Jazz Focus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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