Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Arising out of bebop vocals, a number of singers in the 1950s began to replicate famous instrumental solos with the human voice. The practice, initiated by Eddie Jefferson, King Pleasure and Annie Ross was known as vocalese and reached its peak in the extraordinary recordings of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. King […]
Count Basie
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Jazz at 100 Hour 35: Big Bands of the 1950s (1950 – 1957)
Paul Gonzalvez with Duke Ellington at Newport 1956 Woody Herman disbanded the Second Herd in 1949 and, while Stan Kenton and Duke Ellington managed to keep a big band on the road through the 1950s, Count Basie disbanded his band at the start of the decade but assembled a new one in a few years. […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 13: Count Basie – Dueling Tenors and the Great American Rhythm Section (1937 – 1940)
Lester Young – Count Basie In the eleventh hour of Jazz at 100, we followed Count Basie through the Benny Moten Band in Kansas City and heard his first recordings as a leader. In 1937, after Benny Moten’s death, he took the nation by storm with his driving band lead by the “All American Rhythm […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 11 – Kansas City and the Territory Bands (1927 – 1940)
Mary Lou Williams – “The Lady Who Swings the Band.” Outside of the Chicago – New York nexus, jazz thrived during the late 1920’s and 1930’s in Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, with its center in Kansas City. Under the careful control of Boss Pendergast, Kansas City was a wide open town with a thriving night […]