Jazz Focus

Bouncing With Bud - Bud Powell's Blue Note records of 1949, 51, 53 . . Fats Navarro, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Art Taylor, Curly Russell, Tommy Potter, Roy Haynes, George Duvivier . .including great solo performances of "Over the Rainbow" and "It Could Happen To You"

The Red Back Book Of Rags was published by John Stark in the 1910's and was used by many New Orleans orchestras of that period.  These are records by 1940's and 60's bands of New Orleans musicians recreating those sounds from the original music . . Bunk Johnson's Band (Ed Cuffee, Garvin Bushell, Alphonso Steele, Don Frye), Mutt Carey's Band (Ed Hall, Jimmy Archey, Hank Duncan, Baby Dodds, Pops Foster, Danny Barker), Peer Bocage's Creole Band (Louis Cottrell and others), Love-Jiles Ragtime Orchestra (Albert Jiles, Charlie Love, Paul Barnes, Albert Warner, Manny Sayles)

Tell 'Em 'Bout Me - the Columbia recordings of Ethel Waters, 1925-28 featuring Fletcher Henderson, Joe Smith, Coleman Hawkins, the Plantation Club Orchestra, Don Redman, Horace Holmes, Clarence Williams

Benny Goodman leading a band including Bunny Berigan, Manny Klein, Jack Jenney, Art Rollini, Art Schutt, Dick McDonough, Artie Bernstein, Gene Krupa, Red McKenzie and others for World Transcriptions in 1934.

The legendary cornetist with Duke Ellington in the 1920's here featured as a guest and lead player in small groups - The Kansas City Five, Texas Blues Destroyers, orchestras led by Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Hoagy Carmichael, Leo Reisman and his own Bubber Miley's Mileage Makers . .Louis Hooper, Bob Fuller, Jake Frazier, Buster Bailey, Wilbur De Paris, Ward PInkett, Lorenzo Tio, Hilton Jefferson, Happy Caldwell, Bix Beiderbecke, Bud Freeman, others . .

Oscar Peterson and the tenor saxes . . a selection from Verve/Clef/Mercury albums of the mid to late 1950's featuring the Peterson trio and quartet (including Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Buddy Rich, Ray Brown, Ed Thigpen and Alvin Stoller) backing up Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Stitt, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Flip Philips and Stan Getz

Brit Bop II - WETF Show featuring the music of Ronnie Scott and his groups, 1946-55.  Featuring Jimmy Deuchar, Derek Humble, Benny Green, Spike Robinson, Vic Lewis, Ralph Sharon, Dave Goldberg, Tony Crosbie, Jack Parnell, Ken Wray and other British bebop luminaries . .

Some of the best late period Louis on record .  .his regular All Stars (Trummy Young, Ed Hall, Billy Kyle, Dale Jones, Barrett Deems) augmented by George Barnes, Yank Lawson and the arrangements of Bob Haggart recreating some of his early records . . Decca, 1956

WETF Show . .More Further Definitions - Benny Carter-led and arranged sax ensembles with Coleman Hawkins, Phil Woods, Charlie Rouse, Bill Hood, Bud Shank, Teddy Edwards, Bill Perkins, Jimmy Heath, Herb Geller, Frank Wess and Joe Temperley . . great arrangements and playing by the leader

Dorsey Stomp . . transcriptions in January, 1934 by the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra and then in September, 1934 by the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (after Tommy left).  Almost the same band - George Thow, Don Mattison, Joe Yukl, Jack Stacey, Skeets Herfurt, Bobby Van Eps, Roc Hillman, Delmar Kaplan, Ray McKinley with Bob Eberle, Bob Crosby and Kay Weber