Jazz Focus

Tuxedo Stomp - State Street Ramblers II . .too good to let go with one episode.  Two versions of the SST - the first featuring Natty Dominique with alto player Joe Walker  and Jimmy Blythe and WE Burton.  The second is a reed duo with Alvin Fernandez and Baldy MacDonald with Blythe, Burton, Bill Johnson and Clifford "Snags" Jones . .great hot jazz from the Southside of Chicago, 1928! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

Straight Life - two Contemporary albums from the late 1950's by Art Pepper - Plus Eleven and Meets The Rhythm Section . .good alto, clarinet and tenor by Pepper with Jack Sheldon, Russ Freeman, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

WETF show . . Fats Waller - the instrumental sides recorded for Bluebird in the 1930's - Herman Autrey, Johnny Hamilton, Gene Sedric, Rudy Powell, Benny Carter, Alton Moore, Gene Porter, Al Casey, John Smith, Yank Porter, Slick Jones, Charles Turner .  great piano and small group jazz --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

Earl Hines and Muggsy Spanier - the great band led by two Chicago stalwarts in the late 1950's - featuring very tight arrangements of dixieland standards, hot dance numbers and swing tunes also featuring Jimmy Archey, Darnell Howard, Pops Foster and Earl Watkins.  Live recordings! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

Lem Fowler - little known and largely forgotten pianist and composer.  He recorded numerous original tunes and arrangements, often in the company of the equally forgotten reedman Percy Glascoe.  Great hot washboard jazz of the 1920's in the company of Seymour Irick, Clarence Wheeler, and a very young Sidney DeParis. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

WETF Show - The Rampart Street Paraders . . great West Coast trad led and arranged by Matty Matlock, with Clyde Hurley, Abe Lincoln, Eddie Miller, Joe Rushton, Nick Fatool, George Van Eps and others . .1953-57! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

State Street Ramblers .  .Barrelhouse Stomp.  An ad hoc group of Chicago jazz and blues musicians recording in 1931 and 1932.  Very  free swinging and hot records featuring Roy Palmer, Darnell Howard, Bob Hudson, Big Bill Broonzy, Bat Robinson, Ed Hudson, Jimmy Blythe, Buddy Burton, Jimmy Bertrand --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

Edgar Hayes and His Orchestra . .Manhattan Jam . .1938-39 big band recordings by a little known group featuring great tunes and arrangements by the leader as well as Joe Garland (who also plays tenor and bass sax) and players such as Clyde Bernhardt, Robert Horton, Crawford Wethington, Henry Goodwin, Leonard Davis, Rudy Powell and a very young Kenny Clarke on drums and vibes --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

Bix and His Gang . . all the recordings by Bix Beiderbecke with his gang and with Bix and His Rhythm Jugglers . . Don Murray, Bill Rank, Tommy Dorsey, Izzy Friedman, Lennie Hayton and others..the roots of the modern trad jazz repertoire --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

WETF Show  Lady Who Swings The Band . . Mary Lou Williams band sides in the 1940's featuring Ed Hall, Frankie Newton, Dick Wilson, Ben Thigpen, as well as compositions and arrangements by Mary Lou herself --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support