Jazz Focus

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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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WETF Show - Early Thelonious - Monk in 1950 and 54
May 03, 2024
Jimmy McPartland - Chicago, 1920's
Apr 30, 2024
Savoy Blues - blues and Jazz on Savoy, 1944-46. . Helen Humes, Joe Turner, Albinia Jones, Cousin Joe
Apr 23, 2024
WETF Show - British Trad - Bob Wallis and His Storyville Jazzmen
Apr 23, 2024
Irving Fazola's Dixielanders - 1944, 45
Apr 18, 2024
WETF Show - Erroll Garner with bands!
Apr 18, 2024
Mezz Mezzrow - 1933-37
Apr 08, 2024
WETF Show - Pete Brown Quintet/Sextet 1944-5
Apr 08, 2024
Don Byas Quartet - Fall, 1945
Apr 01, 2024
WETF Show - James P. Johnson Piano Rolls 1917-1927
Apr 01, 2024
WETF Show - Johnny Windhurst . .jazz cornet
Mar 25, 2024
Bechet and Bocage - Savoy Cafe, Boston 1945
Mar 25, 2024
Wingy Manone - 1934-35
Mar 21, 2024
WETF Show - Oscar Aleman . .1930's and 40's Jazz from France and Argentina
Mar 21, 2024
Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra - 1954-57
Mar 12, 2024
WETF Show - Miff Mole's Little Molers 1927-28
Mar 12, 2024
Terry Waldo's Gutbucket Syncopators 1971, 74
Mar 05, 2024
WETF Show - the Dutch Jazz Orchestra plays Billy Strayhorn
Mar 05, 2024
Southside Chicago Big Bands 1930s - Reuben Reeves, Frankie Half Pint Jaxon, Richard M. Jones
Feb 26, 2024
WETF Show - Wingy Manone and Chu Berry
Feb 26, 2024
West End Jazz Band plays Coon-Sanders
Feb 19, 2024
WETF Show - Ethel Waters, 1938-1939
Feb 19, 2024
Rhapsody at 100 - Jazz takes on Rhapsody in Blue (Ellington, Mingus, Gershin, Whiteman)
Feb 15, 2024
WETF Show - Southside Jazz 2 - Luis Russell, Tiny Parham, Ikey Robinson, Frankie Half Pint Jaxon
Feb 15, 2024
Illinois Stomp - Illinois Jacquet Orchestra 1945
Feb 08, 2024
WETF Show - Chicago to New York, 1929-34
Feb 08, 2024
Southside Jazz 1 - Chicago jazz from 1926-1929
Jan 31, 2024
WETF Show - Illinois Jacquet Orchestra 1947-50
Jan 31, 2024
Rhythm Is His Business - Bud Freeman in the 1930's
Jan 23, 2024
WETF Show - Richard M. Jones . .1927-1929
Jan 23, 2024
Tennessee Tooters - 1924-25 with Red Nicholas, Miff Mole, Harry Reser
Jan 17, 2024
WETF Show - Swing 1946 - Benny Carter, Jonah Jones, Gene "Honeybear" Sedric
Jan 17, 2024
WETF Show - George Lewis with Elmer Talbert 1949-1950
Jan 08, 2024
Benny Carter - 1945, 46
Jan 08, 2024
WETF Show - Tiny Parham with Punch Miller 1928-9
Jan 02, 2024
Northside Chicago Dance Bands of the 1930s - Frankie Trumbauer, Charles Lavere, Jack Teagarden
Dec 26, 2023
WETF Show - This Is Jazz All Stars 9/47 - Wild Bill Davison, Ed Hall, Ralph Sutton
Dec 26, 2023
George Lewis - 1943 Climax Session
Dec 18, 2023
WETF Show - Earl Hines and His Orchestra, 1939-42
Dec 18, 2023
Preston Jackson - 1920's Chicago with Richard M. Jones, Bertha "Chippie" Hill and Luis Russell
Dec 11, 2023
WETF Show - The Small Herds - Bill Harris, Flip Phillips, Sonny Berman
Dec 11, 2023
WETF Show - Teddy Wilson solos 1934-41
Dec 04, 2023
Teddy Wilson Trio, Sextet, Octet - 1940-44
Dec 04, 2023
Flip Phillips - 1944-45
Nov 28, 2023
WETF Show - Archie Semple, British Trad clarinet
Nov 28, 2023
Lovie Austin and Her Blues Serenaders . .Tommy Ladnier, Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds
Nov 21, 2023
WETF Show - Count Basie, January 1956
Nov 21, 2023
Alex Welsh and His Dixielanders - British Trad in the 1950's
Nov 14, 2023
WETF Show - Count Basie Redux . .1959, 60
Nov 14, 2023
Claude Hopkins - 1932-34
Nov 08, 2023
WETF Show - Alex Welsh and his mainstream group in the UK
Nov 08, 2023
Everybody Shuffle - Ben Webster and the big bands, 1934-40
Oct 31, 2023
WETF - Dizzy Gillespie 1951-3 . .Savoy and live recordings
Oct 31, 2023
Earl Hines - small groups and solos 1939-44
Oct 30, 2023
Charlie Barnet 1933-37
Oct 25, 2023
WETf Show - Kenny Clarke and the beboppers - 1946-49
Oct 25, 2023
Crying Sands - Chubby Jackson in the 1940's
Oct 17, 2023
WETF Show - Jonah Jones in the 1930's
Oct 17, 2023
Perry Bradford - blues, jazz and more in the 1920's
Oct 13, 2023
WETF Show - Bob Brookmeyer on World Pacific 1950's
Oct 13, 2023
Harlem Shuffle - more Harlem bands . .Lloyd and Cecil Scott, Leroy Smith, Wooding's Red Caps, Joe Steele
Oct 03, 2023
WETF Show - Lester Young and the KC 7, 1939, 43, 44
Oct 03, 2023
Joe Haymes 1932-33 . .The best band you never heard
Sep 25, 2023
Early British Trad - Middle to late 1940's in London!
