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Jazz Focus

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Frequency: 1 episode/2d. Total Eps: 100

Exploring the highways and byways of Classic Recorded Jazz - from the Ragtime era to the day before yesterday!

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🇨🇦 Canada - Music History
15/09/2026
#87
🇨🇦 Canada - Music History
14/09/2026
#77
🇺🇸 USA - Music History
14/09/2026
#67
🇨🇦 Canada - Music History
13/09/2026
#54
🇺🇸 USA - Music History
13/09/2026
#98
🇨🇦 Canada - Music History
12/09/2026
#42
🇺🇸 USA - Music History
12/09/2026
#72
🇨🇦 Canada - Music History
11/09/2026
#35
🇨🇦 Canada - Music History
10/09/2026
#24
🇨🇦 Canada - Music History
08/09/2026
#95

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Cootie Williams - Capitol recordings 1945-6

Episode 126

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 • Duration 01:04:10

After leaving Benny Goodman's band in 1942, Williams put a driving big band together that explored both the new Bebop sounds as well as early rhythm and blues. These recordings featuring the leader playing at the top of his game, assisted by Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson on vocals and alto, John Jackson and Rupert Cole on alto, Sam The Man Taylor, Edwin Johnson and Lee Pope on tenors, Arnold Jarvis on piano, Gene Redd on vibraphone, Robert Horton and Ed Johnson on trombone and Bob Merrill on vocals.

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Show - Matty Matlock and Pete Kelly's Blues

Episode 115

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 • Duration 58:16

The band that recorded the soundtrack to the film "Pete Kelly's Blues" was the cream of West Coast Dixieland - Dick Cathcart, Moe Schneider, Matty Matlock, Eddie Miller, Ray Sherman, George Van Eps, Jud De Naut and Nick Fatool. Almost the same group (with Abe Lincoln, Phil Stephens, Al Hendrikson and Stanley Wrightsman) also recorded as Matty Matlock's Dixie Men . . great jazz!

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Eddie Condon - Bixieland

Episode 124

Wednesday, June 11, 2025 • Duration 01:07:47

Great 1955 sessions by one of Condon's best bands (Wild Bill Davison, Bobby Hackett, Cutty Cutshall, Ed Hall, Gene Schroeder, Dick Cary, Walter Page, George Wettling) recording Bix Beiderbecke-related tunes for Columbia . . a few from other sessions featuring Pee Wee Russell, Bob Wilber, Billy Butterfield, Peanuts Hucko, Jack Lesberg, and Leonard Gaskin round out the program.

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Show - Buddy DeFranco in the 1940's and 50's

Episode 112

Wednesday, June 11, 2025 • Duration 56:28

One of the few true Bebop clarinet players, DeFranco is here featured in his own quintets and sextets recording for Capitol and MGM with Teddy Charles, Jimmy Raney, Kenny Drew, Max Roach and others playing standards and a few originals.

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Duke Ellington - 1934, 35

Episode 120

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 • Duration 01:13:13

At the dawn of the Swing Era, Ellington was in a bit of a funk . . his recording opportunities were less and the Depression had limited opportunities. Fortunately, his creativity came back quickly, mostly in answer to the swing style beginning to establish itself. With a band including Cootie Williams, Rex Stewart, Lawrence Brown, Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol, Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Otto Hardwick, Wellman Braud (replaced by both Hayes Alvis and Billy Taylor), Sonny Greer and Ivy Anderson, he always sounded like himself.

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Show - Joe Sullivan solos and trios

Episode 111

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 • Duration 55:04

Great 1940's and 50's sessions by the Chicago stride pianist doing solos and trios (with Walter Page, Bob Casey and George Wettling) of unpublished Fats Waller compositions!

Rex Stewart 1940/41

Episode 123

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 • Duration 01:11:12

The legendary cornetist at the halfway point in his tenure with Duke Ellington, featured on four small group sessions. Two sessions are his own group of Ellingtonians recording for RCA Victor (including Lawrence Brown, Ben Webster, Harry Carney, Ellington, Jimmy Blanton and Sonny Greer) and two for the Hot Record Society . . one of those by Rex Stewart's Big Seven (with Brown, Barney Bigard, Billy Kyle, Brick Fleagle, Wellman Braud, Dave Tough) and one by Jack Teagarden's Big Eight (Bigard, Webster, Kyle, Fleagle, Billy Taylor and Tough).

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Show - Red Norvo 1943, 44

Episode 109

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 • Duration 56:00

Great band featured on V Disc and a live concert at Town Hall . . with Remo Palmieri, Teddy Wilson, Aaron Sachs, Shorty Rogers, Eddie Bert, Slam Stewart, Specs Powell and others, but the real focus is the leader's vibraphone and xylophone.

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Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra 1937-38

Episode 114

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 • Duration 01:05:56

First blush of Barnet's popular Bluebird big band recording here for Thesaurus Transcriptions with two titles for Variety featuring Frankie Newton. The band features Don McCook on clarinet, Bobby Burnett on trumpet, Don Ruppersberg on trombone, Bus Etri on guitar, Nat Jaffe on piano and James Lamare on baritone sax in addition to the leader playing remarkably well on tenor and especially alto.

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Show - Aaron Sachs with Red Norvo and Eddie Heywood

Episode 108

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 • Duration 57:58

Largely forgotten clarinet player in the late swing/bebop style here featured on 1943/44 recordings with Red Norvo (and Teddy Wilson, Slam Stewart and Remo Palmieri) and Eddie Heywood (with Don Byas, Ray Nance and others)

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