had its origins in an earlier composition, when Buster Moten and trombonist Thamon Hayes composed "Moten Stomp" in 1927, and it was in the charts for two...
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(1930, Voc. 1503) with the Cellar Boys; Buster Moten, who played second piano and accordion in the Bennie Moten orchestra; and Jack Cornell, who did recordings...
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Basie James Rushing James Carter & Joshua Redman 4:54 2. "Moten Swing" Bennie Moten Buster Moten Jesse Davis & James Carter 3:43 3. "I Surrender Dear" Harry...
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James, Ernie Wilkins) – 3:35 Bonus track on CD reissue "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) – 4:51 Bonus track on CD reissue Recorded at Universal...
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Indiana" (James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) - 3:13 "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) - 3:58 "Midnight Sun" (Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton) -...
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CD reissue "Let's Have a Taste" (Snooky Young) – 4:17 "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) – 5:17 "Hallelujah I Love Her So" (Ray Charles) – 2:36...
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Shorty Rogers "How High the Moon" 1940 Morgan Lewis "Moten Swing" 1932 Bennie Moten, Buster Moten, Count Basie, Eddie Durham "You're Driving Me Crazy"...
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by American R&B singer Wendy Moten. Following her success with the album Time for Change, released the previous year, Moten returned to the studio to record...
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figures who passed through the orchestra were Red Allen, Louis Armstrong, Buster Bailey, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Edgar Sampson, Joe Smith, and Fats...
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(Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) - 5:15 "Change It" - 3:19 "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) - 3:26 "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston...
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Benny Moten (November 30, 1916 – March 27, 1977) was an American jazz bassist. Moten had a long career as a sideman from the early 1940s, including with...
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Bennett, Chauncey Gray, Frederick Hamm, Bert Lown) – 9:42 "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) – 9:48 "I Surrender Dear" (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford)...
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(Hank Lenz) - 2:39 "Jubilation" (Junior Mance) - 2:24 "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) - 3:30 "But Beautiful" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)...
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"Confessin' the Blues" (Jay McShann, Walter Brown) – 2:14 "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) – 2:55 "The Man from Muskogee" – 4:18 "Blues for an Old...
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Stéphane Grappelli, one of his last recordings before his death. Sing Moten's Swing, A-Tisket, A-Tasket, and Java Jive were recorded with Asleep at the...
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"Doggin' Around" (Edgar Battle, Herschel Evans) – 8:39 "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) – 10:12 "Travlin' Light" (Trummy Young, Jimmy Mundy, Johnny...
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"Sentimental Journey" (Les Brown, Ben Homer, Bud Green) – 14:45 "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) – 13:30 Recorded in NYC on December 14, 1953 (tracks 3...
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Handy) - 6:35 "Composition #40Q" (Anthony Braxton) - 6:41 "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) - 7:44 "Atitled Valse" (James Carter) - 8:22 Recorded...
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(Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn) – 6:46 "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) – 4:59 "Stormy Monday" (Bob Crowder, Billy Eckstine, Earl...
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Hours of the Morning" (David Mann, Bob Hilliard) – 4:22 "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) – 4:20 "Monster Rally" (Whitey Mitchell) – 3:08 "Three...
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"Wrappin' It Up" (Henderson) – 2:48 Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra – "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten and Buster Moten) – 3:26 Side four Fats Waller – "I Ain't...
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years. In 1936, as Betty Hall, she got a job as a backup pianist for Buster Moten in Kansas City. She returned to Los Angeles to play with Roy Milton from...
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reissued". "Undecided" (Sid Robin, Charlie Shavers) – 4:09 "Moten Swing" (Buster Moten, Bennie Moten) – 6:59 "Candy" (Alex Kramer, Mack David, Joan Whitney)...
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"Rock-a-Bye Basie" (Basie, Shad Collins, Young) – 3:37 "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) – 4:50 Bonus track on CD reissue Disc Two: "Swingin' the...
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Rogers except where noted. "Blues Way Up There" - 5:21 "Moten Swing" (Benny Moten, Buster Moten) - 5:59 "Blues Way Down There" - 4:15 "Solarization" -...
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Girl" Billy Moll, Murray Mencher Ernie Wilkins 3:41 5. "Moten Swing" Benny Moten, Buster Moten Ernie Wilkins 4:28 6. "(Do You Know What It Means To Miss)...
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American jazz trumpeter during the 1930s and 1940s with the band of Bennie Moten, Count Basie, and Hot Lips Page. He was born in Houston, Texas, and was...
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Kirby's formal education ended around 1923. That same year, he met Mary Moten of Airmont, Virginia and they married on 25 August 1925. On 14 December...
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leader Bennie Moten's band. Upon Moten's death in 1935, Basie left the group to start his own band, taking many of his colleagues from the Moten band with...
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included Basie, Lester Young, Buster Smith and Oran "Hot Lips" Page. Many of the same musicians ended up in the Bennie Moten Orchestra which ultimately became...
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