Sep 25, 2023
WETF Show - Bobby Hackett 1938-1939
Sep 22, 2023
Roy Eldridge and Zoot Sims - Paris, 1950
Sep 11, 2023
WETF Show - Bud Freeman Trio and a little Eddie Miller
Sep 11, 2023
Chick Webb - 1934!
Sep 07, 2023
WETF Show - Duke Ellington Trio 1953
Sep 07, 2023
WETF Show - James P Johnson solos, 1921-1930
Aug 30, 2023
Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band . . Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart for Decca
Aug 24, 2023
WETF Show - Flute! Wayman Carver and Albert Socarras
Aug 24, 2023
Teddy Grace - great singer of the 1930's with Bud Freeman, Bob Crosby, Jack Teagarden and others
Aug 21, 2023
Early British Trad - George Webb, Freddy Randall, 1943-49
Aug 15, 2023
Bud Freeman's Summa Cum Laude Orchestra 1939-1940
Aug 14, 2023
WETF Show - Fletcher Henderson, 1933
Aug 14, 2023
WETF Show - Bobby Hackett Orchestra 1938-40
Aug 11, 2023
WETF Show - Woody Herman 1949 with Gene Ammons and others
Aug 08, 2023
Six Swingers - 1930's British band featuring Freddy Gardner and other great jazz players
Aug 03, 2023
WETF Show - Benny Goodman and Charlie Christian - mostly live 1940, 1941
Aug 02, 2023
Willie Lewis and His Entertainers with Benny Carter and Bill Coleman 1936
Jul 31, 2023
Benny Goodman Small Groups - live, 1939
Jul 28, 2023
WETF Show - Harlem Bands of the 1920's - Savoy Bearcats, Dave Nelson
Jul 28, 2023
Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra - 1923/24
Jul 18, 2023
WETF Show - Jonah Jones in the 1950's
Jul 18, 2023
WETF Show - James P. Johnson solos
Jul 15, 2023
Spike Hughes - with Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, etc
Jul 10, 2023
WETF Show - Texas Swing . .great bands of the 1930's from Texas . .Bob Dunn, Leon Chappelear, John Boyd
Jul 10, 2023
WETF Show - Woody Herman 1949
Jul 01, 2023
Bill Boyd - Texas Swing 1935-38
Jun 28, 2023
WETF Show - Ted Lewis and the great clarinets!
Jun 28, 2023
Go Harlem - Bingie Madison and His Orchestra with King Oliver, Clarence Williams and James P. Johnson
Jun 26, 2023
WETF Show - Art Pepper Quartet 1956, 1957
Jun 26, 2023
Keynote trumpets - 1946 sessions for Keynote and Signature - Mannie Klein, Shorty Sherock, Jonah Jones, Clyde Hurley
Jun 21, 2023
WETF Show- Keynote Tenors . . sessions for Keynote led by Herbie Haymer, Corky Corcoran, Babe Russin, Ted Nash 1945-6
Jun 20, 2023
New Orleans Brass Bands - Bunk's Brass Band, George Lewis and the Original Zenith Brass Band
Jun 15, 2023
WETF Show - Duke Ellington . . the Blanton/Webster band - live dates and transcriptions
Jun 15, 2023
Texas Jazz - the Light Crust Doughboys and the Wanderers 1935, 36, 38, 40
Jun 06, 2023
WETF Show - Jess Stacy in the 1950's
Jun 06, 2023
Emmett Berry - great unsung trumpet player with Cozy Cole, Walter Thomas, Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas, Ben Webster
May 30, 2023
WETF Show - Count Basie with Lester Young 1943-44
May 30, 2023
Eddie Miller- great tenor sax in the 1970's and 80's
May 23, 2023
WETF Show - Hot Lips Page on Commodore 1941 and 44 . .Chu Berry, Albert Ammons and others
May 23, 2023
Keynote Drummers - Cozy Cole, George Wettling and J.C. Heard sessions for Keynote 1944-5
May 17, 2023
WETF Show - George Masso . . recording for Arbors and Progressive with Al Klink, Dick Johnson, Lou Columbo, Dave McKenna
May 17, 2023
Allan Reuss - swing guitarist . . rhythm and solo 1935-1946 with Benny Goodman, Benny Carter, Charlie Ventura, Paul Whiteman and others
May 10, 2023
WETF Show - Keith Ingham and His Manhattan Swinget and Trio - 1996 and 1999 with Peter Ecklund, Bobby Gordon and Hal Smith
May 10, 2023
Joe Turner - stride piano master!
May 02, 2023
WETF show -Artie Shaw - the great 1938 band on the cusp of success! Live airshots
May 02, 2023
Hot Lips Page - trios and bands 1940-46 . . Chu Berry, Teddy Bunn, Joe Bushkin, J.C. Higginbotham, Pete Johnson
Apr 25, 2023
WETF Show - Count Basie small groups for Clef, 1952 . .Paul Quinichette, Joe Newman, Oscar Peterson
Apr 25, 2023
Johnny Dunn - first cornet king in New York, 1921-23
Apr 17, 2023
WETF Show - Vido Musso . .swing tenor sax with Jess Stacy, Willie Smith and others 1946-58
Apr 17, 2023
Artie Shaw and His Orchestra - 1937 for Thesaurus Transcriptions
Apr 10, 2023
WETF Show - Ivie Anderson with Duke Ellington and others, 1937 and 1946
Apr 10, 2023
First Notes - bands following the example of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Earl Fuller, Louisiana Five 1918-1920
Apr 04, 2023
WETF Show - Claude Luter . . first French Trad Jazz! 1947-49
Apr 04, 2023
First Duke - Ellington's first band recordings . . 1924-26
Mar 27, 2023
WETF Show - Ella Fitzgerald Live in Hollywood, 1961, 1962
Mar 27, 2023
Sun Ra - Jazz from Saturn! 1956-82
Mar 20, 2023
WETF Show - Albert Nicholas and His New Orleans Friends
Mar 20, 2023
Leo Watson - Scat Singer extraordinaire . .with Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa, Jack Teagarden, Vic Dickenson and his own group
Mar 12, 2023
WETF Show - Erskine Hawkins plays the arrangements of Sammy Lowe 1938-42
Mar 12, 2023
WETF Show - Art Tatum 1945
Mar 05, 2023
Count Basie Instrumentalists and Rhythm..1942, 47
Mar 05, 2023
The Jazz Solo - evolution from breaks to blues to real improvisation in the 1920's . .Louis Armstrong, ODJB, Johnny Dunn, Bix, etc
Feb 27, 2023
WETF Show - The Harlem Hamfats . . great 1930's group from Chicago doing blues, jazz and dance music!
