Show - Rex Stewart 1930's

Jazz Focus

Rex Stewart joined Duke Ellington's band in 1935 and his cornet was one of the most frequently featured sounds with that group for the next decade or so. During that time he was also heard in small group sessions led by Ellington or himself. Here are the sessions by Rex Stewart and his 52nd Street Stompers (with Freddy Jenkins, Louis Bacon, Lawrence Brown, Joe Nanton, Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Hayes Alvis, Billy Taylor, Sonny Greer, Brick Fleagle and Ceele Burke as well as Ellington himself), the Duke Ellington Sextet (with Hodges, Carney, Alvis, and Wellman Braud) and Stewart's first date as a leader, recorded just prior to his joining Ellington (with George Stevenson, Ram Ramirez, Jack Maisel, Billy Taylor, Rudy Powell and Bingie Madison).