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Jazz Focus

A focused look at some specific moments in recorded Jazz history Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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01:10:41

Everybody Shuffle - Ben Webster and the big bands,...

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2023/10/31

Series of recordings by Harlem-based big bands, all featuring Ben Webster's emerging tenor sax. . .Benny Carter, Willie Bryant, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, Teddy Wilson and Duke Ellington all prized Webster . . recordings also feature Shad Collins, Irving Randolph, Emmett Berry, Jerry Blake, Keg Johnson, Jake Wiley, Glyn Paque, Garvin Bushell, Leroy Maxey, Shorty Baker, Karl George, Joe Nanton, Barney Bigard and Ivy Anderson . . . --- Support this podcast:

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00:59:44

WETF - Dizzy Gillespie 1951-3 . .Savoy and live...

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2023/10/31

Bebop meets R&B . . the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (Dizzy, Bill Graham on baritone sax, Wade Legge, Milt Jackson or Wynton Kelly on piano, Al Jones on drums, Percy Heath on bass) with Milt Jackson on vibes, Joe Caroll and Melvin Moore singing, and Stuff Smith on violin. 1951 recordings for DeeGee and Savoy and live at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, 1953. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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01:09:05

Earl Hines - small groups and solos 1939-44

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2023/10/30

Earl Hines' very few solo recordings during this period - Blue Note, Victor and Bluebird as well as a trio with Al Casey and Oscar Pettiford and a Keynote session led by Charlie Shavers with Tab Smith. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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01:02:54

Charlie Barnet 1933-37

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2023/10/25

The early recordings by the Charlie Barnet Orchestra (and Glen Island Casino Orchestra and California Ramblers) . . before he hit it big, good records featuring the leader, Kermit Simmons, Chris Griffin (trumpet), Don Morres (clarinet), Bill Miller and Red Norvo (piano) and others . . transitional swing! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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00:55:25

WETf Show - Kenny Clarke and the beboppers - 1946-49

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2023/10/25

Great early bop sessions led by the innovative drummer including Fats Navarro, Kenny Dorham, Benny Bailey and Howard McGhee on trumpets, Julius Watkins on french horn, Sonny Stitt, John Brown, Jimmy Heath and Hubert Fol on altos, Jimmy Powell, Billy Mitchell and Ray Abrams on tenors, Eddie De Verteuil and Cecil Payne on baris, John Lewis and Bud Powell on piano, John Collins on guitar and Al Hall, Curly Russell and Al McKibbon on basses . . 1946-49 --- Support this podcast:

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01:00:22

Crying Sands - Chubby Jackson in the 1940's

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2023/10/17

Great small groups using Woody Herman's musicians (Conte Candoli, Bill Harris, Flip Phillips, Billy Bauer, Tony Aless, Arnold Fishkind, Dave Tough, Shelly Manne, Mel Zelnick, Frank Socolow and Emmett Carls) and some guests including Howard McGhee and Denzil Best. These sides are on the cusp of Bebop, done for Keynote, Prestige and Esquire in 1945, 47, 48 and 49. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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00:59:14

WETF Show - Jonah Jones in the 1930's

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2023/10/17

A wide range of 1930's swing groups featuring the great trumpet player Jonah Jones . . groups led by Adrian Rollini, Dick Porter (with Edgar Sampson, Clyde Hart and Joe Marsala), Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson (Benny Goodman, Benny Carter, Ben Webster, Harry Carney, Johnny Hodges) and Lil Armstrong (Don Stovall). Jones' consistency and authority marks him as one of the foremost trumpet players of the era --- Support this podcast:

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01:13:14

Perry Bradford - blues, jazz and more in the 1920's

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2023/10/13

Perry Bradford was the epitome of a hustling musician in the 1910's and 20's - largely responsible for bringing the first black singer (Mamie Smith) into the studio to record blues, he also had a series of recordings under his own name, featuring his own compositions and singing. Featured are Louis Armstrong, Louis Metcalf, Bubber Miley, Gus Aiken, Bud Aiken, Jimmy Harrison, Don Redman, Buster Bailey, Bob Fuller, Garvin Bushell, Willie "The Lion" Smith and James P. Johnson among

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00:57:33

WETF Show - Bob Brookmeyer on World Pacific 1950's

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2023/10/13

Selections from two great LPs featuring Brookmeyer playing valve trombone with a rhythm section (including future composer John Williams on piano!) and a blended group using some of Jimmy Giuffre's musicians - Jimmy Raney, Jim Hall, Bill Crow and Osie Johnson --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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01:06:23

Harlem Shuffle - more Harlem bands . .Lloyd and Cecil...