Feb 27, 2023
Harry James on Varsity 1940
Feb 21, 2023
WETF Show - World Dixie . . traditional jazz sessions by Muggsy Spanier and Wild Bill Davison in 1943 and 44 for World Transcriptions
Feb 21, 2023
Erskine Hawkins and His 'Bama State Collegians . . 1936-8
Feb 17, 2023
WETF Show - Howard McGhee on Dial . .with Teddy Edwards, Milt Jackson, James Moody, Dodo Marmarosa, etc.
Feb 17, 2023
Miff Mole and His Nicksielanders - 1944 with Pee Wee Russell, Bobby Hackett, Eddie Condon, etc.
Feb 10, 2023
WETF Show - Jimmy Rushing on Vanguard 1953-57
Feb 10, 2023
Frank Chace - Chicago Jazz Revisited! Wild Bill Davison, Dewey Jackson, Dave Remington, Tom Pletcher, Don Ewell, Jim Kweskin
Jan 31, 2023
WETF Show - New York Swing 1992-1993 . .John Bunch and Bucky Pizzarelli
Jan 31, 2023
Unheard saxophone - Rudy Williams . . recording with the Savoy Sultans, Don Byas, Tadd Dameron and Howard McGhee
Jan 23, 2023
WETF show - Midnight in Moscow - Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen for Pye records, 1961-63
Jan 23, 2023
Portena Jazz Band - trad jazz from Argentina!
Jan 16, 2023
WETF Show - Territory Bands from Kansas City area - Walter Page, George E. Lee, Chickasaw Syncopators, Jesse Stone
Jan 16, 2023
Fletcher Henderson - 1925 with Coleman Hawkins, Buster Bailey, Louis Armstrong, Rex Stewart
Jan 12, 2023
WETF Show - Jay McShann and his Orchestra featuring Charlie Parker
Jan 12, 2023
Jimmie Noone - 1931-35 . . last of the Apex Club Orchestra recordings
Jan 04, 2023
WETF Show - Bennie Moten and His Kansas City Orchestra 1926-27
Jan 04, 2023
Early Bebop - Milt Jackson, Howard McGhee and Sonny Stitt 1947-48
Dec 28, 2022
WETF Show - Coleman Hawkins in the 1940's for Keynote and Signature
Dec 28, 2022
Harlan Leonard and His Rockets - Kansas City big band in 1940
Dec 19, 2022
WETF Show - Doc Cook and His Dreamland Orchestra 1924-28
Dec 19, 2022
Lionel Hampton and the Ellingtonians - 1937/8 recordings
Dec 13, 2022
WETF Show - Maxine Sullivan with the Scott Hamilton Quintet in Toyko, 1985, 86
Dec 13, 2022
Annette Hanshaw - the Personality Girl, 1926-28
Dec 05, 2022
WETF Show - Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers 1940/41
Dec 05, 2022
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, 1923-26
Nov 30, 2022
WETF - Louis Jordan . . the first recordings of what became the Tympany Five (1938-41)
Nov 30, 2022
Keynote Instruments - Benny Morton's Trombone Choir, Coleman Hawkins' All Star Sax Ensemble, Little Jazz' Trumpet Ensemble . . 1944
Nov 24, 2022
WETF Show - Claude Thornhill Orchestra, 1947-8 . .with Lee Konitz, Danny Polo, Red Rodney, Barry Galbraith
Nov 24, 2022
Coleman Hawkins Quartets - 1943 and 44 for Signature and Keynote
Nov 17, 2022
WETF Show - Gene Krupa and His Orchestra 1956, 58 Drummin' Man and Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements
Nov 17, 2022
Sidney Bechet 2 - Bechet and the rhythm section - with Willie "the Lion" Smith, Cliff Jackson, Earl Hines, Teddy Bunn and Meade Lux Lewis
Nov 09, 2022
WETF - Charlie Johnson and His Orchestra . . 1925-28
Nov 09, 2022
Earl Hines in France - 1949, with Barney Bigard, Buck Clayton, Arvell Shaw, Wallace Bishop
Nov 01, 2022
WETF Show - The Capitol recording of Sharkey Bonano - New Orleans trumpeter's recording from 1949-53
Nov 01, 2022
Freddie Keppard - great New Orleans cornet player in Chicago, 1923-29
Oct 25, 2022
WETF Show - Joe Davis records . .mid 1940's featuring Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Thelonious Monk a.o.
Oct 25, 2022
Ornette Coleman - first albums! 1958 and 1959
Oct 18, 2022
Sidney Bechet - 1940/41 with Charlie Shavers, Rex Stewart, Earl HInes and Willie "The Lion" Smith
Oct 18, 2022
Johnny Dodds - 1927
Oct 12, 2022
WETF Show - Miles on the side - Miles Davis recording as a sideman in the 1950's with Lee Konitz, Al Cohn and Cannonball Adderley
Oct 12, 2022
WETF Show - Leo Parker! 1954 and 61 . . great late bop and hard bop sessions
Oct 06, 2022
WETF Show - Ellington and others . . The 1929-31 version of Duke Ellington's Cotton Club band in their recordings of non-Ellington tunes!
