"was part of the concert bill for Benny Goodman's famous 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall. It was also the last number ever recorded by Earl Hines, in 1981 after a 58-year recording career. Al Hirt released a version on his 1961 album ""He's the King and His Band"". Rush drummer Neil Peart included ""One O'Clock Jump"" in his drum solos on the band's concert tours in 2002 and 2004. One O'Clock Jump ""One O'Clock Jump"" is a jazz standard, a 12-bar blues instrumental, written by Count Basie in 1937. The melody derived from band members' riffs--Basie rarely wrote down musical"
"the album compared unfavorably to Basie and Williams' previous records ""April In Paris"", and ""The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards"", but praised ""From Coast to Coast"" and ""One O'Clock Jump"", and Williams' performance on ""Stop, Pretty Baby, Stop"". Bonus Tracks; Issued on the Verve 1999 CD re-issue, Verve 559 806-2 Production One O'Clock Jump (album) One O'Clock Jump is a 1957 album by the Count Basie Orchestra, arranged by Ernie Wilkins and featuring vocalist Joe Williams on seven of the ten tracks. Ella Fitzgerald is featured in duet with Williams on the first track, ""Too Close for"
"James P. Johnson James Price Johnson (February 1, 1894 – November 17, 1955) was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of the stride style of jazz piano, he was one of the most important pianists who bridged the ragtime and jazz eras, and, with Jelly Roll Morton, one of the two most important catalysts in the evolution of ragtime piano into jazz. As such, he was a model for Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and Fats Waller. Johnson composed many hit tunes including the theme song of the Roaring Twenties; ""Charleston"" and ""If I Could be With You"
"Bob James (musician) Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote ""Angela,"" the theme song for the TV show ""Taxi. ""He is most famous for standards such as ""Nautilus"", ""Westchester Lady"", ""Heads"", ""Night Crawler"", ""Touchdown"", ""Blue Lick"", ""Sign Of the Times"", ""Spunky"", ""Marco Polo"", ""Courtship"" and ""Just One Thing"". Music from his first seven albums has often been sampled and has contributed to the formation of hip hop. Robert McElhiney James was born on Christmas Day 1939 in Marshall, Missouri to Albert Lamkin"
"ungrammatical title was from one of Red Skelton's radio catchphrases of the day. In 1942 Jack Owens, The Cruising Crooner, wrote a song for Skelton based on it: ""I Dood It! (If I Do, I Get a Whippin')"", but that song does not appear in this film. The film opens with the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra performing Count Basie's ""One O'Clock Jump"". As the tempo and energy of the music increases several couples can be seen dancing in the confined space in front of their theater seats, and other fans leave their seats to stand in front of the band stage."
"Duke Ellington Edward Kennedy ""Duke"" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than fifty years. Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onward and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. In the 1930s, his orchestra toured in Europe. Although widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase ""beyond category"" as a"
"With Gary Burton Bob James (musician) Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote ""Angela,"" the theme song for the TV show ""Taxi. ""He is most famous for standards such as ""Nautilus"", ""Westchester Lady"", ""Heads"", ""Night Crawler"", ""Touchdown"", ""Blue Lick"", ""Sign Of the Times"", ""Spunky"", ""Marco Polo"", ""Courtship"" and ""Just One Thing"". Music from his first seven albums has often been sampled and has contributed to the formation of hip hop. Robert McElhiney James was born on Christmas Day 1939 in Marshall, Missouri"
"Count Basie William James ""Count"" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, Basie formed his own jazz orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two ""split"" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their sound, and others. Many musicians came to prominence under his direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel"
"Orrin Tucker Robert Orrin Tucker (17 February 1911 – 9 April 2011) was an American bandleader born in St. Louis, Missouri, whose theme song was ""Drifting and Dreaming"". His biggest hit was ""Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!"" (1939), sung by vocalist ""Wee"" Bonnie Baker. He founded his first band while a college student at North Central College near Chicago, Illinois. Orrin Tucker's big band, which he formed in 1933, specialized in a more relaxed style of swing, which was somewhat less complex than the music of Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and other famous contemporary bandleaders of the day. Tucker's orchestra"
"Jack McDuff Eugene McDuff (September 17, 1926 – January 23, 2001), known professionally as ""Brother"" Jack McDuff or ""Captain"" Jack McDuff, was an American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who was most prominent during the hard bop and soul jazz era of the 1960s, often performing with an organ trio. He is also credited with giving guitarist George Benson his first break. Born Eugene McDuffy in Champaign, Illinois, McDuff began playing bass, appearing in Joe Farrell's group. Encouraged by Willis Jackson in whose band he also played bass in the late 1950s, McDuff moved to the organ and began"
