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galen · 3671 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ninety-Fifth Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread
Basie! Bit of a coincidence: I was hanging out at Threadgill's the other day and they played this track: Which prompted a couple-day journey into the more obscure parts of his discography. What a musician, eh? "Basie was not a composer, he was a bandleader and his instrument was the band in the same way that the classical orchestra was French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz's instrument."