# Claude Thornhill

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Irving Fazola - sideman recordings

The great New Orleans clarinetist known as Faz played with a bewildering variety of bands during the 1930’s and recorded with many - here is a sample of his work with Glenn Miller, Seger Elllis, Claude Thornhill, Bob Crosby (live), Billie Holiday, and Sharkey Bonano.

JR Monterose

JR Monterose possessed a very strong and personal emotional tone on the tenor sax, and he is one of the underrated masters of the modern jazz era. Frank Monterose, Jr. was born in 1927 and raised in Utica, NY.  The moniker JR comes not from initials but from being a Jr. but he usually spelled it w…

Volume 229: White Album Front Half

It’s a 78 RPM Sunday. These episodes should probably more appropriately be labelled spinning my dad’s dad’s shellac.  In the old days of records coming on 10” disks with one song per side, it made collections rather large. So in order to organize them, record stores would sell large books that you…

Gerry Mulligan

Gerry Mulligan (born April 6, 1927) is possibly the best known baritone saxophonist in jazz, but he has also recorded on soprano and tenor saxophones, clarinet and piano. He is a prolific  composer and arranger, contributing scores to the Miles Davis Birth of the Cool nonet, the Claude Thornhill an…

Show - Saturday Night Swing Club 1936-39

The Saturday Night Swing Club was a regular radio show from the middle of 1936 through 1939 and featured a shifting cast of great musicians - the house band which included players like Mannie Klein, Bunny Berigan, Will Bradley, Pete Pumiglio, Dave Harris, Claude Thornhill, Lou Shoobe and Johnny Wil…

Donna Lee and Claude Thornhill

(98) “Donna Lee” an Claude Thornhill  Standards Ratings 7 Difficulty Rating 8  “Donna Lee” is a cornerstone of the bebop repertoire, composed by Miles Davis (though often attributed to Charlie Parker) and first recorded in 1947 by the Charlie Parker Quintet featuring Parker on alto sax and Davis on…

SWEET & SWING 12 DECEMBER 2025

It's getting festive! With Perry, Theresa, Jack Teagarden and Claude Thornhill among others!

SOB 384/REPLAY Features: Wes Montgomery, Larry Carlton, Ronnie Earl, Ernie Isley & Rico McFarland

Artist                      Song                                          Album                    Label    Notes  - Bernard Herrmann    Twilight Zone - End Title - Dream Theme    40th Anniversary Twilight Zone - 1st Season - 1959    Silva Treasury - 4CD's    2022 SOB Twilight Zone Theme  - Patric…

Maxine Sullivan 1944-1948

Jazz vocalist Maxine Sullivan was born in Homestead, Pennsylvania on May 13, 1911, and died on April 7, 1987. She started singing with her uncle’s band The Red Hot Peppers, and moved to New York City in 1937, at the age of 26, where she recorded with pianist Claude Thornhill. Their recording of “Lo…

Lee Konitz

Saxophonist Lee Konitz (born Oct 13, 1927) is perhaps the best known of the Lennie Tristano disciples. He and Warne Marsh continued to follow Tristano’s musical path, essentially eschewing most of the innovations of bebop to follow a more abstract and more cerebral approach to the music. First gain…