Jazz Focus

Stan Getz on 1945, 46 and 49 sessions for Savoy with Kai Winding's Kats, the Stan Getz Quartet and Orchestra featuring Shorty Rogers, Hank Jones, Max Roach, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Raney and Earl Swope . . two Getz records with Benny Goodman (for Columbia, featuring Mel Powell and Billy Butterfield) are added for good measure

Midge Williams is not a well known name today and she did not record a great deal, but the sides with her "Jazz Jesters" feature three different bands active in the 1930's - the Raymond Scott Quintet (with Carl Wade, Pete Pumiglio and Dave Harris), Billy Hicks' Sizzlin' Six (with Fernando Arbello and Edmond Hall) and the John Kirby Sextet (with Frankie Newton, Charlie Shavers, Buster Bailey, Pete Brown, Russell Procope and Billy Kyle).  Some one off records with Teddy Wilson (with Vido Musso and Jonah Jones), Lil Armstrong (Jonah Jones and Don Stovall) and Miff Mole complete the collection.

Clarinet-centric recordings this time . . .George Lewis, Louis Cottrell, Steve Angrum, Harry Shields and Ray Burke with a variety of rhythm sections including Alton Purnell, Slow Drag Pavageau, Emmanuel Sayles, Butch Thompson, Cie Frazier, George Guesnon, Art Hodes, Pops Foster, Jeanette Kimball, Danny and Blue Lu Barker, Johnny St. Cyr, Chink Martin and Sherwood Mangiapanne.

Trumpet-centric recordings with no other horns!  Featuring features by Louis Armstrong, Red Allen, Isaiah Morgan, Punch Miller, Kid Howard and Johnny Wiggs with rhythm sections . . .recorded between 1937 and 1960.

The Dawn of Swing . . not on the Dawn label, but four sessions made between 1933 and 1935 featuring a cavalcade of swing musicians . . racially integrated bands led by Benny Carter (featuring Max Kaminsky, Floyd O'Brien, Chu Berry, Teddy Wilson and Sid Catlett), Taft Jordan (with Johnny Mince, Ward Silloway, Elmer Williams and Wilson), Bud Freeman (Bunny Berigan, Claude Thornhill and Cozy Cole) and Bunny Berigan (with Edgar Sampson, Eddie Miller and Cliff Jackson)

Punch Miller in the 1920's . . legendary New Orleans trumpeter and some of his first recordings with Al WY"nn, Frankie Franko, Jimmy Bertrand, Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon and Tiny Parham with contributions from Sid Catlett, Quinn Wilson, Darnell Howard, Lester Boone and quite a few little known but excellent Chicago musicians.

Charlie Parker the sideman in the 1940's and 50's . . recordings with Red Norvo's Selected Sextet, The Sir Charles Thompson All Stars, Clyde Hart All Stars, Miles Davis Quintet and Sextet featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Flip Phillips, Teddy Wilson, Buck Clayton, Dexter Gordon, Trummy Young, Sonny Rollins and others.

Eubie!  Recordings from 1969 and 1971 of Eubie Blake playing some of his own tunes from the 1920's and 30's along with Noble Sissle and Ivan Harold Browning . . medleys from "Shuffle Along" (1921) and African-American shows from the turn of the century as well as ragtime and very early stride piano showpieces.

WETF Broadcast - Jazz is Where You Find It II - Australia.  Some great Swaggie record sessions featuring Bob and Len Barnard, Roger Bell, Tom Pickering and Ian Pearce .. a terrific blend of Traditional, New Orleans, Swing and even some later styles of Jazz.

Hot Trumpets - focus on the trumpets this time.  Red Nichols, Syd Valentine, Jack Purvis, Bill Coleman, Duncan Whyte, Arthur Briggs, Hot Lips Page, Frankie Newton and Max Kaminsky all featured with just a rhythm section, unencumbered by other horns!  Records from the middle 1920's through the early 1940's reflecting numerous jazz styles and developments!