Jazz Focus

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jack Teagarden 1939 - his first big band, featuring Ernie Caceres, Charlie Spivak, Dave Tough, Hub Lytle, Lee Castle and others - live and studio recordings --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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

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

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