Introduced by Humphrey Burton
After last week's feature on NAT GONELLA Omnibus stays with jazz and presents an edition of Big Band Jazz Count Basie
'You've got to smile and you've got to tap your feet to Basie's music all the time.' (DEREK JEWELL ) Filmed at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, during their recent tour of Britain, the Basie band swings in the grand manner.
Comments from Alistair Cooke
Humphrey Lyttelton , Derek Jewell and The Count himself. Kenny Wheeler
' In a coupe of years, maybe I'll have the chance to play the kind of music I like - jazz music - for a living. But right now jazz is just a labour of love, for everyone who's involved in it....'
The second of two Omnibus films about great jazz trumpet-players features KENNY WHEELER , talking about his working life, and playing in a trio with John Taylor and Norma Winstone , and in a radio broadcast of The Kenny Wheeler Big Band.
Introduced by PETER CLAYTON
Count Basie director ALAN BENSON
Kenny Wheeler director TONY STAVEACRE Executive producer BARRIE GAVIN