This is footage of the "Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra," a group co-led by a former Count Basie Orchestra member trumpeter, Thad Jones.
Jones can be seen here playing flugelhorn, with drummer Mel Lewis performing an updated version of W.C. Handy's classics composition. This was filmed sometime during the late mid-1960s.
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