Eugene Earl Bostic – who dropped the first name as a performer – was an alto saxophone player who lived from 1913 to 1965. He does not have a very high profile...
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I started out aiming to do a post on Fats Navarro, and sort of made it. This is “52nd Street Theme,” which Wikipedia says was written by Thelonious...
[contextly_sidebar id=”23a5462e813ce055bc925bd90e9fcaf1″] This is the beginning of the profile of the great tenor saxophone player Theodore Walter...
[contextly_sidebar id=”e13d45c21843f19eb7e93c3464c888bb”] Dexter Gordon’s website sums up his importance in one line. He was, it says...
 This morning, the site featured the great Big Joe Turner. One of the clips featured Jay McShann along with Turner. Here is more McShann. Kansas City has a...
[contextly_sidebar id=”69cdb63f796b82079a61720aa7f9f7f3″] This clip, from the television program Jazz Party, is more than eight minutes long...
[contextly_sidebar id=”2761285477b6667e4c93fbb5d57bb755″] Leonard Bernstein’s performance of George Gershwin’s piece, which premiered...