"concerts for the next half century. It was reportedly titled ""Blue Ball"" at first but a radio announcer feared that title was too risqué. In 1979 the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Later, it was listed in the Songs of the Century. The song is typical of Basie's early riff style. The instrumentation is based on ""head arrangements"" where each section makes up their part based on what the other sections are playing. Individuals take turns improvising over the top of the entire sound. Basie recorded ""One O'Clock Jump"" several times after the original performance for"
"from a concert by the full Count Basie Orchestra at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. The ""Blue Devils"" of the title were the Oklahoma City Blue Devils a travelling band of the 1930s founded by bassist Walter Page that included Basie, Lester Young, Buster Smith and Oran ""Hot Lips"" Page. Many of the same musicians ended up in the Bennie Moten Orchestra which ultimately became the Count Basie band. Songs in the film include ""One O'Clock Jump"", ""Honey Hush"", ""Rose Garden"", ""Chains of Love"", ""Shake, Rattle and Roll"", and a performance by the Basie Orchestra of ""Night Train"" featuring"
"dancers Frankie Manning and Dawn Hampton. George Gee (bandleader) George Gee is a Chinese American swing big band leader. Born in New York City, he grew up with a fascination in the big band music of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1980, he founded the retro 17-piece George Gee Swing Orchestra (formerly known as the Make-Believe Ballroom Orchestra). He performed with this orchestra at the 1995 Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival in New York City. In 1998, he formed the ten-piece Jump, Jive & Wailers, named after the Louis Prima song ""Jump, Jive an' Wail."" Gee is popular with lindy"
"a veteran of the Stan Kenton Orchestra, has been interim director since 2014. The One O’Clock is the highest of nine peer lab bands at the college, each named for its hour of rehearsal and each a standard 19-piece big band instrumentation — five saxophones, five trombones, five trumpets, piano, guitar, bass, and drums. The One O'Clock evolved from an extracurricular stage band founded in 1927 into a curricular laboratory dance band in 1947, when North Texas launched the first jazz degree program in the world. For the next 20 years — until 1967 — North Texas was the only"
"Erskine Hawkins Erskine Ramsay Hawkins (July 26, 1914 – November 11, 1993) was an American trumpeter and big band leader from Birmingham, Alabama, dubbed ""The 20th Century Gabriel"". He is most remembered for composing the jazz standard ""Tuxedo Junction"" (1939) with saxophonist and arranger Bill Johnson. The song became a popular hit during World War II, rising to No. 7 nationally (version by the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra) and to No. 1 nationally (version by the Glenn Miller Orchestra). Vocalists who were featured with Erskine's orchestra include Ida James, Delores Brown, and Della Reese. Hawkins was named after Alabama industrialist Erskine"
"three-minute masterpieces on 78 rpm record sides continued to flow from Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Ellington's son Mercer Ellington, and members of the Orchestra. ""Cotton Tail"", ""Main Stem"", ""Harlem Air Shaft"", ""Jack the Bear"", and dozens of others date from this period. Strayhorn's ""Take the ""A"" Train"" a hit in 1941, became the band's theme, replacing ""East St. Louis Toodle-Oo"". Ellington and his associates wrote for an orchestra of distinctive voices who displayed tremendous creativity. Mary Lou Williams, working as a staff arranger, would briefly join Ellington a few years later. Ellington's long-term aim though was to extend the jazz form"
"Willie ""The Lion"" Smith William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith (November 25, 1897 – April 18, 1973), also known as ""The Lion"", was an American jazz pianist and one of the masters of the stride style, usually grouped with James P. Johnson and Thomas ""Fats"" Waller as the three greatest practitioners of the genre in its golden age, from about 1920 to 1943. William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff was born in Goshen, New York. His mother and grandmother chose the names to reflect the different parts of his heritage: Joseph after Saint Joseph (Bible), Bonaparte (French), Bertholoff (biological father's last"
"Ornette Coleman Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer. In the 1960s, he was one of the founders of free jazz, a term he invented for his album """". His ""Broadway Blues"" has become a standard and has been cited as an important work in free jazz. His album ""Sound Grammar"" received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music. Coleman was born in 1930 in Fort Worth, Texas where he was raised. His sister, Truvenza Coleman, claims that he was born on March 9, 1931. He attended I.M."
