Latest Release
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- 14 JUN 2024
- 3 Songs
- The Essential Jimmy Rushing · 1974
- The Very Best Of · 2004
- The Very Best Of · 2006
- Jimmy Rushing's Lost the Blackout Blues · 1955
- Jimmy Rushing With Count Basie & Bennie Moten · 2011
- Jimmy Rushing With Count Basie & Bennie Moten · 1967
- Everyday I Have the Blues · 1967
- Every Day · 1955
- Jimmy Rushing With Count Basie & Bennie Moten · 1967
- Jimmy Rushing With Count Basie & Bennie Moten · 1967
Singles & EPs
Live Albums
- 2021
Appears On
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet & Jimmy Rushing
- Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra & Jimmy Rushing
- Count Basie and His Orchestra
About Jimmy Rushing
After studying music, Jimmy Rushing became a full-time professional singer in 1923. In the mid-20s, he joined Bennie Moten, and, by 1935, was a core member of the Count Basie band. He remained with Basie until 1948, then worked as a solo, and sometimes led a small band himself. During these later years, he regularly worked with leading jazz artists such as Benny Goodman, Buck Clayton, and Basie himself. Rushing’s tenor voice has a slightly nasal quality that carried comfortably over the sound of a big band, giving his performances a keening, plaintive quality. He continued to tour and record into the early-'70s. Although his voice showed signs of wear and tear, he retained his unflagging swing.
- HOMETOWN
- Oklahoma City, OK, United States
- BORN
- 26 de agosto de 1901
- GENRE
- Jazz