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  • Jazz at 100 Hour 46: The Songbooks (1950 – 1959)

    Jan 19th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Anita O'Day, Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Cole Porter, Ella Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Gil Evans, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Irving Berlin, Jazz Messengers, Lerner & Loewe, Louis Armstrong, Mel Torme, Miles Davis, My Fair Lady, Porgy and Bess, Shelly Manne, Sonny Criss

    Ella Fitzgerald Songs from what came to be known as the Great American Songbook, have been part of jazz perhaps since The Original Dixieland Jazz Band began recording Irving Berlin compositions. In the 1940s, singer Lee Wiley recorded several collections of 78s, known as “albums” – a name that stuck into the LP era, focused […]

  • 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 […]

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