Count Basie-"Shiny Stockings"-not to mention Ella Fitzgerald (!)

If the Basie band playing Frank Foster's classic "Shiny Stockings" chart doesn't improve your mood, your mood may not be susceptible to improvement. Sonny Cohn with the trumpet solo. Great use of dynamics! Basie's bands always had the quietest "quiets" and loudest "louds".


UPDATE: Let's also hear Ella Fitzgerald, live in 1972, with "Stockings".

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