Jazz Focus

jazzbnd
  • 5.0 (2)
  • MUSIC HISTORY

Exploring the highways and byways of Classic Recorded Jazz - from the Ragtime era to the day before yesterday!

  1. 1D AGO

    Art Hodes and Sidney Bechet - Blue Note 1944, 45, 49

    Three sessions all featuring Art Hodes, with Bechet on two . . the Art Hodes Blue Five with Max Kaminsky (tpt), Mezz Mezzrow (clt), Pops Foster (sb) and Danny Alvin (drums), the Hodes Hot Five with Wild Bill Davison (c), Sidney Bechet (clarinet and soprano sax), Foster and Freddie Moore (d) and the Sidney Bechet Blue Note Jazz Men with Davison, Hodes, Walter Page (sb) and Moore.  Terrific New Orleans-Chicago-New York dixieland!

    1h 10m

  2. 1D AGO

    Show - Pee Wee Russell and Bud Freeman on Swingville, 1960

    Uncharacteristic sessions from two musicians unfairly pigeon-holed as dixielanders . . here playing superb mainstream Jazz with much more modern-sounding rhythm sections . .Russell's clarinet is heard with Buck Clayton (trumpet), Tommy Flanagan (piano), Wendell Marshall (bass), J.C. Heard (drums) and Freeman is on tenor with Shorty Baker (trumpet), Claude Hopkins (piano), George Duvivier (bass) and Heard.

    59 min

  3. 6D AGO

    Rex Stewart 1947

    Rex Stewart and His Orchestra - a septet of fine musicians touring France, Sweden and Germany in late 1947 through 1948.  Great arrangments fo swing tunes, novelties, some dixieland and even some bebop with Stewart, Sandy Williams (tbn), John Harris (clt and alto), Vernon Story (tenor), Don Gais (p), Fred Emelin and Ladislas Czabanyck (bass), Ted Curry (drums) and Stewart and Honey Johnson on vocals

    1h 4m

  4. 6D AGO

    Show - Bunk Johnson in San Francisco, 1943-4

    Some of the New Orleans trumpet player's first recordings after being rediscovered . . with Kid Ory's band (Mutt Carey on cornet, Kid Ory on trombone, Wade Whaley on clarinet, Buster Wilson on piano, Frank Pasley on guitar), Ed Garland on bass, Everett Walsh on drums), Lu Watters Yerba Buena band (Watters on trumpet, Turk Murphy on trombone, Ellis Horne on clarinet Burt Bales on piano, Pat Patton on banjo, Squire Girsback on bass, Clancy Hayes on drums and vocal, Sister Lottie Peavey on vocals) and his own group recording for World Transcriptions (Floyd O'Brien on trombone, Whaley, Fred Washington on piano, Pasley, Red Callender on bass and Lee Young on drums)

    58 min

  5. DEC 9

    Clarence Williams - Dixie Washboard Band 1927-29

    Clarence Williams records not released under his name . . The Dixie Washboard Band, Bluegrass Feet Warmers and Seven Gallon Jug Band.  .featuring Ed Allen, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Buster Bailey, Carmelo Jari, Cyrus St. Clair, Floyd Casey, Benny Moten, Jasper Taylor, Arville Harris and others!

    1h 4m

  6. DEC 9

    Show - Buddy Tate on Swingville, 1960

    Three great mainstream sessions featuring the great Texas/Basie tenor sound of Buddy Tate (and clarinet on one number) with Claude Hopkins and Tommy Flanagan on piano, Emmett Berry, Joe Thomas and Clark Terry on trumpets, Wendell Marshall and Larry Gales on bass, J.C. Heard, Osie Johnson and Art Taylor on drums

    59 min

  7. DEC 2

    Clarence Williams - 1925-27

    Great small group sides made by the New Orleans pianist and entrepreneur Williams featuring many great black Jazz players of the day including Bubber Miley, Ed Allen, Tommy Ladnier and Louis Metcalf (trumpet), Joe Nanton and Charlie Irvis (trombone), Arville Harris, Ben Whitted, Don Redman, Buster Bailey and Coleman Hawkins (reeds), Leroy Harris and Buddy Christian (banjo), Cyrus St. Clair (tuba) and Floyd Casey (drums) with Eva Taylor and Kathleen Henderson on vocals

    1h 9m

  8. DEC 2

    Show - Original Salty Dogs 1964, 66, 69

    Drawn from three albums for Delmark and GHB, these records capture this classic trad band at its peak . . originating as a campus band at Purdue in the late 1940's, the Salty Dogs became the Original Salty Dogs by the mid 1950's and were one of the top two or three groups in the genre for decades.  Here, Lew Green (cornet), Jim Snyder (trombone), Kim Cusack (clarinet and alto), John Cooper (piano), Bob Sundstrom (banjo and vocals), Mike Walbridge (tuba) and Wayne Jones (drums) show how to reinterpret classic jazz.  On two tracks Clancy Hayes plays banjo!

    59 min
See All (100)

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
2 Ratings

About

Exploring the highways and byways of Classic Recorded Jazz - from the Ragtime era to the day before yesterday!

Information

  • Creator
    jazzbnd
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2024 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Jazz Focus

You Might Also Like