Latest Release
- 17 JAN 2024
- 19 Songs
- The Essential Jimmy Rushing · 1955
- Everyday I Have the Blues · 1967
- Brubeck & Rushing (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1960) · 2008
- Everyday I Have the Blues · 1967
- Cross Your Heart · 2014
- Brubeck & Rushing (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1960) · 2008
- The Essential Jimmy Rushing · 1974
- Brubeck & Rushing (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1960) · 2008
- Everyday I Have the Blues · 1967
- Brubeck & Rushing (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1960) · 2008
Singles & EPs
Live Albums
- 2021
Appears On
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet & Jimmy Rushing
- Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra & Jimmy Rushing
- Count Basie and His Orchestra
About Jimmy Rushing
After studying music, Jimmy Rushing became a full-time professional singer in 1923. In the mid-20s, he joined Bennie Moten, and, by 1935, was a core member of the Count Basie band. He remained with Basie until 1948, then worked as a solo, and sometimes led a small band himself. During these later years, he regularly worked with leading jazz artists such as Benny Goodman, Buck Clayton, and Basie himself. Rushing’s tenor voice has a slightly nasal quality that carried comfortably over the sound of a big band, giving his performances a keening, plaintive quality. He continued to tour and record into the early-'70s. Although his voice showed signs of wear and tear, he retained his unflagging swing.
- HOMETOWN
- Oklahoma City, OK, United States
- BORN
- 26 August 1901
- GENRE
- Jazz