Count Basie was no stranger to Boston. The Doctor of Swingology played here many times between 1936 and 1983, and he...
October 4, 1941: Basie Meets the Debutante
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September 18, 1929: Miss Teddi King, Part 1
Teddi King, born in Revere, Mass. on September 18, 1929, was all of 22 when Nat Hentoff proclaimed in Down Beat that...
The Colorful Strings of Jimmy Woode
Jimmy Woode played the bass for over 50 years, but he isn’t as well known to American audiences as he should be. The...
August 30, 2006: The Album Covers of Burt Goldblatt
The multitalented Burt Goldblatt was born in Dorchester in 1924, and was residing in Hopkinton, Mass., at the time of...
August 29, 1955: The Charmer’s Last Gig?
Calypso Gene Walcott, aka The Charmer, aka “Boston’s calypso monarch,” headlined at the Mambo-Calypso Festival staged...
July 1949: Jimmie Martin Orchestra at the Rio Casino
I dedicated a chapter of The Boston Jazz Chronicles to Boston’s two late 1940s big bands, the “white contingent” of...
July 12, 1956: Tom Wilson Records Sun Ra on Transition
Tom Wilson, the man of many firsts in the recording industry, started Transition Records in Cambridge with two goals....
Nat Pierce and His Boston Big Band
Over the July 4 holiday weekend in 1948, the members of Ray Borden's big band staged a coup. They fired him, and named...
June 9, 1954: Jazz Night Born at the Boston Arts Festival
Jazz Night was first included as part of the program during the Third Boston Arts Festival, in 1954. Jazz happily took...