Jazz Focus

Show- Morning With Pops . . Louis Armstrong Autobiography 2

Second set of great recreations of Louis' 1920's small group recordings done in 1956 - with Yank Lawson and George Barnes in addition to the All-Stars (Louis, Trummy Youn

Show - Morning with Pops . .Louis Armstrong Autobiography 1

Great recreations of Louis' 1920's small group recordings done in 1956 - with Yank Lawson and George Barnes in addition to the All-Stars (Louis, Trummy Young, Edmond Hall

Show- Bud Freeman and George Wettling 1954, 55

Two sessions by Freeman (with Dick Cary, George Barnes, Don Lamond) for Capitol and the rest of the George Wettling session featuring Freeman, Jonah Jones, Milt Hinton an

Show - Franz Jackson with the Salty Dogs and Jim Beebe

Two Delmark albums featuring the septuagenarian reed player Jackson with Beebe's Chicago Jazz (Bob Neighbor and others) and the octogenarian Jackson with the Salty Dogs (

Show- Morning with Pops . .Louis and the Hawaiians

Four recordings done by Louis with Andy Iona's Islanders, one ("Song of the Islands") from his Autobiography album and three non-Louis sides by Mannie Klein and His Swing

Show - Morning with Pops . .Louis with Ed Hall and This is Jazz 1947

Live sides with Louis back to his roots leading a New Orleans styled jazz band - Edmond Hall, Albert Nicholas, George Brunies, Pops Foster, Danny Barker, Baby Dodds, Art

Show - Jonah Jones Swing sides - 1954

The great trumpet player in a selection of mainstream sides done for Vogue with Alix Combelle's band (including Jean-Claude Pelletier), his own sextet for Bethlehem (with

Al Sudhalter - Boston Sax ! 1930's and 60's

Al Sudhalter was one of the busiest musicians on the dance band scene in Boston in the 1920's and 30's . . .he refused chances to go to New York or London.  Here is he he

Show - Jonah Jones 1953/54 with Sidney Bechet and others

The great trumpeter Jones is here featured on two sides with Bechet for Blue Note (with Jimmy Archey, Wellman Braud, Manzie Johnson and Buddy Weed) and several for Vogue

Show - Morning With Pops . . Louis Armstrong 1935

Louis' first recordings after his return from Europe in 1935 inaugurated his career as a crooner . . pop tunes featuring him with the Luis Russell band.

Morning with Pops - Louis and the Gershwins

Recordings of a variety of Gershwin tunes featuring Louis Armstrong with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.

Show - Barrelhouse Piano Rolls! 1920-31

Many piano players took advantage of player-piano technology to record their own compositions during the Jazz and Blues era of the 1920's.  While the playback didn't give

Fenix Jazz Band - Trad Jazz in Argentina 1978-99

Long-lived band from Buenos Aires, the Fenix Jazz Band recorded frequently during the 1980's and 90's and demonstrated a commitment to 1920's Jazz and Ragtime with drivin

Show - Jimmy Blythe Southside Chicago . .1924-31

The short-lived barrelhouse pianist recorded a handful of solos and great blues accompaniments heard here - with Sodarisa Miller, Monette, Moore, Priscilla Stewart and Al

Morning with Pops - Louis and New Orleans 1946

Two Victor sessions before and during the filming of the film New Orleans.  With Vic Dickenson, Kid Ory, Barney Bigard, Charlie Beal, Bud Scott, Allan Reuss, Red Callende

Morning with Pops - Louis and the All-Stars 1946, 7

First sessions by the All-Stars for Victor, with Jack Teagarden, Bobby Hackett, Peanuts Hucko, Ernie Caceres, Dick Cary, Cozy Cole, Al Casey, Arvell Shaw, Sid Catlett, Ba

Show- Ernie Carson with the Original Salty Dogs 1991-93

Two GHB and one Stomp Off album present the Portland/Atlanta cornetist fronting a group drawn from the classic Salty Dog lineup - Tom Bartlett, Kim Cusack, Wayne Jones an

Muggsy Spanier Commodore Sessions - 1944

Four great 1944 sessions for Commodore featuring Muggsy Spanier's Ragtimers - with Miff Mole, Lou McGarity, Pee Wee Russell, Ernie Caceres, Dick Cary, Gene Schroeder, Boo

Show- Hal McIntyre and His Orchestra 1942-47

Glenn Miller's first lead alto player Hal McIntyre left that group in 1941 to form his own big band, which owed much more to Ellington's sound.  Tenor saxophonists Dave M

Morning with Pops - Louis and the Big Band 1937-40

Great sides recreating some of Louis' earlier recorded hits - with JC Higginbotham (tbn), Charlie Holmes (alto), Bingie Madison (clt), Joe Garland (tenor), Luis Russell (