"Ernest Trepagnier; under Piron, they included Zue Robertson, Clarence Williams, Billy Marrero (Lawrence Marrero's father), John Lindsay, and Louis Cottrell, Sr.. Olympia Orchestra The Olympia Orchestra was an American jazz dance band active in New Orleans from around 1906 into the late 1910s. The Olympia Orchestra was founded by Freddie Keppard, and typically held between five and seven members. The instrumentation usually consisted of cornet, trombone, clarinet, guitar or banjo, piano, tuba or double bass, and drums. This group established Keppard's reputation as a cornetist; when he left the group in 1914, A.J. Piron became its leader, and he added"
"Don Ellis Donald Johnson Ellis (July 25, 1934 – December 17, 1978) was an American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation, particularly in the area of time signatures. Later in his life he worked as a film composer, contributing a score to 1971's ""The French Connection"" and 1973's ""The Seven-Ups"". Ellis was born in Los Angeles, California, on July 25, 1934. His father was a Methodist minister and his mother a church organist. He attended West High School in Minneapolis, MN. After attending a Tommy Dorsey Big Band concert, he first"
"Hal Kemp James Hal Kemp (March 27, 1904 – December 21, 1940) was a jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, composer, and arranger. He was born in Marion, Alabama, and died in Madera, California, following an auto accident. His major recordings were ""Got A Date With An Angel"", ""Heart Of Stone"", ""Lamplight"", ""The Music Goes 'Round And Around"", ""You're The Top"", ""Bolero"", ""Gloomy Sunday"", ""Lullaby Of Broadway"", and many others. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill he formed his own campus jazz group, the Carolina Club Orchestra. The band recorded for English Columbia and Perfect/Pathé Records in 1924-5."
"Glover Compton John Glover Compton (January 6, 1884 – June 11, 1964), usually referred to as Glover Compton, was an African-American ragtime and jazz pianist. Compton was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and is first recorded as a pianist and entertainer in Louisville in about 1904. That year, he met pianist Tony Jackson, collaborating with him in writing a piece, ""The Clock of Time"", which was reportedly re-used as the basis of the 1922 song ""My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)"", recorded by Trixie Smith with a writing credit to music publisher J. Berni Barbour. Compton then worked as"
"Basie's ""One O'Clock Jump"" featured the contrasting styles of the two musicians and brought to each the praise of both critics and the general public. Evans's greatest single success was his featured solo on Basie's hit ""Blue and Sentimental."" Evans also made records with jazz musicians such as Harry James, Teddy Wilson, and Lionel Hampton. Evans has been credited with influencing fellow tenorist Buddy Tate — who, in 1939, came from the Nat Towles band in Omaha to replace Evans in the Basie band when he died He is also credited for influencing Illinois Jacquet and Arnett Cobb. Although not"
"of Fame in Richmond, Indiana in 2007. King Oliver Joseph Nathan ""King"" Oliver (December 19, 1881 – April 10, 1938) was an American jazz cornet player and bandleader. He was particularly recognized for his playing style and his pioneering use of mutes in jazz. Also a notable composer, he wrote many tunes still played today, including ""Dippermouth Blues"", ""Sweet Like This"", ""Canal Street Blues"", and ""Doctor Jazz"". He was the mentor and teacher of Louis Armstrong. His influence was such that Armstrong claimed, ""if it had not been for Joe Oliver, Jazz would not be what it is today."" Joseph"
"Joe Cabot Joseph Claude Caputo, (July 12, 1921 – March 7, 2016), better known as Joe Cabot, was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and musical director. He is best known for his responsive phrasing and mute-on/mute-off virtuosity. His original composition, ""Slow Down, Sugar, Take Your Time,"" was praised by music critic John Wilson and likened to the stylings of the Nat Cole Trio in an Oct. 31, 1982 piece in the ""New York Times"" Arts and Leisure section. In addition to trumpet, Cabot also played the Flugelhorn. Cabot was born in Cleveland, Ohio into a musical family led by his"
