Quote of the day
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content … it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
Jimmy Rushing
Born: August 26, 1901
Died: June 8, 1972 (aged 70)
Bio: James Andrew "Jimmy" Rushing was an American blues shouter, balladeer, and swing jazz singer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948.
Known for:
- Brubeck & Rushing
- Rushing Lullabies
- Five Feet of Soul (1963)
- Time Further Out (1961)
- Dave Digs Disney (1957)