Oct 06, 2022
Thomas Morris - New York trumpet player in the 1920's
Sep 27, 2022
WETF Show - Benny Goodman on the side . . 1929-31 sideman recordings before he became the King Of Swing
Sep 27, 2022
Nat Gonella .. The British Louis! 1931-34 sides for Decca with Don Barrigo, Ernest Ritte, Garland Wilson and Al Bowlly
Sep 19, 2022
WETF Show - Mainstream Jazz! Recorded for Vanguard - the Vic Dickenson and Mel Powell Septets in 1945, 55
Sep 19, 2022
New Music of Reginald Foresythe - original music by a true original - with Benny Goodman, Toots Mondello, Gene Krupa, etc.
Sep 13, 2022
WETF Show - Mel Powell Trio, Quartet and Quintet on Vanguard (with Ruby Braff and Paul Quinichette)
Sep 13, 2022
WETF Show - Black and White keys . . recordings featuring pianists recorded for the Black and White label in the early and mid 1940's.
Sep 10, 2022
Ben Webster in the 1940's - recordings with Benny Carter, Tony Scott, Al Hall and Teddy Wilson
Sep 05, 2022
Bebop Clarinets - Hank D'Amico, Aaron Sachs, Tony Scott and Buddy DeFranco
Sep 01, 2022
WETF Show - the Basie Bunch . .1957 recordings for Vanguard featuring Buck Clayton, Lucky Thompson, Vic Dickenson, Jo Jones a.o.
Sep 01, 2022
The Little Ramblers - small group recordings from the California Ramblers featuring Adrian Rollini
Aug 22, 2022
WETF Show -underrated tenor saxophonist Lucky Thompson guesting with various bands in the 1940's and 1950's
Aug 22, 2022
New York to New Orleans - Dixieland in 1941, 44, 45 featuring Bujie Centobie on clarinet
Aug 15, 2022
WETF Show - Fats on the Side - Fats Waller guesting with various groups 1926-31
Aug 15, 2022
Black and White reeds - Pee Wee Russell, Mezz Mezzrow, Bingie Madison and Rod Cless on the Black and White label
Aug 12, 2022
WETF Show - The Retrogressive . . Bob Brookmeyer's albums Traditionalism Revisited and Kansas City Revisited from 1958 and 1959
Aug 12, 2022
Freshman Hop - Jack Pettis and his Pets . .1926-29
Aug 02, 2022
WETF Show - Rosemary Clooney on Concord, 1988-93
Aug 02, 2022
Swingin' In The Key of Slim - Slim Gaillard's jazz recordings 1939-40
Jul 27, 2022
WETF Show - Wingy Manone in the 1930's - George Brunies, Santo Pecora, Eddie iller, Sidney Arodin . . .
Jul 27, 2022
Swing, Mr. Bunny- Bunny Berigan's 1936 records with Forrest Crawford
Jul 22, 2022
WETF Show - Venuti and Lang with vocalists! featuring Adrian Rollini, Jimmy Dorsey and others
Jul 22, 2022
Lucky Day - Lucky Thompson's first recordings . .Dodo Marmarosa, Benny Carter, Freddie Green, J.J. Johnson
Jul 15, 2022
WETF show - Stompin' Around . .1935 radio transcriptions of the Casa Loma Orchestra!
Jul 15, 2022
Red McKenzie and the Mound City Blue Blowers
Jul 05, 2022
WETF Show - Art Farmer in Europe
Jul 05, 2022
Eddie Lang - Eddie's Twister
Jun 27, 2022
WETF Show on Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone's records for Decca in 1937 and 1938
Jun 27, 2022
WETF Show - Dick Johnson . . great Boston alto player with Dave McKenna, Wilbur Ware and Philly Jo Jones
Jun 21, 2022
WETF Show - Ella and Louis Again and Again - 1950's albums with the Oscar Peterson Quartet
Jun 21, 2022
Edmond Hall with the Ralph Sutton Quartet - 1954 studio sessions and Club Hangover Broadcasts
Jun 16, 2022
WETF Show - Classic Jazz Quartet - Sudhalter, Muryani, Wellstood, Grosz in the 1980's
Jun 16, 2022
Rhythm Wreckers - Dixieland, Swing and Western Swing with Ben Pollack, Harry James, Muggsy Spanier and Irving Fazola
Jun 09, 2022
WETF Show - Phil Woods and the Big Bands! with Benny Goodman, Quincy Jones, Jay McShann, others
Jun 09, 2022
WETF Show - Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra - first recordings (live and studio) in 1939
Jun 01, 2022
WETF Show - Paul Howard . .1929 and 1930 recordings of a great black big band from California (with Lionel Hampton and Lawrence Brown)
Jun 01, 2022
Syncopated Yodelin' Man - overcome your prejudices! Roy Evans, Jimmie Rodgers and Emmett Miller with jazz accompaniment
May 23, 2022
Saratoga Shout - The great Luis Russell band from 1929-30 with Red Allen, J.C Higginbotham and others!
May 23, 2022
WETF Show - Smoky Mary . .1970's recordings from New Orleans by Percy Humphrey, Sweet Emma Barrett and other Preservations Hall musicians
May 16, 2022
Eddie South Transcription recordings - 1933
May 16, 2022
Art Hodes on Blue Note - 1940's trad
May 08, 2022
WETF Show - Two Brothers - Cannonball and Nat Adderley
May 03, 2022
California Swing - Mosby's Blue Blowers and Henry Starr
May 01, 2022
Sidney Bechet in Paris 1949, 52 and 57 . . all sessions featuring Bechet on soprano as the only horn
Apr 26, 2022
WETF Show Swedish Jazz - recordings made in Sweden by jazz players influenced by late swing and early bop musicians 1950's
Apr 26, 2022
Woodlore - Phil Woods' first recordings! 1954-57
Apr 19, 2022
WETF Show - Jack Teagarden Sextet - recordings for Period and Decca in the mid 1950's with Jimmy McPartland, Kenny Davern, Ed Hall, etc.
