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To: Ozguy1945
Count Basie's first hit, from the fall of 1937:

The One O'Clock Jump

5 posted on 04/25/2023 10:51:59 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

The Benny Goodman version is better.


8 posted on 04/25/2023 11:45:49 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Fiji Hill

He could play one note with perfect timing and just make it sit there like TS Eliot’s still point of the turning world while everything else went on around him.


10 posted on 04/25/2023 11:59:41 AM PDT by Ozguy1945 (, many others)
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