Saturday, January 30, 2010

"Count Basie takes on Jim Crow" by John Simonson


I was standing in the middle of Highland Avenue last Saturday afternoon, admiring the pink-stucco façade of an old union hall, when I heard the voice of Count Basie. “I am a union man,” the Count said, speaking across time from late January 1947. “I will never cross a picket line to play for anyone.”

more at the KC Free Press

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