by Alain Wong

This week’s song is brought to you by Swing DJ Trevor Hutchison from Perth, Australia. Check out his website at http://www.theswingdj.com/

Song: Tattersfield Stomp
Album: Swingin’ at The Chatterbox
Artist: Count Basie & His Orchestra

My song of the week is Tattersfield Stomp by Count Basie & His Orchestra. It’s a fast hard-swinging track that Basie only recorded once in 1937 live at a dance gig at the Chatterbox Cafe, Pittsburgh. The recording quality is quite poor, but there’s enough there to tell that they were really loose, wild and swinging it! A different band, Ambrose & His Orchestra, originally recorded the same tune as Streamline Strut two years earlier. These are the only recordings I have found of this song so if anyone knows of another version I’d love to hear it! Check out the awesome Basie version on the CD “Swingin’ at The Chatterbox”!

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Thanks Trevor!

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