This may be something of a surprise if you thought Jimmy Rushing was just a blues shouter fronting the Count Basie Orchestra. Turns out he played a pretty decent piano:
Previous Jimmy Rushing: Boogie Woogie, I Left My Baby.
And there's this amusing early "soundie" with Count Basie – Take Me Back Baby – in which our hero nods off, and dreams….
Mick Hartley 
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