Buddy DeFranco Hamilton College Interview Block 61 (Q2387)

Well he was doing mostly the swing era stuff and the Blues. Because he had followed Jimmy Rushing, who was really the Blues singer of the big band era, the top guy in fact. But of course Joe Williams had that little extra something that added to his performance with Basie, the sound and robust voice he had, plus the fact that he could handle the ballads very well. So that made him an extra fe ...