Count Basie Big Band in Concert, Hamburg, April 29, 1962

♪♫ Count Basie - Corner Pocket 1962 ♪♫

I have been treasure hunting in my basement a few days ago and stumbled over a negative pouch with approximately 30 shots of a concert by the Basie Band given in Hamburg's Musikhalle. If memory serves the shots were taken with a Leica 3f and the Elmar 90/f4 (but I may be mistaken here) on an Agfa IF Rekord 32° (ISO 1250!!).

I'm working on the personnel, left on the flute is Frank Wess and between the two trumpets we see the bald head of Marshall Royal and his alto sax. Next to Frank Wess is most likely Thad Jones. The other trumpet may be Joe Newman or Sonny Cohn. On the drums is Sonny Payne. Right of the solist group Frank Foster with his tenor sax.