Rex Stewart 1940/41

28/05/2025 1h 11min Episodio 123
Rex Stewart 1940/41

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The legendary cornetist at the halfway point in his tenure with Duke Ellington, featured on four small group sessions.  Two sessions are his own group of Ellingtonians recording for RCA Victor (including Lawrence Brown, Ben Webster, Harry Carney, Ellington, Jimmy Blanton and Sonny Greer) and two for the Hot Record Society . . one of those by Rex Stewart's Big Seven (with Brown, Barney Bigard, Billy Kyle, Brick Fleagle, Wellman Braud, Dave Tough) and one by Jack Teagarden's Big Eight (Bigard, Webster, Kyle, Fleagle, Billy Taylor and Tough).