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Count Basie

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 50: Vocalese (1952 – 1961)

    Feb 16th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Annie Ross, Bob Dorough, Count Basie, Dave Lambert, Eddie Jefferson, James Moody, Jon Hendricks, King Pleasure, Lambert Hendricks and Ross, Wardell Gray

    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 […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 35: Big Bands of the 1950s (1950 – 1957)

    Oct 27th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Cannonball Adderley, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, jazz at 100, Quincy Jones, Stan Kenton, Teddy Charles

    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. […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 13: Count Basie – Dueling Tenors and the Great American Rhythm Section (1937 – 1940)

    May 26th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Buck clayton, Count Basie, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Herschel Evans, jazz at 100, Lester Young, Papa Jo Jones

    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 […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 11 – Kansas City and the Territory Bands (1927 – 1940)

    May 12th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Andy Kirk, Benny Moten, Count Basie, jazz at 100, Joe Turner, Kansas City, Lester Young, Mary Lou Williams, Pete Johnson, Territory Bands

    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 […]

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