{"id":2460,"date":"2011-03-23T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2011-03-23T15:40:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T22:40:15","slug":"other-places-frank-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/03\/other-places-frank-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: Frank Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Foster wrote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shiny Stockings\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when he was in Count Basie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153New Testament\u00e2\u20ac\u009d band of the mid-1950s. He gained fame as half of Basie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Two Franks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d tenor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Frank-Foster1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Frank-Foster1-130x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Frank Foster\" width=\"130\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2462\" \/><\/a>saxophone tandem with Frank Wess. The piece became a staple of not only the Basie band but of big jazz bands around the world. There is hardly a high school or college stage band that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shiny Stockings\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in its book. An experienced musician before he joined Basie, Foster went on to earn widespread admiration as a player, composer, arranger, educator and&#151;for a time&#151;leader of the Basie band following Basie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death in 1984. He also led his own big bands, the Loud Minority and the Living Color Band.<\/p>\n<p>At 82, Foster is recovering from a stroke and fighting diabetes. To help with medical expenses, there will be a benefit for him this weekend not far from his home in Chesapeake, Virginia. Bill Lohman writes about it in the <em>Richmond Times-Dispatch<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One would think Foster would be a rich man, based on just that one song, but that is not the case. Foster had never received his full due for &#8220;Shiny Stockings,&#8221; which he wrote in 1955, or other songs he had written or arranged because of contracts that took advantage of his primary interest being in music, not business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read all of Lohman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s column, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.timesdispatch.com\/news\/2011\/mar\/21\/TDMET01-a-sweet-note-for-a-giant-of-jazz-ar-916453\/\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is unlikely that anyone who ever heard the Basie recording of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shiny Stockings\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has forgotten how it goes, but just in case, here it is with Foster soloing on tenor and a picture of Basie.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E3SF4BbBcpA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Among dozens of videos featuring &#8220;Shiny Stockings,&#8221; the <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff could find no trace of film or tape of the piece when Foster was on the Basie Band. If you know of one, let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Foster wrote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shiny Stockings\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when he was in Count Basie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153New Testament\u00e2\u20ac\u009d band of the mid-1950s. He gained fame as half of Basie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Two Franks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d tenor saxophone tandem with Frank Wess. The piece became a staple of not only the Basie band but of big jazz bands around the world. There is hardly a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}