Bob Wallis was a good trumpet player who played in Acker Bilk's first groups before founding his own. These 1957-61 recordings sample the first part of his bandleading career featuring Bilk, Keith "Avo" Avison on trombone, Doug Richmond on clarinet, Hugh Rainey on banjo, Dick Heckstall-Smith on soprano sax, a very young, pre-Cream Ginger Baker on drums and others . . all playing in a solid four beat New Orleans style
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/supportWETF show -Artie Shaw - the great 1938 band on the cusp of success! Live airshots
Hot Lips Page - trios and bands 1940-46 . . Chu Berry, Teddy Bunn, Joe Bushkin, J.C. Higginbotham, Pete Johnson
WETF Show - Count Basie small groups for Clef, 1952 . .Paul Quinichette, Joe Newman, Oscar Peterson
Johnny Dunn - first cornet king in New York, 1921-23
WETF Show - Vido Musso . .swing tenor sax with Jess Stacy, Willie Smith and others 1946-58
Artie Shaw and His Orchestra - 1937 for Thesaurus Transcriptions
WETF Show - Ivie Anderson with Duke Ellington and others, 1937 and 1946
First Notes - bands following the example of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Earl Fuller, Louisiana Five 1918-1920
WETF Show - Claude Luter . . first French Trad Jazz! 1947-49
First Duke - Ellington's first band recordings . . 1924-26
WETF Show - Ella Fitzgerald Live in Hollywood, 1961, 1962
Sun Ra - Jazz from Saturn! 1956-82
WETF Show - Albert Nicholas and His New Orleans Friends
Leo Watson - Scat Singer extraordinaire . .with Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa, Jack Teagarden, Vic Dickenson and his own group
WETF Show - Erskine Hawkins plays the arrangements of Sammy Lowe 1938-42
WETF Show - Art Tatum 1945
Count Basie Instrumentalists and Rhythm..1942, 47
The Jazz Solo - evolution from breaks to blues to real improvisation in the 1920's . .Louis Armstrong, ODJB, Johnny Dunn, Bix, etc
WETF Show - The Harlem Hamfats . . great 1930's group from Chicago doing blues, jazz and dance music!
Harry James on Varsity 1940
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