Benny Powell is probably best known for his trombone solo on Count Basie’s hit, April in Paris. Benny's Tommy Dorsey-like reading comes about 44 seconds into the 1955 track, when he gently trots out the song’s theme and states the melody with enormous warmth and grace. Benny is one of only a handful of surviving members of Basie’s original "New Testamen…
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