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All day, we had fierce winds, grey skies threatening rain—and then at sunset:
An evening like ours might have made Jimmy Rushing feel a little better about things than when he recorded this with Count Basie in 1936:
Basie, piano; Lester Young, tenor saxophone; Jo Jones, drums; Walter Page, bass; Freddie Green, guitar. You’ll find it in this comprehensive package of early Basie.