Count Basie: New YouTube Videos
(Tue, 30 Apr 2024)
Wednesdays are an especially good day for Count Basie. His swing is perfect for getting through the midweek blues. Here are seven recently uploaded videos of the band and other groups playing Basie's music: Here's the band in 1980 with...
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Pianist Red Garland's Groovy was released by Prestige in mid-December 1957. It was an album comprised of songs from three different recording sessions, but they were hardly scraps. All of the tracks were excellent, and the trio throughout featured Garland's...
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Wednesdays are an especially good day for Count Basie. His swing is perfect for getting through the midweek blues. Here are seven recently uploaded videos of the band and other groups playing Basie's music: Here's the band in 1980 with...
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Andie, Richard and Billie
Videos: Count Basie in 1971
>> Read More
Red Garland: 'Groovy,' 1956-'57 (Mon, 29 Apr 2024)
Pianist Red Garland's Groovy was released by Prestige in mid-December 1957. It was an album comprised of songs from three different recording sessions, but they were hardly scraps. All of the tracks were excellent, and the trio throughout featured Garland's...
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Backgrounder: Hank Mobley - Poppin,' 1957
Backgrounder: Hank Mobley - Poppin,' 1966
The Philly Joe Jones Quintet, 1960-1961
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John, Grant and Mireille (Sun, 28 Apr 2024)
Last week in The Wall Street Journal, I interviewed actor John Lithgow for my "House Call" column in the Mansion section (go here). John will be appearing in a PBS show called Art Happens Here With John Lithgow, in which...
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Joni, Jamie and Louis
Duke Ellington at Grinnell College, 1957
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Billy Eckstine.
Last week, after my post on vocalist Billy Eckstine, I heard from Phil Dorsey, who owns the BocX, a streaming soul, jazz and fusion station. Or, as the e-station puts it, "Danceable, jazzy, funky, soulful, electronic chill-out music." Phil wrote: "I inherited this picture [above] of my dad, Phil Sr., with Billy Eckstine. I don't know where the photo was taken or when."
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