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Mr. Five by Five. " Mr. Five by Five " is a 1942 popular song by Don Raye and Gene DePaul, that describes a heavyset man who is "five feet tall and five feet wide". The person highlighted by the song was Jimmy Rushing, the featured vocalist of Count Basie 's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948.
23. Jan. 1996 · Find release reviews and credits for Mister Five-By-Five: Swingin' Blues Sides - Jimmy Rushing on AllMusic - 1996
Mister Five-By-Five: Swingin' Blues Sides by Jimmy Rushing released in 1981. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Young plays a fine opening solo and he plays great exchanges with Basie, but that’s basically all that this performance has in common with the 1939 “Lester Leaps In”. The tempo is slower in 1944 than 5 years earlier, and the harmonic progression was “I Got Rhythm” in 1939 and a 12-bar blues on the “remake”.
‘Mister Five-by-Five’ was probably the loudest Blues Shouter of them all. Fronting the Count Basie Orchestra, Jimmy Rushing was still capable of injecting great emotional force into his performances at a volume that barely needed a microphone! His careful phrasing brought the Blues into the repertiore of swing bands as Count Basie’s front-man; his up-tempo Jump-Blues was popular in the ...
Count Basie, Basie, Count Pianist, bandleader In his monumental second volume on the history of jazz, The Swing Era, Gunther Schuller delays his attempt to define… James Andrew Rushing, Jimmy Rushing Singer For the Record… Selected discography Sources Best known as “Mister Five by Five”—an affectionate reference to his diminutive hei…