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2023/10/03

Great but under-recorded big bands from Harlem of the late 1920's - Leroy Smith's band, Joe Steele, Lloyd Scott's group later taken over by his brother Cecil, Wooding's Grand Central Redcaps. Early solos by Dickie Wells, Bill Coleman, Cecil Scott, Ward Pinkett, Wilbur DeParis, Jimmy Archey, Charlie Holmes, Don Frye and Joe Steele! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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00:59:41

WETF Show - Lester Young and the KC 7, 1939, 43, 44

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2023/10/03

Great studio recordings all featuring Lester Young on tenor sax, Dickie Wells on trombone and Jo Jones on drums, with either Buck Clayton or Bill Coleman on trumpets, Count Basie, Joe Bushkin, Ellis Larkins, Rodney Richardson, Freddie Green, Walter Page, and John Simmons. Recordings for Vocalion, Commodore, Signature and Keynote. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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01:03:09

Joe Haymes 1932-33 . .The best band you never heard

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2023/09/25

Great white dance band that recorded prolifically for many companies under many pseudonyms. Featuring soon-to-be stars Johnny Mince on clarinet, Pee Wee Erwin on trumpet, Dick Clark on tenor sax, Mike Doty on alto and Ward Silloway and Les Jenkins on trombones, the real centerpieces were the leader's arrangements, which were terrific examples of the early swing style. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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01:00:26

Early British Trad - Middle to late 1940's in London!

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2023/09/25

Early British Trad - The beginnings of the traditional jazz boom in England - New Orleans-styled dixieland by Freddy Mirfield's Garbage Men, Freddy Randall and His Band and George Webb's Dixielanders . .Wally Fawkes, Humphrey Lyttleton, Al Mead, Johnny Dankworth, Bruce Turner . . great hot sounds by young musicians! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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00:57:23

WETF Show - Bobby Hackett 1938-1939

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2023/09/22

First sides under the great cornetist's name - ranging from straight Condon-styled dixieland through progressive big band sounds in 1939 and 40 to Bix recreations. Also featuring George Brunies, Brad --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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01:02:09

Roy Eldridge and Zoot Sims - Paris, 1950

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2023/09/11

The great trumpeter and tenor saxophonist were on tour with Benny Goodman's Sextet (which never recorded) in the spring of 1950 and were engaged, singly and together, for three recording dates for Vogue. Joined by Goodman bandmates Dick Hyman and Ed Shaughnessy on one session and Gerald Wiggins and Kenny Clarke on the other two (with Pierre Michelot on all sides), Eldridge and Sims created a prototype for mainstream jazz! --- Support this podcast:

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00:57:39

WETF Show - Bud Freeman Trio and a little Eddie Miller

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2023/09/11

Great trio sides with Freeman's tenor sax backed by Jess Stacy and George Wettling in a series of sides for Commodore in 1938 and 1939. Along with that are the two sides by "Four of the Bobcats" from Bob Crosby's band - Eddie Miller, Bob Zurke, Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc. If that weren't enough - there is Freeman's comic skit "Private Jives" with Everett Sloan and Gertrude Lawrence . . . --- Support this podcast:

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01:04:28

Chick Webb - 1934!

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2023/09/07

The first regular band Chick Webb had at the Savoy Ballroom before Ella Fitzgerald joined. Taft Jordan, Bobby Stark, Sandy Williams, Pete Clark, Edgar Sampson, Elmer Williams, Joe Steele, Don Kirkpatrick, John Truehart, John Kirby and Webb himself created some classic big band sounds largely directed by the compositions and arrangements by Sampson. Records for Columbia, OKeh, Decca. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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00:55:31

WETF Show - Duke Ellington Trio 1953

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2023/09/07

Great Capitol recordings from a fairly unheralded period in Ellington's career. These show his abilities as a soloist - accompanied by bass and drums he has free reign to interpret his own works (some standard, some not) and one magnificent version of "All The Things You Are" from 1957. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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00:58:23

WETF Show - James P Johnson solos, 1921-1930

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2023/08/30

James P. Johnson solos - Great solo piano recordings by the great Harlem Stride master from 1921-1930. Several standards and pop tunes, but mostly originals by Johnson! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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01:00:23

Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band . . Yank Lawson and Bob...

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2023/08/24

Great band that made numerous LPs for Decca from 1951-58 organized around themes - Jelly Roll Morton, Ragtime, King Oliver, ODJB, etc. Featuring the core members - Yank Lawson, Lou McGarity, Bill Stegmeyer, Lou Stein, Bob Haggart and Cliff Leeman, the group was occasionally expanded by Peanuts Hucko, Cutty Cutshall, Billy Butterfield, Bud Freeman and George Barnes - a selection of their dixieland and swing work! --- Support this podcast:

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