Word: swingingest
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Basie was not the compositional innovator that another of jazz's crowned heads, Duke Ellington, was, nor an instrumental virtuoso on the order of the Earl, "Fatha" Hines. Rather, the Count's talent lay in his knack for organizing the tightest, swingingest bands in the land; populating them with some of the best sidemen ever to grace a dance floor or a recording studio, including Tenor Sax Player Lester Young, Trumpeter Buck Clayton, Drummer Jo Jones and Blues Singer Jimmy Rushing; and later backing the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. Although his elliptically eloquent, spare style...