Apr 19, 2022
Echoes of Ellington - the Chris Barber Jazz and Blues Band with Russell Procope and Wild Bill Davis 1976
Apr 13, 2022
WETF Show - Eddie South - the "Dark Angel of the Violin" in some 1940's studio and live recordings
Apr 13, 2022
Jim Cullum Sr - Traditional Jazz from San Antonio!
Apr 03, 2022
WETF Show - Mills Blue Rhythm Band 1934-36 with Red Allen, JC Higginbotham, Joe Garland and others
Apr 03, 2022
Freddy Gardner - great English saxophone player of the 1930's and 40's
Mar 31, 2022
WETF Show - James Moody and Art Blakey in 1947-48 . . Cool meets Bop
Mar 31, 2022
WETF Show - Dick Wellstood live from the Sticky Wicket in 1988
Mar 21, 2022
European Bari . . baritone sax players in Europe in the 1950's .. Lars Gullin, William Boucaya, Harry Klein
Mar 21, 2022
WETF Show - Count Basie ..The Count Steps In - 1937-38 live recordings with Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Jimmy Rushing, etc.
Mar 14, 2022
Bebop Clarinet in Europe - Maurice Meunier, Hubert Rostaing, Arne Domnerus and Vic Ash
Mar 14, 2022
WETF Show - May, 1927. So you think you had a busy week? Listen to the product of one week in May, 1927 . .Louis, Bix, Henderson, Red Nichols, etc.
Mar 08, 2022
So Far So Good - a selection of the Columbia recordings of Will Bradley and His Orchestra with Ray McKinley
Mar 08, 2022
Ride, Red, Ride . . recordings by Henry "Red" Allen in the 1950's with Coleman Hawkins and others
Mar 04, 2022
Hollywood Stomp - Victoria Spivey in the 1930's with Red Allen, Charlie Holmes, Arnett Nelson, Lee Collins . .
Mar 04, 2022
WETF Program - Stan Getz' West Coast Sessions . . 1955, 56
Feb 23, 2022
Blue Rhythm - the Mills Blue Rhythm Band 1931-33
Feb 22, 2022
Texas Shuffle - live and studio recordings of Count Basie's Orchestra featuring Herschel Evans, 1937-38
Feb 15, 2022
WETF Show - Hot Fingers - Lonnie Johnson with the stars - 1925-29
Feb 15, 2022
Market Street Stomp - Hot bands of St. Louis- Charlie Creath, Dewey Jackson, Bennie Washington
Feb 08, 2022
WETF Show - Southside Strut . . The Good Time Jazz trio and quartets of Don Ewell
Feb 08, 2022
My Home Is In A Southern Town - the General recordings of Jelly Roll Morton's Hot Six and Seven, 1940 .
Feb 04, 2022
Songs We Taught Your Mother - Victoria Spivey, Alberta Hunter and Lucille Hegamin in 1960
Jan 26, 2022
WETF Show Two To Tango - Oscar Peterson with the singers ..Ella, Louis, Fred Astaire and Lester Young (!)
Jan 26, 2022
Shadowland Blues - recordings made in Texas during the 1920's by Troy Floyd, Fatty Martin and Leroy's Dallas Band
Jan 19, 2022
WETF Show - Play Mutt Carey - 1920's and 40's recordings featuring the New Orleans cornet stylist
Jan 18, 2022
Suitcase Blues - George, Hociel, Hersal Thomas and Sippie Wallace - blues singing and piano
Jan 15, 2022
WETF Show - Bouncing With Bud - Bud Powell recordings for Blue Note 1949, 51, 53
Jan 15, 2022
Hilarity Rag - The Red Back Book of Rags
Jan 07, 2022
Tell 'Em 'Bout Me . . .Ethel Waters Columbia recordings 1925-28
Jan 07, 2022
WETF Show - Bill Dodge, aka Benny Goodman
Jan 01, 2022
WETF Show - Bubber Miley
Dec 31, 2021
WETF Show - Oscar Peterson and the Tenor Saxes
Dec 17, 2021
Brit Bop II - WETF Show featuring the music of Ronnie Scott
Dec 10, 2021
Louis Armstrong Autobiography 1956
Dec 09, 2021
WETF Show . .More Further Definitions - Benny Carter-led and arranged sax ensemble 1960's
Nov 30, 2021
Dorsey Stomp . . transcriptions in January, 1934 by the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra and then in September, 1934 by the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
Nov 30, 2021
Sonny Clay - West Coast Jazz of the 1920's
Nov 23, 2021
WETF Show - Battle of the Saxes - Harry Carney with groups not led by Duke Ellington in the 1940's
Nov 23, 2021
Early Humph - the first (pre-Parlophone) recordings by Humphrey Lyttelton 1948/9
Nov 16, 2021
WETF Show Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra - big band studio recordings 1939
Nov 16, 2021
WETF Show - Sliphorn Outing - some of the sides recorded featuring the great Benny Morton on trombone . .1934-44
Nov 11, 2021
Foot Scuffle - the legendary Joseph Robichaux and His New Orleans Rhythm Boys sessions of 1933
Nov 11, 2021
BritTrad 1 - Sandy Brown and His Jazz Band ..1955/56 for Tempo Records
Nov 02, 2021
WETF Show - James P Johnson and the blues singers
Nov 02, 2021
WETF Show - Barrelhouse Blues - band sides including Kansas City Frank Melrose in the late 1920's
Oct 29, 2021
Delayed Action - the first recordings of George Shearing . . Decca 1939-47
Oct 21, 2021
WETF Show - Benny Sent Me - the Benny Goodman Quartet (and Trio) featuring Dave Tough
Oct 21, 2021
WETF Show - Solo Hop - early Glenn Miller arrangements for the Dorsey Brothers and Ray Noble
Oct 15, 2021
Wild Women - the music of Ida Cox...the "Uncrowned Queen of the Blues"
Oct 15, 2021
Sold American - first Glenn Miller Orchestra recordings 1937-1938
Oct 07, 2021
WETF Show - Speculation - the Teddy Wilson Quintet and the All Star Sextet, 1944-45
Oct 07, 2021
Tuxedo Stomp - State Street Ramblers II . .great hot jazz from the Southside of Chicago, 1928!
