One O'Clock Jump was part of the concert bill for Benny Goodman's famous 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall. It was also the last number ever recorded by Earl Hines, in 1981 after a 58-year recording career. Al Hirt released a version on his 1961 album "He's the King and His Band". Rush drummer Neil Peart included "One O'Clock Jump" in his drum solos on the band's concert tours in 2002 and 2004. One O'Clock Jump "One O'Clock Jump" is a jazz standard, a 12-bar blues instrumental, written by Count Basie in 1937. The melody derived from band members' riffs--Basie rarely wrote down musical
Rock Around the Clock (film) debuted in the 1955 teen flick "Blackboard Jungle", and is considered the first major rock and roll musical film. Haley's 1954 recording was previously played over the opening credits of "Blackboard Jungle" and the same recording was used for the opening of "Rock Around the Clock", marking a rare occasion where the same recording opened films released in such a short interval (the recording would be used once again to open the 1973 film "American Graffiti"). "Rock Around the Clock" tells a highly fictionalized rendition of how rock and roll was discovered. As band manager Steve Hollis observes that big