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Hace 2 días · Count Basie, as early as 1945, insisted by contract that he would not play unless his integrated band was accepted and integrated audience were the order of his day. Duke Ellington wrote ...
Hace 1 día · For the record, Tye (mis)identifies Walter Page as one of Basie’s “brilliant wind-section soloists”. Useful to the newcomer, The Jazzmen offers little that is new to already informed followers of the celebrated principals or their world. *** The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America, by Larry
Hace 4 días · “One O’Clock Jump” was composed by Count Basie in 1937, in collaboration with saxophonist Buster Smith and arranger Eddie Durham. Basie had been a member of a band led by pianist Benny Moten for several years. When Moten died in 1935, Basie took over the band and developed it as his own.
Hace 1 día · Even if one doesn't think of jazz as a religion, as many fans do, one can appreciate Larry Tye referring to Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington as "jazz's Holy Trinity" in his admiring biography The Jazzmen.Tye is only slightly hyperbolic when he writes that this book is about "three revolutionary American maestros, the jazzmen whose music throbs at the soul of twentieth-century ...
Hace 2 días · As heard on this morning’s Morning Edition, we continue a conversation with Author Larry Tye, author of The Jazzmen, How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America. Tye paints a vivid and immersive portrait of the birth of jazz and more. Shelley Irwin is the host and producer for The Shelley Irwin Show, a news ...
Hace 2 días · A new book by Larry Tye -- The Jazzmen -- traces how the popularity of musicians Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie affected the civil rights movement. Michel Martin is the weekend host of All Things Considered, where she draws on her deep reporting and interviewing experience to dig in ...
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