In 1973, the BBC aired a 50-minute documentary from director John Jeremy on the alumni of the great Count Basie Band of 1943. And then the documentary went out of print. Fortunately for us, the person behind Remembrance of Things at YouTube found an old VHS tape at the public library and uploaded it as a vital historical document.
The documentary include…
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