Century of Story & Song: Jalylah Burrell on Redd Foxx – King of the Party Records

'On September 15, 1959, Redd Foxx opened for Nina Simone at Town Hall on a bill that also included the Horace Silver Quintet and J.J. Johnson’s Quintet. This concert was recorded and would become her first live album. According to a New York Herald Tribune review Foxx, then a nightclub comedian, “took a brief turn that would have startled the more typical Town Hall ticket buyer.” Dr. Jalylah Burrell joins TownHallNYC to discuss 1950s nightclub comedy and the pre-Sanford and Son oeuvre of the “King of the Party Records”.'