DescriptionThis scrapbook contains clippings, photographs, awards, correspondence, and ephemera (including full programs) related to Count Basie and the Count Basie Orchestra, a complete copy of the July 1946...
Date Created1944-1979
Subject(s)Jazz--History and criticism, Big bands, African American musicians, Awards, Jazz--Periodicals, Basie, Count, 1904-1984, Basie, Catherine, Count Basie Orchestra
DescriptionThis scrapbook includes a Joe Louis program book, a full issue of the Revue du Jazz Hot Club de France, and photographs of the Basie extended family, musicians, and dogs.
Date Created1900-1979
Subject(s)African American extended families, African American musicians, Jazz--Periodicals, Basie, Count, 1904-1984, Basie, Catherine, Basie, Diane, Louis, Joe, 1914-1981, Basie family
DescriptionThis scrapbook commemorates the proclamation of "Basie Day" in Kansas City on September 30, 1977 and henceforth, and includes clippings, photographs, a drawing of Count Basie, and correspondence.
Date Created1977-09-30-1977-10-01
Subject(s)Jazz--History and criticism, African American musicians, Awards, Basie, Count, 1904-1984, Fitzgerald, Ella
DescriptionSister Rosetta Tharpe sings and plays guitar on This Little Light of Mine at the Antibes Jazz Festival in 1960. At 3:28, Ray Charles and the Raelettes perform "I'm Goin' Back to Jesus" and "I...
DescriptionTrombonist Wilbur De Paris's band performs "Sensation Rag '' and "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" at the Antibes Jazz Festival in 1960. The same band also performs "Joshua Fit the Battle...
DescriptionThis is an audio from a television broadcast at the Blue Note in 1960. Bud Powell with Pierre Michelot (bass) and Kenny Clarke (drums) plays "Get Happy.” Then Lucky Thompson (tenor saxophone),...
DescriptionBud Powell (piano), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (bass), and Jørn Elniff (drums) perform "Anthropology" and "Round Midnight" at Cafe Montmartre in Copenhagen in 1962. This is not a live television...
DescriptionThis is audio from the television broadcast of the Antibes Jazz Festival in 1960. Bud Powell plays "Sweet and Lovely" on solo piano. Wilbur De Paris (trombone) and Claude Luter (clarinet) with the...
DescriptionBud Powell (solo piano) at the Antibes Jazz Festival in 1960 plays Swing Napoli. Then the Les McCann trio plays "Jeepers Creepers." At 7:00, there is a short excerpt by Ray Charles. From 7:30 to...
