Jazz Focus

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

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

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

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

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

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

Swedish Jazz - recordings made in Sweden by jazz players influenced by late swing and early bop musicians - Lars Gullin, Arne Domnerus and many others --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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

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

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