All those showing their love for Buddy and Illinois over on the BFT thread should be interested in this: https://storyvillerecords.bandcamp.com/album/count-basie-at-the-aquarium-1946?from=fanpub_fb
Luna, Luna in downtown LA. (DTLA as they like to label it.)
https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2023-12-01/exclusive-drake-backed-luna-luna-amusement-park-reopening-los-angeles
The winner and still champion! I remember Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson and Barry Galbraith being the New York go-to rhythm section. (Often with Hank Jones?)
I read it a long time ago. IIRC (and I often don't) it connects KOB to many other movements in the arts. I liked it. BTW I really liked the first chapter of the new book which was quoted above. Even though I've claimed I'm not going to buy any more books about either Miles or Dylan (I am still buying nearly everything about Ellington) I'll probably get this book. KOB has a special place in my heart. I got it from the Columbia Record Club when it was first issued and I thought that if this was jazz, I loved jazz.
Yes and sometimes for a musician's complete output. There's a Miles Davis discography on Wikipedia from which you can see that in 1957 Miles had five great albums released: Walkin', Cookin', Bag's Groove, Miles Ahead and the first Lp actually titled Birth of the Cool. What kind of impact must that have had?