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Count Basie made it into one of the most popular pieces of the big-band jazz era, brass and solo horn and discreet piano — the bandleader himself — keeping the melody from going overboard with happiness or letting the contrasting...
The Irish-American party bosses of Tammany Hall are no longer kingmakers on the Potomac, but, still, there remain enough voters from Boston to Baltimore who count themselves Sons of Erin to justify inviting the Taoiseach (our prime minister) to the...