(Born 21 August 1904, Red Bank, New Jersey, US)
Pianist,
organist, composer, arranger, his salutary majesty of the big band and swing
whose orchestra for 50 years, beginning in 1935, becomes a conservatoire for the distinguished
graduating array of instrumentalists and singers of the age including,
particularly, tenor saxophonist Lester Young, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry
Edison and singers Billie Holiday, Helen Humes, Big Joe Turner, Joe Williams
and Jimmy Rushing
Twitter@HerbertEkweEkwe
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