Jazz Focus

Dick Wellstood live from the Sticky Wicket in Holliston, MA in November 1988 . . solo piano spanning ragtime, stride, swing and even some bop thrown in.

European Bari . . baritone sax players in Europe in the 1950's .. Lars Gullin, William Boucaya, Harry Klein

A great tradition of bari playing - late swing and bebop also featuring a host of other great jazz players from England, France and Sweden.

WETF Show -  Count Basie Live - 1937-38 . . Lester Young, Herschel Evans, Buck Clayton, Dickie Wells, Benny Morton, Jimmy Rushing and Helen Humes with the All American Rhythm Section from the Chatterbox, Savoy and Famous Door!

A series of little known clarinetists in Europe in the 1950's  - Maurice Meunier and Hubert Rostaing (France), Arne Domnerus (Sweden) and Vic Ash (England) with numerous continental jazz stars like Martial Solal, Pierre Michelot and Benny Vasseur treading a middle ground between swing and bop.

WETF Show - May, 1927.  So you think you had a busy week?  Listen to the product of one week in May, 1927 - including Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven, The Frank Trumbauer Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke, that Arkansas Travellers with Red Nichols, Louis Armstrong's Stompers, Sol S. Wagner and His Orchestra, The Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Dixie Stompers, Bert Firman, Charles Dornberger

So Far So Good - a selection of the Columbia recordings of Will Bradley and His Orchestra with Ray McKinley - featuring Peanuts Hucko (on tenor), Bernie Billings, Nick Caiazza, Jo Huffman, Mahlon Clark, Freddie Slack, Billy Maxted, Joe Weidman, Lee Castle and Carlotta Dale - 1939-42!

Ride, Red, Ride . . recordings by Henry "Red" Allen in the 1950's for Soundcraft, Verve, and Victor . .featuring J.C. Higginbotham, Buster Bailey, Sol Yaged, Earl Warren, Coleman Hawkins, Lou Stein, Marty Napoleon, Milt Hinton, Lloyd Trotman, Cozy Cole, Chubby Jackson, George Wettling, Bob Hammer and Sol Hall

Hollywood Stomp - Victoria Spivey singing with a variety of jazz and blues accompaniments in the 1930's - Red Allen, Charlie Holmes, Albert Nicholas, Lee Collins, Arnett Nelson, Black Bob, Mr. Sheiks, Bill Owsley

WETF Program - Stan Getz' West Coast Sessions with Conte Candoli, Lou Levy, Stan Levey, Leroy Vinegar . . great mainstream/bop tenor playing in the late 1950's

A great but almost forgotten hot band - the Mills Blue Rhythm Band held sway at the Cotton Club and other venues with Irving Mills' other bands (Ellington, Calloway) were otherwise engaged.  Pianist Edgar Hayes, trombonist Harry "Fatha" White and later reedman Joe Garland did most of the arrangements which also featured Ed Anderson on trumpet, George Washington on trombone, George Morton and Billy Banks on vocals and reedmen Charlie Holmes, Crawford Wethington and Castor McCord