* * IT'S 1965 AND COUNT BASIE and HIS ORCHESTRA ARE IN JOLLY OLDE WHERE THIS T.V. PROGRAMME WAS RECORDED. WHAT A WONDERFUL MEMORY OF ONE OF THE GREATEST MUSICAL ICONS EVER ! ENJOY THIS . . . IF YOU ARE YOUNG OR NOT SO . . .

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YES, SEPTEMBER, 1965 AND THE B.B.C. TV PROGRAM IS CALLED THE SHOW OF THE WEEK.  THANK YOU TO THE GREAT BLOG JAZZWAX (via Bret Primack) FOR MAKING THIS AVAILABLE TO ALL OF US.
THE BAND MEMBERS ARE; Phil Guileau, Al Aarons, Sonny Cohn, Wallace Davenport (tpt), Henderson Chambers, Al Grey, Grover Mitchell (tmbn), Bill Hughes (bs tmbn), Marshal Royal (alt sx, clt), Eric Dixon (tn sx/flt), Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis (tn sx), Charlie Fowlkes (br sx), Freddie Green (gtr), Norman Keenan (bs), Rufus Jones (dm), Count Basie (pn) - Bobby Plater & Eric Dixon (arr)

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