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“Cina, Cina” (“Chinatown My Chinatown”). The title was changed because jazz music was strictly forbidden in Italy, as in Germany, during the wartime. “Chinatown, My [More]

Personnel: Lester Young – tenor sax Bill Potts – piano Norman Williams – bass Jim Lucht – drums Olivia Davis’s Patio Lounge, Washington, DC, 1956

Count Basie – piano

“At The Jazz Band Ball” (N. LaRocca – L. Shields). Bud Freeman and His Famous Chicagoans (July 23, 1940). Personnel: Max Kaminsky – trumpet Jack Teagarden [More]

“Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid” (Lester Young). Personnel: Charlie Shavers – trumpet J C Higginbotham – trombone Coleman Hawkins – tenor saxophone Lester Young – tenor saxophone [More]

In thе еаrlу 1960’ѕ thе Goodyear Tіrе Cоmраnу commisioned 5 short jаzz fіlmѕ. The рrоgrаmѕ wеrе оrіgіnаllу filmed іn 35 mm nеgаtіvе. Thе sound wаѕ [More]

“My Blue Heaven” (Walter Donaldson) Jimmie Lunceford – bandleader

Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra – Marie (1937) Bunny Berigan – trumpet

“Lester Leaps In” is a jazz standard originally recorded by Count Basie’s Kansas City Seven in 1939. The composition, credited to the group’s tenor saxophone [More]

This is part of the TV Show Astaire Time (last one) from 25 September 1960. Astaire suggested to Count: “You just play and I’ll dance,” [More]