StLJN Saturday at the Movies: Getting down for the Count

This week, we're taking a break from coming attractions and showing a bit of history instead - specifically, two videos of Count Basie that both feature St. Louis natives as soloists.

Up top, it's Clark Terry on trumpet with a Basie small group in 1950 or thereabouts, working out on "One O'Clock Jump". Wardell Gray is on tenor sax and Buddy DeFranco is the clarinetist. Down below, the 1977 edition of the Basie band is doing "The Heat's On" at the Montreaux Jazz Festival, with a tenor sax solo by Jimmy Forrest. Forrest is perhaps best known for writing the bump-and-grind standard "Night Train" but he, along with Terry, also is one of a select group of musicians to have worked with both Basie and Duke Ellington.