Birmingham Breakdown
by
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington says:
Recorded this tune on November 29,1926 with The Kentucky Club Orchestra. When the Hollywood Club on West 49th Street between 7th Avenue and Broadway in New York reopened in the spring of 1925 it did so with a new name, The Kentucky Club, and we were the band. ...
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