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Count Basie Orchestra: Atomic Swing
by Mike Neely
Count Basie usually brings to mind a legendary rhythm section, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, and such singers as Jimmy Rushing and Billie Holiday. But after World War II, long after his most famous orchestra dissolved, Basie put together another that is among the finest big bands in the history of jazz. Count Basie: Atomic Swing provides ...
Paris Jazz Concert, April 1972
Label: Malaco Music Group
Released: 1999
Track listing: Basie Power; Big Stuff; Fun Time; Meeting; The Python; Yellow Days; From This
Moment On; It Could Happen to You; The Spirit Is Willing; Cherry Point; Lover; I
Need to Be Bee’d With; Meditation; Whirly Bird; Clean Head Blues; Cherry Red;
Person to Person; Hold It Right There (72:35).
Count Basie Orchestra: Paris Jazz Concert, April 1972
by Jack Bowers
There are at least two things one must keep in mind when considering live or studio recordings made some years ago by well-- known Jazz artists or groups and released on compact disc by not--so--well--known labels. One is playing time; the other is over--all sound quality. The Count Basie Orchestra's Paris Jazz Concert, which took place ...
Count Basie Orchestra: Live at the Sands
by Jack Bowers
During a career that spanned more than sixty years, Frank Sinatra performed many times at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. When Ol’ Blue Eyes appeared there in February–March 1966, the occasion was especially memorable, as his “warm–up act” (and accompanist) was no less than the celebrated Count Basie Orchestra, a pairing that led to two ...
Count Basie Orchestra: Count Plays Duke
by Jack Bowers
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 - ...