"Paul Whiteman Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist. As the leader of one of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s and early 1930s, Whiteman produced recordings that were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the ""King of Jazz"". Some of his most popular recordings included ""Whispering"", ""Valencia"", ""Three O'Clock In The Morning"", ""In A Little Spanish Town"", ""Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers"", and ""Wang Wang Blues"". Paul Whiteman led a usually large ensemble and explored many styles"
"Bob Szajner Bob Szajner (born 1938) is a US jazz pianist. Born on September 12, 1938, Bob Szajner grew up listening to talented relatives playing various instruments. His mother taught him the basics of music and how to play piano at a very early age. In 1948, he won first prize in the ""Frankie Carle Piano Contest"". This entitled him to one weeks performance at the Fox Theater in Detroit. He was one of the opening acts on the bill (a vaudeville theme) for Billie Holiday along with a comedian and an acrobatic duo. He enjoyed listening to Billie Holiday's"
"Dallas Jazz Orchestra The Dallas Jazz Orchestra (DJO) is a jazz big band based in Dallas, Texas, founded by Thom Mason and Galen Jeter. Since its beginning in 1973, the DJO has produced numerous notable recordings, two of which were Grammy nominated, and has performed internationally in concerts and jazz festivals, such as the Montreux Jazz Festival. Over the years, the orchestra has featured many of the most outstanding jazz players from the world class jazz program at the University of North Texas. Co-founder Galen Jeter is an alumnus of the University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band who"
"Olympia Orchestra The Olympia Orchestra was an American jazz dance band active in New Orleans from around 1906 into the late 1910s. The Olympia Orchestra was founded by Freddie Keppard, and typically held between five and seven members. The instrumentation usually consisted of cornet, trombone, clarinet, guitar or banjo, piano, tuba or double bass, and drums. This group established Keppard's reputation as a cornetist; when he left the group in 1914, A.J. Piron became its leader, and he added King Oliver as the group's cornetist. Under Keppard, the group's personnel included Joseph Petit, Alphonse Picou, Sidney Bechet, Louis Keppard and"
"Jimmy Rushing James Andrew Rushing (August 26, 1901 – June 8, 1972) was an American blues shouter, balladeer, swing jazz singer, and pianist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948. Rushing was known as ""Mr. Five by Five"" and was the subject of an eponymous 1942 popular song that was a hit for Harry James and others; the lyrics describe Rushing's rotund build: ""he's five feet tall and he's five feet wide"". He joined Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1927 and then joined Bennie Moten's band in 1929. He"
"Pete Jolly Pete Jolly (born Peter A. Ceragioli Jr., June 5, 1932 – November 6, 2004) was an American West Coast jazz pianist and accordionist. He was well known for his performance of television themes and various movie soundtracks. Jolly began playing the accordion at age three, and appeared on the radio program ""Hobby Lobby"" at the age of seven. He was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, a hotbed of jazz at the time. One of his best friends and collaborators in Phoenix was guitarist Howard Roberts, whom he met at the age of 13. Following Roberts to Los Angeles in"
"James Lord Pierpont James Lord Pierpont (April 25, 1822 – August 5, 1893) was a New England-born songwriter, arranger, organist, and composer, best known for writing and composing ""Jingle Bells"" in 1857, originally entitled ""The One Horse Open Sleigh"". He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Winter Haven, Florida. His composition ""Jingle Bells"" has become synonymous with the Christmas holiday and is one of the most performed and most recognizable songs in the world. James Lord Pierpont was born on April 25, 1822 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, the Reverend John Pierpont (1785–1866), was a pastor of the"
"Papa Jack Laine George Vitelle ""Papa Jack"" Laine (September 21, 1873 – June 1, 1966) was an American musician and a pioneering band leader in New Orleans in the years from the Spanish–American War to World War I. He was often credited for training many musicians who would later become successful in jazz music. Laine's Reliance Brass Band was the first to fuse European, African, and Latin music.The earliest jazz musicians can be traced back to playing in the Reliance Brass Band or being influenced by those who had. Many of the New Orleans musicians who first spread jazz around"