Sep 28, 2021
Straight Life - two Contemporary albums from the late 1950's by Art Pepper - Plus Eleven and Meets The Rhythm Section .
Sep 28, 2021
WETF show . . Fats Waller - the instrumental sides recorded for Bluebird in the 1930's
Sep 22, 2021
Earl Hines and Muggsy Spanier - the great band led by two Chicago stalwarts in the late 1950's
Sep 22, 2021
Percolatin' Blues - Lem Fowler - little known and largely forgotten pianist and composer of the 1920's
Sep 16, 2021
WETF Show - The Rampart Street Paraders . . great West Coast trad led and arranged by Matty Matlock
Sep 16, 2021
State Street Ramblers . .Barrelhouse Stomp... hot jazz and blues from Chicago, 1931, 32
Sep 07, 2021
WETF Show - Edgar Hayes and His Orchestra . .Manhattan Jam . .1938-39 big band recordings
Sep 07, 2021
Bix and His Gang . . all the recordings by Bix Beiderbecke with his gang and with Bix and His Rhythm Jugglers
Sep 01, 2021
WETF Show Lady Who Swings The Band . . Mary Lou Williams band sides in the 1940's
Aug 31, 2021
Teddy Wilson and Edmund Hall . . superb chamber jazz recordings from the early to mid 1940's
Aug 27, 2021
WETF Show - a Prince of a Fellow . . 1926-45 recordings of unsung reedman Prince Robinson
Aug 27, 2021
The Other Smith (one of them, anyway) - Clara Smith in the 1920's
Aug 20, 2021
WETF Show - In The Middle - Transition recordings with Bebop and Swing musicians (1938-1945)
Aug 20, 2021
WETF Show - Clarence Williams Jugs and Washboards - 1930's.
Aug 12, 2021
Mingus Fingers . . early (1945-49) recordings by various Charles Mingus groups on the West Coast
Aug 12, 2021
Jack Teagarden and Pete Fountain - not together, but with big band backing! 1960 . .
Aug 03, 2021
WETF Show . . Milt Jackson and Thelonious Monk for Blue Note . .1947, 52. .
Aug 03, 2021
Clarence Williams - Big(ger) Band . .1933-37
Jul 26, 2021
James Dapgny's Chicago Jazz Band - with Jon Erik Kellso, Kim Cusack, Wayne Jones and others
Jul 26, 2021
Chuberry Jam - Chu Berry and Roy Eldridge
Jul 23, 2021
WETF - two sides of trad - Paul Barbarin/Eddie Condon on Atlantic
Jul 23, 2021
Spud Murphy - swing arrangements for Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Joe Haymes and others
Jul 16, 2021
WETF Show - Chu Berry! Sides for Commodore and Varsity with Hot Lips Page
Jul 16, 2021
Bing, Oh Where Can You Be . . early recordings of Bing Crosby with various bands and his first solo sessions (1927-33)
Jul 07, 2021
WETF Show Red's Jump . . .Swing/Bop/R&B sides by Red Allen with his terrific little band in 1944-47
Jul 07, 2021
Pete's Housewarming Blues . . the great boogie woogie pianist Pete Johnson's band recordings of 1939 and 44
Jun 28, 2021
WETF Show - Daughters of the Stride II . .featuring Lil Hardin Armstrong and Ramona Davies
Jun 28, 2021
Eccentric - Max Kaminsky's 1944 band with Rod Cless, James P. Johnson and Willie "The Lion" Smith
Jun 26, 2021
WETF Show - Thelonious . .Monk's first band recordings 1947-52
Jun 26, 2021
Feeling a Draft - Roy Eldridge and Oscar Peterson 1953/4 for Norman Granz
Jun 15, 2021
WETF Show - The Trumpeter's Prayer - King Oliver and His Orchestra, 1929-30
Jun 14, 2021
Christopher Columbus - The Fletcher Henderson band at the Grand Terrace in Chicago, 1936-38
Jun 09, 2021
Pardon Me, Pretty Baby - Coleman Hawkins in Europe, 1937-38
Jun 09, 2021
Barrelhouse piano - Art Hodes, George Zack, Tut Soper
Jun 02, 2021
Jazz Band Ball - Art Hodes and Rod Cless in the 1940's
Jun 02, 2021
Clifford Brown on the West Coast - Pacific Jazz Records from 1954
May 27, 2021
We Don't Know From Nothin' - Don Redman and His Orchestra, 1936-37
May 27, 2021
Wonderful World - Bobby Hackett and Bob Theile in the 1970's
May 18, 2021
WETF Show - Late Django! with Stephane Grappelli . ..1949/50
May 18, 2021
Daughters of the Stride 1 . . two great pianists in the 1930's- Una Mae Carlisle and Cleo Brown
May 12, 2021
WETF Show - Profit by His Example . .Tatum's favorite pianist Clarence Profit
May 12, 2021
WETF Show Carney-val . .Small group sessions in 1944 and 45 with Harry Carney
May 07, 2021
Shout Sister - Tiny Bradshaw and Willie Bryant . .great Harlem bands of the 1930's
May 06, 2021
Allez Oop - Kansas City Six live and rehearsal plus guests - Buck Clayton, Lester Young, Basie, etc
Apr 27, 2021
I Was Doing All Right - Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight . . small group from the Chick Webb band
Apr 27, 2021
Milton's Boogie - Roy Milton and His Solid Senders . .great late swing and blues
Apr 27, 2021
Honoris Causa - For the sake of Marty Grosz . . 1957-61 recordings done in Chicago
Apr 23, 2021
Johnny Hodges - the sideman in the 1940's
Apr 23, 2021
WETF Show - In Harlem's Araby . . black bands from the smaller NYC clubs in the 1920's
Apr 23, 2021
Four Boys and A Guitar - the Mills Brothers in the 1930's
Apr 15, 2021
Have It Ready - Fletcher Henderson and The Dixie Stompers
Apr 15, 2021
WETF Show - Wilbur DeParis' New New Orleans Jazz Band . .original tunes!
