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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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00:56:40

WETF Show - Cab Calloway and The Missourians 1929/30

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2024/06/03

The first band Cab Calloway led (on recording at least) had previously been known as the Missourians and before that the Original Cotton Club Orchestra. A relentlessly hot dance band, the group featured R.Q. Dickerson and Lammar Wright on trumpets, DePriest Wheeler on trombone, George Scott and William Thornton Blue dividing the clarinet and alto solos, Andrew Brown on tenor, Walter Thomas on tenor and baritone, Earres Prince on piano, Morris White on banjo, Jimmy Smith on tuba and Leroy Maxey on

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01:10:52

Wingy Manone in the 1920's

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2024/05/27

New Orleans trumpet player Manone was well-travelled in the 1920's . . here he is featured with his own groups in New Orleans (with Hal Jordy, Arnold Loyocano and Johnny Miller) and Chicago (with Frank Teschemacher, Wade Foster, Bud Freeman and George Wettling). Also with Barbecue Joe and His Hot Dogs (an almost unknown band with Miff Frink - a very hot trombone player) and Bennie Goodman and His Boys (with Freeman, Joe Sullivan and of course Benny Goodman)--- Support this podcast:

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00:57:27

WETF Show - Frank Assunto and Herb Ellis, 1962

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2024/05/27

Odd pairing - Assunto founded and led the Dukes of Dixieland which was at the height of its popularity in 1962. These recordings were done for Columbia at the same time as sessions by Herb Ellis and His All-Stars. Ellis was touring with the Dukes (with also included Fred Assunto on trombone, Jac Assunto on trombone and banjo, Gene Schroeder on piano, Bob Casey on bass, Charlie Lodice on drums and on two tunes, Edmond Hall guesting on clarinet) and recorded a mainstream session under his own name

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01:03:04

Mezzrow and Ladnier - 1938/9 and 1959

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2024/05/21

The remainder of the Panassie sessions of 1938 and the Rosetta Crawford Decca session of 1939 featuring trumpeters Tommy Ladnier and Sidney DeParis, clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow, James P. Johnson (piano), Teddy Bunn (guitar), Elmer James or Pops Foster (bass), Zutty Singleton or Manzie Johnson (drums). Two tunes from 1959 feature Mezzrow's Paris-based band.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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00:54:08

WETF Show - Don Byas 1946

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2024/05/21

Two great Savoy sessions by the peerless tenor saxophonist, featuring Teddy Brannon, Sanford Gold, Franklin Skeete and Max Roach . .definitely transition sessions between swing and bebop with superb ballad and uptempo playing. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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01:08:09

Le Rois Du Fox-Trot - Jean Pierre Morel, Hot Dance in...

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2024/05/15

Outstanding French band playing the music of the black dance bands of the 1920's - not recreations, but reinterpretations. Featuring the leader on cornet, Patrick Bacqueville on trombone and vocals, Marc Bresdin, Michel Bescont, Nicholas Montier on saxes, Gerard Gervois on tuba and Bernard Thevin on piano. Very hot and energetic live recordings! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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00:54:18

WETF Show - Side of Monk

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2024/05/15

Thelonious Monk made very few recordings as a sideman during the 1950's - here are a few samples! The Clark Terry Quartet (with Sam Jones and Philly Jo Jones), Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (with Bill Hardman, Johnny Griffin and Spanky DeBrest), Sonny Rollins' Quartet and Gigi Gryce's Quartet (with Blakey). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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01:00:59

Bill Coleman in Paris - 1935-38

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2024/05/07

Excellent jazz sessions for Swing, Ultraphone and Panachord featuring the great if unrecognized black trumpet player Bill Coleman. Sessions under his name and with Garnet Clark, Eddie Brunner and Willie Lewis (also featuring Edgar "Spider" Courance, Frank "Big Boy" Goudie, Christian Wagner, George Johnson, Joe Hayman, Django Reinhardt, Tommy Benford, June Cole, Alex Combelle and Noel Chiboust). --- Support this podcast:

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00:55:34

WETF Show - Frank Teschemacher

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2024/05/07

Chicago clarinetist Teschemacher influenced a generation of hot jazz players, despite dying in a car crash when he was in his mid-20's. Here he plays with several iterations of the Austin High Gang (with Muggsy Spanier, Mezz Mezzrow, Joe Sullivan, Jim Lannigan, Eddie Condon, Gene Krupa and Red McKenzie), Wingy Manone's band (with Art Hodes), Elmer Schoebel's Friars' Society Orchestra and possibly the Original Wolverines as well as with his own group consisting of himself, Mezz

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00:57:26

WETF Show - Early Thelonious - Monk in 1950 and 54

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2024/05/03

WETF Show - Early Monk - Thelonious Monk in 1950 and 1954 . .Two sessions during a very slow period of Monk's career - the Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie session (with Curley Russell and Buddy Rich) for Clef in 1950 and the solo session in Paris in 1954 featuring mostly Monk originals--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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01:05:24

Jimmy McPartland - Chicago, 1920's

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2024/04/30

Great sessions featuring Chicago cornetist Jimmy McPartland - the Wolverines in 1925 and Original Wolverines in 1927 (Jimmy Hartwell, Maury Bercov, Dick Voynow, George Johnson, Vic Moore, Bob Gillette), McKenzie and Condon's Chicago Rhythm Kings in 1927 (Frank Teschemacher, Bud Freeman, Joe Sullivan, Eddie Condon, Jim Lannigan, Gene Krupa) and Benny Goodman and His Boys in 1928 (Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Fud Livingston, Vic Briedis, Dick Morgan, Harry Goodman, Bob Conselman, Ben Pollack) ---

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01:04:00

Savoy Blues - blues and Jazz on Savoy, 1944-46. ....

