How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America This is the story of three revolutionary American ...
As the final hours of 2025 slipped quietly into memory, there was no place more alive—or more joyful—than Blues Alley. Tucked ...
Basie's output during the fifties and the early sixties was staggering, and most of his best albums from that period remain in print, including April in Paris (Verve 2641), Basie (popularly known as ...