Monday, August 21, 1967 closed the BG-78 week at the Fillmore Auditorium — and it belonged to the Count Basie Orchestra with the Charles Lloyd Quartet.

Basie closed the week, and this is the night his name on the poster actually corresponds to. Jim Blashfield's sheet printed four headline acts across seven nights, and the brackets underneath ran separately: Chuck Berry through the 17th, the Young Rascals on the 18th and 19th, Basie's orchestra on the 20th and 21st. Only Charles Lloyd's quartet played the entire run.

The Count Basie Orchestra in 1967 was thirty years old as an institution. Basie was sixty-two, had led bands since the Kansas City days of the 1930s, and had shaped what a big band could swing like — the rhythm section that made "One O'Clock Jump" and the arrangements that carried Sinatra. Bringing that into a psychedelic ballroom, for an audience mostly born after the war, is the clearest possible statement of what Graham thought the Fillmore was for. It was not a rock room that occasionally booked jazz. It was a room, and he booked music into it.