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Martin Litton

The Oxford Concert

By Alyn Shipton

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1: Precious Lord (Thomas A. Dorsey) 5.42 2: Streets of the City(Garfield Haywood) 4.42 3: Just a Closer Walk (Kenneth Morris) 7.08 4: The Old Rugged Cross (George Bennard) 5.14 5: Over the Waves (Juvenito Rosas) 5.24 6: Jerusalem Blues (George Lewis) 3.28 7: Algiers Strut (Kid Thomas Valentine) 6.06

Buck Clayton Legacy Band: Claytonia

by Jack Bowers
September 4, 2013

Buck Clayton, an acclaimed trumpet soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra in the late 1930s and early '40s, had lip surgery in 1969 that all but ended his playing career. After setting the trumpet aside for good in 1979, he turned full-time to composing and arranging, and the Buck Clayton Big Band made its debut in ...