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2024/04/23

Four sessions featuring different singers with first class jazz accompanists doing a blues repertoire. Albinia Jones (with Dizzy Gillespie, Don Byas, Gene Sedric, Leonard Ware and Sammy Price), Helen Humes (with Herbie Fields, Bobby Stark, Prince Robinson and Leonard Feather), Pleasant Joseph (aka Cousin Joe, with Pete Brown, Leonard Hawkins, Ray Abrams) and Joe Turner (with Pete Johnson, Don Byas, Frankie Newton and Leonard Ware). --- Support this podcast:

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00:57:06

WETF Show - British Trad - Bob Wallis and His...

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2024/04/23

Bob Wallis was a good trumpet player who played in Acker Bilk's first groups before founding his own. These 1957-61 recordings sample the first part of his bandleading career featuring Bilk, Keith "Avo" Avison on trombone, Doug Richmond on clarinet, Hugh Rainey on banjo, Dick Heckstall-Smith on soprano sax, a very young, pre-Cream Ginger Baker on drums and others . . all playing in a solid four beat New Orleans style --- Support this podcast:

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01:07:22

Irving Fazola's Dixielanders - 1944, 45

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2024/04/18

The legendary New Orleans clarinetist returned home in the early 1940's and led bands there until he died in 1949. This group was a regular eight piece group modeled after the Bob Cats and featuring Whimpy Miller, Julian Lane, Steve Giarratano, Pete Laudeman, Bunny Franks and Charlie Dukes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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00:55:53

WETF Show - Erroll Garner with bands!

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2024/04/18

Garner was known primarily as a solo pianist or by working in a trio, but early in his career he played as a sideman with several groups (strange, given that he didn't read music). Here we hear him small groups led by Wardell Gray, Don Byas, Charlie Parker and Lucky Thompson (also with Stuff Smith) and a big band led by Georgie Auld (with Dizzy Gillespie, Trummy Young, Al Cohn and Al Killian). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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01:04:54

Mezz Mezzrow - 1933-37

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2024/04/08

Mezzrow was never a great clarinet player, but certainly was a great character and excelled at surrounding himself with very good musicians. These versions of the Mezz Mezzrow Orchestra and Swing band include Teddy Wilson, Willie The Lion Smith, Sonny White, Frankie Newton, Max Kaminsky, Sy Oliver, J.C. Higginbotham, Floyd O'Brien, Bud Freeman, Benny Carter, Johnny Russell, Happy Caldwell, Pops Foster, Wellman Braud and others--- Support this podcast:

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00:55:35

WETF Show - Pete Brown Quintet/Sextet 1944-5

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2024/04/08

The buoyant alto player known for his 1930's recordings is here presented leading bands in the 1940's that go from swing to bop to rhythm and blues . . records for Savoy and World Transcriptions featuring Jonah Jones and Ed Lewis on trumpets, Zed Jackson and Ray Parker on piano, Al Casey and Bill Moore on electric guitar, Dallas Bartley on bass, Ed Nicholson on drums and others. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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01:03:50

Don Byas Quartet - Fall, 1945

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2024/04/01

The amazingly progressive tenor saxophonist Byas in four quartet sessions featuring slightly different personnel - Erroll Garner, Johnny Guarnieri, Slam Stewart, Al Hall, Eddie Safranski, Sid Catlett, Doc West and J.C. Heard - doing a varied program of standards, blues and originals--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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00:57:15

WETF Show - James P. Johnson Piano Rolls 1917-1927

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2024/04/01

The great Harlem stride pianist Johnson recorded many piano rolls for various companies including QRS, Universal and Perfection, creating an early prototype of the stride style. Here he is featured playing his own compositions as well as interpretations of other tunes from Tin Pan Alley and the black theatre, including one duet with his erstwhile student Fats Waller --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/support

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00:57:48

WETF Show - Johnny Windhurst . .jazz cornet

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2024/03/25

Johnny Windhurst was born in 1926 and by the time he was in his late teens was playing with Eddie Condon and Sidney Bechet. Here is a sampling of his work - informed in equal parts by Bobby Hackett and Louis Armstrong. Sidney Bechet's New Orleans Rhythm Kings (with Pops Foster), Eddie Condon and His Band (with Cutty Cutshall, Ed Hall and Gene Schroeder), Barbara Lea and the Billy Taylor Quintet, Walt Gifford's New Yorkers (with Condon, Eddie Hubble, Dick Cary and Bob Mitchell) and his own

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