Count Basie Orchestra Feat. Duffy Jackson - Wind Machine

Count Basie Orchestra Feat. Duffy Jackson - Wind Machine ...................................................... The Big Show in 1980 .... ..................................................... Duff Clark “Duffy“ Jackson (born July 3, 1953 in Freeport, New York) was an American jazz drummer. Duffy died in Nashville due to complications from hip surgery- March 3, 2021. Born and raised in Jazz, Duffy Jackson has been performing since the age of four, when his father, legendary Jazz Bassist, Chubby Jackson, gave him his first set of drums. “He had a fantastic feeling for rhythms”, remarked the elder Jackson; whose own rhythmic pulse sparked the Woody Herman Orchestra during the 1940’s. By the age of ten, Duffy had built up quite a reputation as the “Jazz Wonderkind”, making national television appearances on “I’ve Got a Secret”, “The Mike Douglas Show” and other shows. The day after high school graduation, Jackson packed his bags for California to play a three-week stint at Shelly’s Ma
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