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Here's Count Basie on the Jazz Casual TV program from 1968. Basie paints a picture of Kansas City and Harlem in the golden age, then dispels it with a laugh like the smoke from his cigarette. "So, uh… Where were we?"



I live for glimpses like this of the wonderful times before I was born.

"That's The Lion's ending…"

