“I’ve Got A Date With A Dream” is a 1938 song by Mack Gordon & Harry Revel. Personnel: Billie Holiday – vocals Buck Clayton – [More]
“Gigantic Blues” (Lester Young). Album: “The Jazz Giants ’56”. Personnel: Lester Young – tenor saxophone Roy Eldridge – trumpet Vic Dickenson – trombone Teddy Wilson [More]
“Blue and Sentimental” (Count Basie, Mack David, Jerry Livingston). Count Basie and His Orchestra “Blue and Sentimental” Decca 1965. Recorded on February 16, 1938. Personnel: [More]
Album: The Complete Blue Lester / Lester Young Personnel: Lester Young – tenor saxophone Count Basie – piano Freddie Green – guitar Rodney Richardson – [More]
“I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan” (Arthur Schwartz) Album : The Jazz Giants ’56 (1956). The Jazz Giants ’56 is an album by saxophonist [More]
“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]
Who was “John” here with the “idea”? John Hammond, the producer of the recording session. The song was written by Count Basie and was recorded [More]