Kustbandet- The mooche

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The Mooche  Kustbandet/Benny Carter 1980  Benny Benny Carter and Kustbandet from Sweden Kustbandet is a big band from the Stockholm area of Sweden. They play in the style of the late twenties and the thirties and do it better than any band I've ever heard. Initially under the leadership of reedplayer Kenneth Arnstrom they started in 1965 or 66 ar the Detta Kust Band. In 1969 the name was changed to Kustbandet and today, the band, with many of the same musicians from the seventies are still playing festivals and concerts all over the world. These clips are from a midnight concert in the summer of 1980 and the band has Benny Benny Carter as a special guest.  Benny, (1907-2003) played in the late twenties with Don Redman's McKinney's Cottonpickers and started his own band in 1932. The band plays Ellington's "The Mooche" and Benny plays another inspired solo