpeter who worked with Fletcher Henderson and a number of other big bands, he really came to prominence during the 1940's in assorted small group swing recordings. This podcast features some of the great sessions he made for the Keynote label with players such as Jack Teagarden, Earl Hines, Trummy Young, Red Norvo, Hilton Jefferson, Coleman Hawkins and Vic Dickenson as well as some lesser known but superb players such as Ted Nash and Hank D'Amico.
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This episode of the Jazz Focus focuses on the 1937 sessions done by trombonist Dicky Wells when he was with Teddy Hill's band on a tour of Europe . . recorded for Swing in July, 1937 these feature Wells with Bill Coleman, Shad Collins, Bill Dillard, Howard Johnson, Django Reinhardt, Roger Chaput, Sam Allen, Dick Fullbright and Bill Beason . . all instrumental!
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A great English band from 1931-34 also featuring jazz players like Nat Gonella, Lew Davis, Freddy Gardner, Laurie Payne, Max Goldberg. Noble's arrangements were very much ahead of their time and influenced later big band writers like Glenn Miller and Claude Thornhill. In addition to that, Bowlly was one of the most underrated singers of the period - very much in Bing Crosby's class.
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Hoagy's first records with territory bands and also member of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. Songs like "March of The Hoodlums" should really be revived! Hoagy sings, arranges, composes and plays piano (and cornet) on these records.
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The great, if somewhat forgotten Bebop trumpet player who was really the only rival to Dizzy Gillespie in terms of range, power and sound. This program features his recordings for the Savoy label - under his own name and with Dexter Gordon, Eddie "LockJaw" Davis and Tadd Dameron. In addition to these musicians, listen also to Ernie Henry, Leo Parker, Charlie Rouse and Art Blakey.
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These are the twelve sides recorded by, I would argue, the greatest edition of the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra. In effect a swan song, these were recorded in the fall of 1934 for the brand new Decca label just before the band broke up in November, with Henderson moving on to begin his association with Benny Goodman before reforming his band in 1936. This group features solos from just about everyone except lead trumpet Russell Smith . .Irving Randolph and Red Allen on trumpets, Keg Johnson and Claude Jones on trombone, Hilton Jefferson, Russell Procope and for one number Benny Carter on alto sax, Ben Webster on tenor sax, Buster Bailey on clarinet, Fletcher and Horace Henderson on piano, Lawrence Lucie on guitar, Elmer James on bass and Walter Johnson on drums, with arrangements by the Hendersons, Carter, Russ Morgan and Will Hudson. The first recordings of the Swing Era were these!
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This program is devoted to the recordings made under Clarence Williams' name that featured his fellow New Orleans native, King Oliver. Made between May and December of 1928, most of these recordings feature the 1920's version of a big band with solos by Oliver, Buster Bailey, Arville Harris, Ed Cuffee and Benny Waters with a cameo by Eddie Lang.
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The first of the jazz albums presented George Avakian when he was still a college student! This one was devoted to the white musicians active on the Chicago Jazz scene in the 1920's who were still playing in 1940. These were players who were teenagers in the 1920's and who haunted places like the Lincoln Gardens to hear the music played by great New Orleans players. Sessions led by Eddie Condon, Jimmy McPartland and George Wettling and featuring Max Kaminsky, Pee Wee Russell, Bud Freeman, Boyce Brown, Dave Tough and Joe Marsala demonstrate how the style grew.
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Another idea of George Avakian's, this 1940 album celebrates some of the New Orleans jazz pioneers still active at the time in new recordings, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Jimmie Noone, Johnny Dodds, Red Allen and Zutty Singleton lead the sessions featuring Wellman Braud, Ed Hall, Natty Dominique, Baby Dodds, Lonnie Johnson and Lil Hardin Armstrong among others.
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From the mind of George Avakian, this series of record dates was made in 1940 (with one exception) and released as an album celebrating the music of Kansas City of the late 1920's and 30's. Count Basie and Andy Kirk are the featured bands, with small group sessions by Mary Lou Williams, Hot Lips Page, Eddie Durham, Pete Johnson and Joe Turner as well.
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Reuben "River" Reeves . . groomed to be a competitor to Louis Armstrong, Reeves never achieved the notoriety or public exposure he might have. Nevertheless, his recordings in the 1920's with his River Boys (including Omer Simeon, William Barbee and others) were excellent jazz features, while his solos with the Cab Calloway and Fess Williams bands show him to have been an underrated trumpet player of the time.
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Jimmy Rushing in the 1950's. . .these recordings were taken from several albums Mr Five by Five recorded for Columbia in the late 1950's - many have a big band led by Buck Clayton with arrangements by Clayton, Nat Pierce and Jimmy Mundy. Great solos by Coleman Hawkins, Buddy Tate, Clayton, Vic Dickenson, Benny Morton, Dickie Wells, Hilton Jefferson, Claude Hopkins , Ben Webster, Helen Humes, Buster Bailey and Urbie Green.
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. Milton Brown and His Brownies! Western Swing in the 1930's - great jazz by a string group and a superb vocalist! This group was more jazz than country and featured one of the first electric guitarists to be be recorded - Bob Dunn, as well as an excellent barrelhouse piano player named Fred "Papa" Calhoun.
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Pee Wee Russell 1938 - two sessions . .the Pee Wee Russell Rhythm Makers with James P. Johnson, Freddie, Greene, Walter Page, Zutty Singleton and Dickie Wells and the Rhythm Cats transcriptions with Bobby Hackett, Brad Gowans and Ernie Caceres .. .
