This tenor saxophonist from Louisiana brought his band to this country for the first time to play at the Birmingham Jazz Festival in July. Alyn Shipton introduces the recording of their concert in the Grand Hotel, and during the interval he talks to Jacquet about his long career, during which he worked for Count Basie, Cab Calloway and Lionel Hampton , as well as leading his own groups. The band's repertoire includes Basie's One
O'Clock Jump, Moten Swing and Hampton's Flying Home.