Count Basie Octet

[medjuck]

I heard an interview with Bobby Short on Fresh Air recently (right after his death) and apparently he starated out as a child prodigy in vaudeville shows. He obviously had mroe talent than Sugar Chile.

[brownie]

Wardell Gray featured with the Count Basie Octet in 1950

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The Count Basie Octet had Clark Terry on trumpet, Buddy de Franco on clarinet, Wardell Gray on tenor, Basie on Piano, Freddie Green on guitard, Jimmy Lewis on bass and Gus Johnson on drums.