Herb Snitzer in Switzerland - 1988
from Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir, pages 53-54:
I did return in 1988 (and 1989) [to the Bern Jazz Festival, Switzerland] and I brought along a tape recorder, enabling me to record some of the music played by the Count Basie Band under the direction of Frank Foster, a great tenor saxophonist, heading the band since Basie's death. Clark Terry introduced me to B. B. King, with these words, "Herb, you will never meet a man who is more of a gentleman than B. B." He was so right. What a generous and thoughtful man he is, still out there, still making audiences cheer. He is so very special to the blues and jazz communities. And of course his … more >>
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Herb Snitzer, Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir (City of Jackson, 2011), p. 53-54. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1428417173893 accessed: 12 December, 2024
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jazz (, performance of)
written by Miles Davis, Richard Rodgers |
performed by Oscar Peterson, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie Band, Carmen McRae, Maxine Weldon, Frank Foster, B.B. King, Joe Williams |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1988 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in public |
Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:32:54 +0100
Approved on Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:57:25 +0100