Buster Cooper!!!! I am really good friends with Buster Coopers niece and her mom!!. She is a fabulous singer in her own Her name is Siobhan Monique!!! I just saw her sing two weeks ago here in St Pete Florida! This is fabulous footage I will show her family this. Thank you so much! Edit: Uploaded a short of her singing Misty it anyone is curious.
"Fleurette Africaine", "African Flower", "La plus belle Africaine" => State Department tour, cut short by the Kennedy assassination (listen to Woody Herman's dirge-like _A Taste of Honey,_ recorded only minutes after hearing the shattering news) => _The Far East Suite_ (rather a Mid-East one, save for "Ad Lib on Nippon"), one of the Duke's and Billy Strayhorn's best efforts in this format.
My grandma worked at a club in Columbus, Ohio when she was 15, met Ellington, even got to attend his party on the train car the band stayed on. The hotels in town were whites only, so it was common for black touring acts to stay on their cars. She says they had a small ensemble set up on the train car and a nice party. “Those were different times”, she says, commenting on whites only laws. But I can’t think of a better flex than meeting The Duke, probably the most brilliant musical mind of the last two centuries.
Buster Cooper!!!! I am really good friends with Buster Coopers niece and her mom!!. She is a fabulous singer in her own Her name is Siobhan Monique!!! I just saw her sing two weeks ago here in St Pete Florida! This is fabulous footage I will show her family this. Thank you so much!
Edit: Uploaded a short of her singing Misty it anyone is curious.
"Fleurette Africaine", "African Flower", "La plus belle Africaine" => State Department tour, cut short by the Kennedy assassination (listen to Woody Herman's dirge-like _A Taste of Honey,_ recorded only minutes after hearing the shattering news) => _The Far East Suite_ (rather a Mid-East one, save for "Ad Lib on Nippon"), one of the Duke's and Billy Strayhorn's best efforts in this format.
Thank you, Bret. Inspiring. ⭐🔥🌹🔥⭐
My grandma worked at a club in Columbus, Ohio when she was 15, met Ellington, even got to attend his party on the train car the band stayed on. The hotels in town were whites only, so it was common for black touring acts to stay on their cars.
She says they had a small ensemble set up on the train car and a nice party. “Those were different times”, she says, commenting on whites only laws. But I can’t think of a better flex than meeting The Duke, probably the most brilliant musical mind of the last two centuries.
Evocatively told, thank you for sharing your grandma's story with us.
I don't think the music in the middle is Ellington.