The Great Buck Clayton

photo: Robert Parent

Here’s Buck Clayton, who played with the Count Basie Orchestra and recorded with Billie Holiday and Lester Young, playing the classic All of Me. Back in ancient days when I was a kid trying to play jazz trumpet, he was my favorite.

(The last fifty seconds are silent.)

Here’s Louis Armstrong in an earlier recording.

...can't you see/I’m no good without you...../you took the part/that once was my heart/so why not take/All of Me?