On This Day in Jazz History

July 6, 1961: The bands of Duke Ellington and Count Basie record "For the First Time."

Added: 2008-06-27

More facts on this day:

1937
Benny Goodman records "Sing, Sing, Sing" featuring drummer Gene Krupa.

1949
Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie records Mary Lou Williams' "In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee."

1961
The bands of Duke Ellington and Count Basie record "For the First Time."

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