Our Lindy 3 and 4 teachers Peter and Julia present us every Monday with an Album of the Week, always including some amazing historical context and fun trivia. This made us really enthusiastic about learning more about the culture and the music. So we thought we’d share the love by putting all of them on our website.
This is the Album of the week for the 15th of January. Count Basie’s The Complete Decca Recordings. We’re starting big with this 3-disc album!
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Peter:
“Album of the week! The Count Basie Band moved from Kansas city to New York in 1937 and took it by storm. This is a compilation of the Count Basie Band’s recordings in the Decca Studios at 57th street New York – very close to Carnegie Hall and Central park – 1937 to 1939.
Some other well known names are represented on these recordings as well: Lester Young, Buck Clayton, and Jo Jones, to name a few.
You will probably recognize a few songs that are played often on socials, such as: one O’Clock Jump (the band’s theme song), Topsy, Sent for you Yesterday, Jumpin’ at the Woodside, and Jive at five (which the routine Trickeration is danced to nowadays).”
Thank you very much for sharing this with us Peter!
