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Jazz Focus

May 27 2024 36
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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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Wingy Manone in the 1920's

May 27 2024 70 mins  
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 Ben

WETF Show - Frank Assunto and Herb Ellis, 1962

May 27 2024 57 mins  
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 Lodi

Mezzrow and Ladnier - 1938/9 and 1959

May 21 2024 63 mins  
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

WETF Show - Don Byas 1946

May 21 2024 54 mins  
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

Le Rois Du Fox-Trot - Jean Pierre Morel, Hot Dance in the 21st Century

May 14 2024 68 mins  
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:

WETF Show - Side of Monk

May 14 2024 54 mins  
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

Bill Coleman in Paris - 1935-38

May 07 2024 60 mins  
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,

WETF Show - Frank Teschemacher

May 07 2024 55 mins  
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'

WETF Show - Early Thelonious - Monk in 1950 and 54

May 03 2024 57 mins  
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

Jimmy McPartland - Chicago, 1920's

Apr 29 2024 65 mins  
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