On July 20, 1961, the Count Basie Orchestra was in the south of France at the Antibes International Jazz Festival. There, the band played Splanky, Blee Blop Blues, Shiny Stockings, I Needs to Bee'd With, Every Day I Have the Blues (with Lambert, Hendricks and Ross and O.C. Smith), A Little Tempo Please and Old Man River (with an extended solo by drummer…
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