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@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2026-09-02 04:14:56

i'm in the hefti bag tonight
#jazz #basie #countbasie #CountBasieandHisOrchestra

My hand (with a woven bracelet on the wrist) holds up a vinyl record album. The cover is for the Count Basie Orchestra's album "E=MC² = Count Basie Orchestra + Neal Hefti Arrangements," on the Roulette label's Birdland Series, marked "Dynamic Stereo" with catalog number SR-52003.

The striking cover art is a large, dramatic photo of a mushroom cloud from a nuclear detonation, rendered in fiery orange, yellow, and red tones against a dark sky — a pun/visual joke tying "Basie" to "E=MC²" (Einstei…