Charlie Fowlkes

Charlie Fowlkes' relationship with Count Basie sets records for lengthy sideman stints, lasting more than 25 years. The number of Basie sides that this baritone saxophonist appears on also tends to win contests in competitive recording stacking, not that this is an activity to be encouraged. Yet by the time Fowlkes joined up with Basie in 1953, he was in his late-thirties and had already spent ...more