Apr 15, 2021
WPA Rag - great 1930's/40's blues and Jazz from Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red
Apr 08, 2021
Joe Thomas - great trumpet in the 1940's
Apr 08, 2021
WETF Program - Paul Ricci . .Unheard Swing Clarinet!
Apr 08, 2021
Juba Dance - Omer Simeon in the 1940's and 50's
Apr 01, 2021
Sidney Bechet live - the John Reid recordings
Apr 01, 2021
WETF show - For Dancers Only - the Sy Oliver arrangements for Jimmie Lunceford
Apr 01, 2021
WETF Show Here's Your Change - Toots Mondello! Lead alto and soloist
Mar 24, 2021
Business in Q - Archie Bleyer 2
Mar 24, 2021
Ragtime to Stride - James P. Johnson piano rolls 1917-1924
Mar 24, 2021
Django and American Friends . .1930's recordings from Paris
Mar 16, 2021
WETF Show - Business in F - the arrangements of Archie Bleyer
Mar 16, 2021
Horn of Plenty - Peter Ecklund
Mar 16, 2021
Stratosphere - 1934-38 Jimmie Lunceford band
Mar 09, 2021
WETF Show - Never Too Much . .Coleman Hawkins Quintet in 1945
Mar 09, 2021
Zaggin' With Zig - The Ziggy Elman Orchestra Bluebird sides from 1938-39
Mar 02, 2021
WETF Show In A Jam - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra recording for Capitol Transcriptions in 1946 and 1947
Mar 02, 2021
Guitar In High - Teddy Bunn in 1938-40
Mar 02, 2021
Old Bottles, Older Wine - Gil Evans in 1958 and 59 for Pacific Records
Feb 25, 2021
Depression Stomp - WETF Show Washboard Rhythm Kings
Feb 25, 2021
Funny Business - the Joel Shaw Orchestra 1932 . .Hot Dance band!
Feb 25, 2021
WETF Show - Benny Goodman in 1945/6
Feb 19, 2021
Swingin' Minstrel - the vocals of Clancy Hayes with a variety of trad jazz stars
Feb 19, 2021
Clarinet Marmalade - Edmond Hall on Commodore
Feb 19, 2021
Louis in Transition - Louis Armstrong 1947
Feb 10, 2021
WETF show - Clarinet Spice
Feb 10, 2021
Chasing the Blues Away - Orchestras of Claude Hopkins and Chick Webb 1935/6
Feb 03, 2021
Reunion - Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker 1957 along with some unreleased sides
Feb 03, 2021
A Side Of Cole . . Nat King Cole with Lester Young, Lionel Hampton and Dexter Gordon
Feb 03, 2021
WETF Show - Mardi Gras with Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band 1944-5
Jan 28, 2021
Teddy's Boogie - Teddy Powell and His Orchestra
Jan 28, 2021
A Smile Will Go A Long Long Way - Sterling Bose, 1935
Jan 28, 2021
New Moten Stomp - Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra from October, 1930
Jan 19, 2021
Who Can Your Regular Be - The Arcadian Serenaders . . Great hot dance band from St. Louis in 1924/5
Jan 19, 2021
WETF Show The Willies - 1940's and 50's small group sessions by the remarkable alto saxist Willie Smith
Jan 19, 2021
Back Beat Boogie - Harry James "New" Jazz Band of 1956
Jan 13, 2021
WETF Show - Just You, Just Eddie Heywood
Jan 13, 2021
Tap Room Swing - New Orleans Clarinetist Albert Nicholas in the 1930s
Jan 05, 2021
Unnaccustomed as They Were - great jazz musicians playing different instruments
Jan 05, 2021
Tony Scott and the All-Stars - a salute to 52nd Street
Jan 05, 2021
Franz Jackson's Original Jass All-Stars
Dec 31, 2020
Swing It - Louis Prima and Pee Wee Russell
Dec 31, 2020
WETF show - A Side of Coleman . . Coleman Hawkins the sideman 1929-31
Dec 24, 2020
Stan Getz Along
Dec 24, 2020
Midge Williams . . .Jazz Singer of the 1930's
Dec 24, 2020
Hot Clarinets of New Orleans
Dec 18, 2020
Hot Trumpets of New Orleans
Dec 18, 2020
WETF Show - The Dawn of Swing . . 1933-35 small bands
Dec 18, 2020
Punch Miller in 1920's Chicago
Dec 08, 2020
WETF - Charlie Parker the sideman
Dec 08, 2020
Eubie! 1969 and 1971 recordings by Eubie Blake
Dec 01, 2020
WETF Broadcast - Jazz is Where You Find It II - Australia and Swaggie records!