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This focus is on two albums recorded by Big Joe Turner in the late 50's for Atlantic. Coming off his success as a senior rock and roll singer ("Shake Rattle and Roll was 1954), Turner returned to his KC roots to sing blues and standards with two all star groups including Coleman Hawkins, Lawrence Brown, Pete Brown, Pete Johnson, Freddie Green, Walter Page, Ernie Royal and Vic Dickenson.
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Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band was one of the most consistently popular group in the New Orleans/Dixieland Jazz Revival from the middle 1940's through the mid 1960's. For this version of the band, Ory hired the great trumpeter Red Allen for a European tour in the fall of 1959. Prior to this, they recorded an album for Verve also featuring Bob McCracken on clarinet, Cedric Haywood on piano and Alton Redd on drums and vocals. Tracks from the album and a live date in Berlin are the focus of this podcast.
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Today we listen to some of the jazzier sides recorded by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, mostly in the 1930's. "Western Swing" as a term didn't come into use until the middle 1940's - these players considered themselves jazz musicians and their playing on standards like "Lady Be Good," "White Heat," "Wang Wang Blues," "Who Walks In When I Walk Out" and others demonstrate this very well. The most impressive soloists are Jesse Ashlock on violin and Leon McAuliffe on steel and electric guitar, but acoustic guitarist Eldon Shamblin, pianist Al Stricklin, trumpeters Everett Stover and Tubby Lewis, sax/clarinet players Ray DeGeer, Charles Laughton and Wayne Johnson should not be overlooked either!
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The great clarinet player Omer Simeon was known for his recordings with Jelly Roll Morton in the 1920's, Earl Hines in the 1930's, Jimmy Lunceford and Kid Ory in the 1940's and Wilbur DeParis in the 1950's . . .here are a series of small group dates from 1929 on which he is featured with Reuben "River" Reeves, Jabbo Smith, Richard M. Jones and the Dixie Rhythm Kings, featuring members of the Earl Hines band. The two small group recordings Simeon did under his own name (one including Hines himself) are included here as well.
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Hilton Jefferson was known to musicians more than the public - as lead alto for Fletcher Henderson, Claude Hopkins, Cab Calloway and many others, he was often featured on ballads to show off his gorgeous sound, but here we are featuring him on more rhythmic tunes from some all star swing combos of the middle 1940's with a few ballads thrown in besides. Jonah Jones, Joe Thomas, Tyree Glenn, Ike Quebec, Jerry Jerome, Bernie Leighton, Eddie Barefield, Coleman Hawkins, Milt Hinton, Cozy Cole and Panama Francis are just a few of the notables featured here, but the focus is really on Jefferson, whose playing is a model of consistency, musicality and some innovation as well.
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The TD Clambake Seven recording for radio transcriptions in 1936 . . Max Kaminsky, TD, Joe Dixon, Edythe Wright and Dave Tough playing some standards ("Jada", "Somebody Stole My Gal" "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?" "My Honey's Lovin' Arms") as well as contemporary tunes ("Cabin In the Sky" "I'll Bet You Tell That To All The Girls") . .some great jazz.
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The records Louis Armstrong made with Maggie Jones in 1924 were ones he singled out as favorites of his later in his life. Here she is featured on four numbers with him (including the very special "Does Anyone Here Want to Try My Cabbage?") one with Charlie Green, and several with Fletcher Henderson units, members of the Original Indiana Five, and an Elmer Snowden group.
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The 1976-78 recordings by the Anachronic Jazz Band were both traditional and innovative. By taking tunes by Bebop and later composers (Clifford Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane) and filtering them through a 1920's sensibility they showed the continuity of the Jazz tradition with great arrangements of and solos on tunes like "Round Midnight," "Yardbird Suite," "Giant Steps" and "Joy Spring."
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Mary Lou Williams was one of the finest pianists of the 1920's and 30's . . . she was also a very under-appreciated arranger and composer. Her work here on the early Andy Kirk and His Clouds Of Joy recordings as well as a couple of earlier sides with her then-husband, reedman John Williams show a fine combination of playing, composing and arranging. Kirk's band was also one of the hottest and most interesting groups in Kansas City at that point.
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This is a look at the sessions Dizzy Gillespie led in 1945 -46 without Charlie Parker. The Diz and Bird sides have received a lot of attention, but the recording dates that Parker wasn't hired (or just didn't show up) for are fascinating as well. Gillespie leads and is heavily featured on tunes with Don Byas, Lucky Thompson, Dexter Gordon, Trummy Young, Clyde Hart, Al Haig and someone who may or may not be Thelonious Monk.
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An examination of the duet recordings made by Classic Blues singer Bessie Smith and stride pianist James P. Johnson in October 1929.
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A reunion of the stars of the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in 1956 - Rex Stewart, Dick Vance, Taft Jordan, Joe Thomas, Emmett Berry, Dickie Wells, Benny Morton, JC Higginbotham, Buster Bailey, Hilton Jefferson, Garvin Bushell, Ben Websters, Coleman Hawkins, Rudy Rutherford, Red Richards, Al Casey, Bill Pemberton, Jimmy Crawford . . Henderson arrangements and a few new things.
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The roots of Western Swing - Roy Newman and His Boys - string band with piano and clarinet playing Jazz
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A look at the Gold Coast Jazz Band of Chicago, circa 1960 featuring Ted Butterman, Kim Cusack, John Cooper, Art Gronwall, Peter Niegaard, Bob Sundstrom, Mike Walbridge, Ransom Knowling, Wayne Jones and Booker T Washington
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