Jazz Focus

Teddy Wilson and Edmund Hall . . superb chamber jazz recordings from the early to mid 1940's featuring both players in sextet and quartet settings for Commodore and various transcriptions. . with Joe Thomas, Emmett Berry, Sid Catlett --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

A Prince of a Fellow - recordings from 1926-45 featuring the underrated Prince Robinson on tenor sax and clarinet with Duke Ellington's early band, Clarence Williams, Benny Moten, Billie Holiday, McKinney's Cotton Pickers and others . . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

The Other Smith (one of them, anyway) - Clara Smith in the 1920's.  Great Classic Blues with Lem Fowler, Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson and many others  . . .not only blues, but hot dance, tent show standards, and pop of the 20's as well. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

In The Middle - Transition recordings with Bebop and Swing musicians (1938-1945) . .featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke, Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell with Coleman Hawkins, Georgie Auld, Joe Marsala, Edgar Hayes, Rudy Powell, Henry Goodwin, Chuck Wayne, Cliff Jackson, Chu Berry, Benny Carter and Lionel Hampton --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

WETF Show - Clarence Williams Jugs and Washboards - 1930's.  Small Groups featuring Ed Allen, Eva Taylor, Cecil Scott, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Cyrus St. Clair and others.  Great small group swing in the Depression, leading to the Swing Era. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

Mingus Fingers . . early (1945-49) recordings by various Charles Mingus groups on the West Coast - a mix of swing, bop and almost Third Stream experiments, most composed and arranged by Mingus.  Featuring Buddy Collette, Karl George, Eric Dolphy, Willie Smith, Maxwell Davis, William "Brother" Woodman, Britt Woodman, Henry Coker, Wilbert Baranco, Lady Will Carr, Claude Trenier --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

Jack Teagarden and Pete Fountain . . they never recorded together, but they did each record albums with similar big band backing in 1960 or so . . featuring T's trombone and singing with Charlie Teagarden and Eddie Miller and Pete playing the blues with Miller and lots of West Coast studio guys . . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

WETF Show . . Milt Jackson and Thelonious Monk for Blue Note  . .1947, 52. . also featuring Sahib Shihab, Lou Donaldson, Kenny Clarke and others.  Great small group bop/hard bop music through the prism of both Jackson's and Monk's different, but complimentary, visions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

Clarence Williams . . sides done mostly with larger bands, 1933-37.  Ed Allen, Charlie Gaines, Eva Taylor, Cecil Scott, Prince Robinson, Buster Bailey, Russell Procope, Cyrus St. Clair and Floyd Casey doing some interesting proto-swing sides --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band . .recordings made in the 1990's running the gamut from ragtime and Jelly Roll through late period swing.  Featuring Jon Erik Kellso, Bob Smith, Kim Cusack, Russ Whitman, Rod MacDonald, Dave Sager, Mike Karoub, Wayne Jones, Paul Klinger, Pierre Ferran, Mike Walbridge and the Chenille Sisters --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support