WETF Show Here's Your Change - Toots Mondello!  Hardly anyone knows his name anymore, but Toots was one of the great lead alto players of the Swing Era . . he was also an excellent soloist on alto and clarinet - hear his work with his own group (including two tunes of the Rudy Wiedoeft variety with a trio), Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton (with Ziggy Elman, Ben Webster, Jerry Jerome, and Clyde Hart), Dick McDonough (with Bunny Berigan and Adrian Rollini), Bob Haggart (Chris Griffin, Peanuts Hucko and Paul Ricci), and Deane Kinkaide (Peanuts Hucko, Yank Lawson and Cutty Cutshall)

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