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Count Basie Orchestra: Live at the Sands

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 1998

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 ...

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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 - ...

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April In Paris

By Count Basie Orchestra

Label: Victor
Released: 1997

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88 Basie Street

By Count Basie Orchestra

Label: Victor
Released: 1997

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Live At Manchester Craftsmen's Guild

By Count Basie Orchestra

Label: Victor
Released: 1996

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Konserthuset, Stockholm, March 15, 1954

By Count Basie Orchestra

Label: Victor
Released: 1996

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Basie's Bag

By Count Basie Orchestra

Label: Telarc
Released: 1994
Track listing: Firm Roots; Three In One Blues; Hampton Strut; For My Lady; Way Out Basie; Clanks; Basie's Bag; Here's That Rainy Day; Count Basie Remembrance Suite;

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