Jazz Focus

Fats on the Side - Fats Waller the sideman recording with Jack Teagarden, Ted Lewis, the Rhythmakers, Fletcher Henderson and Red McKenzie . .featuring Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Sterling Bose, Pee Wee Russell, Tommy Ladnier, Buster Bailey, Joe Smith, Red Allen, Billy Banks and others!  Small group and big band jazz from 1926-33.

Black and White reeds - Pee Wee Russell, Mezz Mezzrow, Bingie Madison and Rod Cless on the Black and White label . .mid 1940's recordings with Sterling Bose, George Wettling, Bob Casey, Joe Grauso, Hank Duncan, Cliff Jackson, Gene Schroeder and James P. Johnson

The Retrogressive . . Bob Brookmeyer's albums Traditionalism Revisited and Kansas City Revisited from 1958 and 1959, featuring tunes associated with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Bix Beiderbecke, Jelly Roll Morton, Count Basie and Billie Holiday . .with Jimmy Giuffre, Jim Hall, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Paul Quinichette, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Hank Jones, Nat Pierce, Charlie Persip, Eddie Jones, Freddie Green and Big Miller

Jack Pettis was one of the first saxophonists in Jazz - playing C melody with Ben Bernie and His Orchestra, he also headed numerous recording dates with the same personnel - here we have him with Bill Moore, Tony Parenti, Don Murray, Al Goering, Jimmy Dorsey, Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti among others . . great hot dance music with jazz ingredients from 1926-29

Rosemary Clooney - selection of her recordings for Concord from 1988-1993 with Scott Hamilton, Warren Vache, John Oddo, Bucky Pizzarelli, Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton and special appearances by Jack Sheldon and John Pizzarelli

Great series of recordings by Slim Gaillard's Flat Foot Floogie Boys including Cyril Newman, Al Killian, Henry Goodwin, Garvin Bushell, Herman Tindall, Kenneth Hollon, Lournell Morgan, Slam Stewart, Nick Fenton and others - fun originals and terrific jazz playing

Wingy Manone - 1934 . .recordings with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings and Wingy Manone and His Orchestra featuring Eddie Miller, Sidney Arodin, Santo Pecora, George Brunies, Terry Shand, Gil Bowers, Nappy Lamare, Bennie Pottle, Bob White and Ray Bauduc . .trad before trad

Swing Mr. Bunny - Bunny Berigan and the house band from the Famous Door in 1936 featuring the virtually forgotten tenor and clarinet man Forrest Crawford along with Joe Bushkin, Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, Mort Stuhlmaker, Carmen Mastren, Frank Signorelli, Red McKenzie, Cozy Cole and Stan King doing small group jazz under the leadership of Berigan, McKenzie and the Mound City Blue Blowers

Venuti and Lang with vocalists!  Recordings from 1927-32 of the classic duo backing Annette Hanshaw, the Ponce Sisters, Reis and Dunn, Red McKenzie and Cliff Edwards.  Including Adrian Rollini, Jimmy Dorsey, Art Schutt and Frank Signorelli

First recordings led by the great tenor saxophonist Lucky Thompson n 1945-47.  All done on the West Coast and featuring Karl George, J.J. Johnson, Rudy Rutherford, Freddie Green, Bill Doggett, Dodo Marmarosa, Jackie Mills, Benny Carter, Neal Hefti, Barney Kessel and others