Jazz Focus

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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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 . . . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support