Herb Ellis
Herb Ellis discusses the importance of music during the depression
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Herb Ellis remembers the first jazz bands he saw
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Herb Ellis discusses his time with Oscar Peterson
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Q: “I think the five or six years you spent with Oscar Peterson, in that time you must have recorded – because that was virtually the house trio at Verve Records, right? – and you were with everybody”
A: “That's right, anybody can ... and then after I left Oscar and was home a few months, I went back with Ella for another two years, so there was almost eight years I was with that Jazz at the Philharmonic.”