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Count Plays Duke

By Count Basie Orchestra

Label: Victor
Released: 1998

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Article: Album Review

Count Basie Orchestra: Count Plays Duke

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 1998

The Count Basie Orchestra's debut for MAMA Records embraces the best of two worlds - the Count's hard-swinging brass, reeds and rhythm and the graceful and enduring melodies of Duke Ellington (and Billy Strayhorn). It doesn't get much more inviting than that. If the Basie organization has lost any appreciable ground under the Count's successors - ...