Dec 01, 2020
Hot Trumpets - trumpet and rhythm from the 20's through the 40's
Dec 01, 2020
Lighter Than A Feather - Red Norvo at the Hickory House, 1936
Nov 25, 2020
WETF Show - The Blues Revival in the 1930's
Nov 25, 2020
Keep A Song In Your Soul - the first recordings of Benny Carter
Nov 24, 2020
Keith Ingham New York 9
Nov 17, 2020
Jelly Roll Morton the sideman
Nov 17, 2020
JJ Johnson - first Bebop trombone sessions
Nov 17, 2020
Pic-A-Rib with Ben Pollack
Nov 15, 2020
You'se A Viper - Stuff Smith and His Onyx Club Boys
Nov 15, 2020
When Lights Are Low - Benny Carter in Europe
Nov 06, 2020
Jimmy Harrison - Somebody Loves Me
Nov 06, 2020
WETF - Clyde Hart . .pianist with Eddie Condon, Tiny Grimes, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Ben Webster and Charlie Shavers
Nov 06, 2020
WETF Show - Breathless Blues . .The King Jazz Story with Sidney Bechet and Mezz Mezzrow
Oct 29, 2020
Wood Chip Blues - Smoky Wood . . Western Swing pianist
Oct 29, 2020
Bughouse - 1933-5 Jazz Sides by Red Norvo
Oct 28, 2020
Jazz is Where You Find It - West Indies Blues
Oct 25, 2020
Lookie, Lookie, Lookie, Here Comes Teddy Hill
Oct 25, 2020
Sidney Bechet in the 30's
Oct 16, 2020
Benny Goodman the Sideman - 1930's/40's
Oct 16, 2020
Johnny Hodges - 1961
Oct 16, 2020
Sunset of Swing - recordings for Sunset, 1945 . .Willie Smith, Andre Previn, etc
Oct 10, 2020
WETF - Basie's "Other" Tenor Sax . .Herschel Evans
Oct 10, 2020
Hot Clarinets - New York in the 1920's
Oct 10, 2020
Got No Time - Jane Green and 1920's pop singing
Oct 02, 2020
Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald - Live in 1939 and 1940!
Oct 02, 2020
Jazz from Australia - Lazy Ade Monsbourgh
Oct 02, 2020
WETF Show - Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt Septet and Octet from 1950/51
Oct 02, 2020
Boston Bari - Serge Chaloff's Boston groups 1949, 54, 55
Sep 22, 2020
Hot Chicago Clarinets
Sep 22, 2020
Dizzy Gillespie at the Spotlite, 1946
Sep 22, 2020
Swing team - Frankie Newton and Pete Brown
Sep 22, 2020
God Is In The Band - Art Tatum in the rhythm section
Sep 08, 2020
WETF Show - New Orleans - 1927
Sep 08, 2020
Duke Ellington Cover Bands!
Sep 08, 2020
The Count Basie Octet - 1950/1951
Sep 02, 2020
Edmund Hall - Profoundly Blue!
Aug 31, 2020
Turk Murphy in Concord, MA - May, 1968
Aug 25, 2020
Pete Brown - Jazz sessions in the 1930's
Aug 25, 2020
WETF - Manhattan Masters - recordings done by Muggsy Spanier and the Nick's house band in 1945!
Aug 24, 2020
WETF - Mildred Bailey "Mrs. Swing"
Aug 18, 2020
New Orleans - 1924 & 1925
Aug 18, 2020
The Earl Hines Orchestra - Decca, 1934/5
Aug 15, 2020
WETF - The Big Four . . .Jazz Quartets
Aug 15, 2020
The Rhythmic Eight - small group Jazz from England 1927-30
Aug 05, 2020
WETF Show - Knocky Parker
Aug 05, 2020
Roy Eldridge - airchecks and transcriptions
Jul 29, 2020
John Kirby Sextet
Jul 29, 2020
Herman Chittison - stride piano and much more
Jul 29, 2020
The LIght Crust Doughboys are on the air!
Jul 23, 2020
WETF - TNT
Jul 23, 2020
The Rhythmakers - 1932 sessions
Jul 17, 2020
Joe Thomas - Swing Trumpet
Jul 17, 2020
Dicky Wells - France, July 1937
Jul 11, 2020
Ray Noble and His New Mayfair Orchestra featuring Al Bowlly
Jul 07, 2020
WETF - Hoagy Carmichael - the first recordings
Jun 30, 2020
WETF - Fats Navarro
Jun 30, 2020
WETF - Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra, 1934
Jun 30, 2020
Clarence Williams and King Oliver
Jun 21, 2020
WETF - Chicago
Jun 12, 2020
WETF - New Orleans
Jun 12, 2020
WETF - Kansas City Jazz
Jun 12, 2020
WETF - Reuben "River" Reeves
Jun 05, 2020
WETF - Jimmy Rushing in the 1950's
Jun 05, 2020
WETF - Milton Brown and His Brownies
Jun 05, 2020
Pee Wee Russell
Jun 01, 2020
Big Joe Turner - Jazz and Blues from Kansas City
May 28, 2020
Kid Ory and Henry "Red" Allen - live and in studio 1959
May 21, 2020
Bob Wills - King of Western Swing!
May 11, 2020
Omer Simeon - unheralded New Orleans and Chicago clarinet
Apr 22, 2020
Hilton Jefferson - great lead and solo alto sax
Apr 09, 2020
Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven - radio transcriptions
Apr 09, 2020
Maggie Jones - Classic Blues singer
Apr 09, 2020
Anachronic Jazz Band . . Traditional Jazz from France
Apr 09, 2020
Mary Lou Williams first recordings - 1927-1929
Apr 09, 2020
Dizzy Gillespie in 1945-46 . .as leader without Charlie Parker
Apr 09, 2020
Bessie Smith and James P. Johnson
Apr 02, 2020
Fletcher Henderson All Stars - The Big Reunion Podcast
Apr 02, 2020
Roy Newman and His Boys Podcast
Apr 02, 2020
Gold Coast Jazz Band Podcast
Apr 02, 2020