Jazz Focus

Feeling a Draft - Roy Eldridge and Oscar Peterson  . . Eldridge featured in 1953 and 54 for Norman Granz backed by the Peterson quartet (Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and either Alvin Stoller or Buddy Rich) . .great playing by the trumpeter- some more reflective and introspective than expected. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

WETF show ..The Trumpeter's Prayer . . King Oliver and His Orchestra on Victor, 1929-30 featuring Louis Metcalf, Punch Miller, Red Allen, Ward Pinkett, Jimmy Archey, Charlie Holmes, Hilton Jefferson, Glyn Pacque, Charles Frazier, James P. Johnson, Don Frye, Manzie Johnson and Roy Smeck --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

Christopher Columbus - The Fletcher Henderson band at the Grand Terrace in Chicago, 1936-38.  Studio recordings for Victor and Vocalion as well as a live broadcast . . Roy Eldridge, Emmett Berry, Fernando Arbello, Al Wynn, Buster Bailey, Hilton Jefferson, Eddie Barefield, Chu Berry, Franz Jackson, Horace Henderson, John Kirby, Sid Catlett and Pete Suggs --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

WETF Show - Pardon Me, Pretty Baby . . .recordings made by Coleman Hawkins in Europe (Paris and Holland) in 1937-8 . . featuring Freddy Johnson, Benny Carter, Andre Ekyan, Alix Combelle, George Chisholm, Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli and Tommy Benford --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

WETF Show- Barrelhouse Piano - Three great Chicago blues and barrelhouse pianists - George Zack (with Danny Alvin), Tut Soper (with Baby Dodds) and Art Hodes (solo) from 1942-44. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

Pianist Art Hodes and clarinetist Rod Cless made a unique and satisfying partnership until Cless died in 1944.  Both steeped in the Chicago jazz tradition, their recordings on Signature (the Art Hodes Trio and the Chicago Boys with Marty Marsala and Earl Murphy), Decca (with Sidney DeParis, Brad Gowans, Eddie Condon, Murphy and Zutty Singleton) and live (with George Brunies, Duke Duval, Jacques Butler and Joe Grauso) compliment their better known efforts on Blue Note, which will be on a later podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

Clifford Brown on the West Coast . .great records for Pacific with the "cool" school. .Zoot Sims, Herb Geller, Bob Gordon, Shelly Manne, Joe Maini, Kenny Drew, Walter Benton, Stu Williamson and others backing up the great bop and Hard Bop Trumpeter --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

We Don't Know From Nothin' - Don Redman and His Orchestra, 1936-37 . . featuring his big band and a small group backing singer Bob Howard . .with Shirley Clay, Harold "Shorty" Baker, Benny Morton, Ed Inge, Robert Carroll, Don Kirkpatrick, Sid Catlett, Manzie Johnson and Harlan Lattimore . Great swing as well as some novelties and superior jazz from all players. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

Bob Thiele and Bobby Hackett ..two records for Flying Dutchman in the 1970's . . "The 20's Score Again" - with Hackett, Pee Wee Erwin, Max Kaminsky, Urbie Green, Buddy Morrow, Johnny Mince, Clarence Hutchenrider, Hank Jones, Art Ryerson, Richard Davis, Ted Sommer . . ."What A Wonderful World" - Hackett, Vic Dickenson, Green, Mince, Hutchenrider and Teresa Brewer . .great, late period Condon-style dixieland --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

Keep Cool - late period Django Reinhardt - electric guitar and bebop, although some acoustic as well (including the definitive solo version of Nuages from 1950) . . Pierre Michelot, Hubert Rostaing, Stephane Grappelli, Hubert Fol, Raymond Fol and many others of the French modern Jazz school --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support