Eddie Durham
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Eddie Durham introduced the electric guitar into jazz music. It was a slow incremental process that started in Kansas City, when Durham was playing in Bennie Moten's orchestra, and continued in Jimmi Lunceford's band to finally return to Kansas City, with a combo that was drawn from the Count Basie orchestra: the Kansas City Five, formed in 1938 with trumpeter Buck Clayton, drummer Jo Jones, bassist Walter Page and rhythm guitarist Freddie Green, featured Eddie Durham's electric guitar as a replacement for Count Basie's piano. The Kansas City Six were augmented by Lester Young on clarinet and tenor sax. Durham composed for Basie's groups and orchestras: John's Idea (july 1937), Time Out (august 1937), Topsy (august 1937), Out The Window (october 1937), Sent For You Yesterday (february 1938), Swinging The Blues (february 1938), Every Tub (february 1938).
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