Jazz Focus

Texas Shuffle - live and studio recordings of Count Basie's Orchestra featuring Herschel Evans, 1937-38 . . Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells, Benny Morton, Lester Young, Claude Williams and the All American Rhythm Section . .

Hot Fingers - Lonnie Johnson with the stars - 1925-29 . . Charlie Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs, Louis Armstrong Hot Five, Blind Willie Dunn/Eddie Lang, Clarence Williams' Jug Band, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Duke Ellington . .great guitar accompaniment and solos!

 Market Street Stomp - hot bands in St. Louis - 1925-27 . . Charlie Creath, Dewey Jackson and Bennie Washington  . .featuring William Thornton Blue, Pops Foster, Zutty Singleton, Babe Webb, Burroughs Lovingood and the remarkable singer/drummer Floyd Campbell!

Southside Strut - Don Ewell Trio and Quartet with Darnell Howard, Minor Hall and Pops Foster for Good Time Jazz in 1956 and 1957 . . great stride, ragtime and barrelhouse!

My Home Is In A Southern Town  - the General recordings of Jelly Roll Morton's Hot Six and Seven, 1940 . .Red Allen, Joe Britton, Claude Jones, Albert Nicholas, Danny Barker, Wellman Braud, Zutty Singleton . . also two live dates with the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street and an impromptu blues

Songs We Taught Your Mother - Victoria Spivey, Alberta Hunter and Lucille Hegamin in 1960 for Riverside backed by Buster Bailey, J.C. Higginbotham, Sidney DeParis, Cliff Jackson, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Cecil Scott, Herman Autrey, Jimmy Archey, Darnell Howard, Lovie Austin, Pops Foster

WETF Show Two To Tango - Oscar Peterson with the singers . . 1950's recordings of the Peterson Trio and Quartet backing Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire and Lester Young (!) . .also with Ben Webster Charlie Shavers, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Louis Bellson, etc

Shadowland Blues - recordings made in Texas during the 1920's of three different bands - Fatty Martin's white hotel group, Leroy William's Dallas Band (a HOT combo) and the legendary Troy Floyd Orchestra - all done 1928/29 (Martin's records were 1925).  The first recorded solos by Herschel Evans as well as some great blues accompaniments featuring Don Albert and Siki Collins behind Hattie Burleson and Ben Norsingle.

Play Mutt Carey - the great early New Orleans trumpeter in the 1920's with Kid Ory and the 1940's with Ory, Barney Bigard, Joe Darensbourg, Buster Wilson, Eddie Garland, Bud Scott, Alton Redd and Minor Hall . .also with Hociel Thomas and his own band with Ed Hall, Jimmy Archey, Albert Nicholas, Cliff Jackson, Hank Duncan, Pops Foster, Baby Dodds and Danny Barker

Suitcase Blues - The Thomas Family  .. George Thomas, Hociel Thomas, Hersal Thomas, Sippie Wallace - blues recordings in Chicago and New York 1925-26, vocal and solo piano.  With Rudy Jackson on soprano sax