Happy Birthday Oscar Pettiford!

Remembering Oscar Pettiford with a 1950 version of "Oscalypso" feat. Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn.

That Time Oscar Pettiford jammed with Hans Koller in Germany

Here's "Gertberg Waltz" from a 1958 show in Hamburg and "The Nearness Of You" 

Roots of spiritual jazz: Eddie Bert Sextet

Here's the Eddie Bert Sextet's entrancing 1955 version of Alec Wilder's Moon and Sand written in 1941. 

RIP Clark Terry, 1920-2015

Remembering Clark Terry with "Swahili" from 1954 backed by Art Blakey, Horace Silver and Oscar Pettiford.