Jazz Focus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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