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Kansas City Five's lyrics & chords
When they had time off from the Count Basie Orchestra in the late 1930s, Count Basie's rhythm musicians formed a small ensemble called The Kansas City Five, with trumpeter Buck Clayton drummer Jo Jones, bassist Walter Page, rhythm guitarist Freddie Green and Eddie Durham's electric guitar (as a replacement for Count Basie's piano). When Lester Young joined the band in 1938, on clarinet and tenor sax, it became the Kansas City Six. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional t...read more