Four sessions featuring different singers with first class jazz accompanists doing a blues repertoire. Albinia Jones (with Dizzy Gillespie, Don Byas, Gene Sedric, Leonard Ware and Sammy Price), Helen Humes (with Herbie Fields, Bobby Stark, Prince Robinson and Leonard Feather), Pleasant Joseph (aka Cousin Joe, with Pete Brown, Leonard Hawkins, Ray Abrams) and Joe Turner (with Pete Johnson, Don Byas, Frankie Newton and Leonard Ware).
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-clark49/supportWETF Show - Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers 1940/41
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, 1923-26
WETF - Louis Jordan . . the first recordings of what became the Tympany Five (1938-41)
Keynote Instruments - Benny Morton's Trombone Choir, Coleman Hawkins' All Star Sax Ensemble, Little Jazz' Trumpet Ensemble . . 1944
WETF Show - Claude Thornhill Orchestra, 1947-8 . .with Lee Konitz, Danny Polo, Red Rodney, Barry Galbraith
Coleman Hawkins Quartets - 1943 and 44 for Signature and Keynote
WETF Show - Gene Krupa and His Orchestra 1956, 58 Drummin' Man and Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements
Sidney Bechet 2 - Bechet and the rhythm section - with Willie "the Lion" Smith, Cliff Jackson, Earl Hines, Teddy Bunn and Meade Lux Lewis
WETF - Charlie Johnson and His Orchestra . . 1925-28
Earl Hines in France - 1949, with Barney Bigard, Buck Clayton, Arvell Shaw, Wallace Bishop
WETF Show - The Capitol recording of Sharkey Bonano - New Orleans trumpeter's recording from 1949-53
Freddie Keppard - great New Orleans cornet player in Chicago, 1923-29
WETF Show - Joe Davis records . .mid 1940's featuring Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Thelonious Monk a.o.
Ornette Coleman - first albums! 1958 and 1959
Sidney Bechet - 1940/41 with Charlie Shavers, Rex Stewart, Earl HInes and Willie "The Lion" Smith
Johnny Dodds - 1927
WETF Show - Miles on the side - Miles Davis recording as a sideman in the 1950's with Lee Konitz, Al Cohn and Cannonball Adderley
WETF Show - Leo Parker! 1954 and 61 . . great late bop and hard bop sessions
WETF Show - Ellington and others . . The 1929-31 version of Duke Ellington's Cotton Club band in their recordings of non-Ellington tunes!
Thomas Morris - New York trumpet player in the 1920's
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