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Count Basie: The Count Basie Story
by Jack Bowers
To mark the Count Basie Orchestra's silver anniversary in 1960, Roulette Records released a double album comprised of updated versions of many of the band's classic recordings from those twenty-five years. This double-disc set, one of two issued by Roulette to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Basie's birth (the other is Count Basie & Friends ), ...
A Bounty of Basie
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Since the immortal William (Count) Basie was born on August 21, 1904, 2004 is his centennial year. Blue Note has released two 2-CD collections of songs, including some of the best and most beloved of his 50-year career, and all warmly remastered in 24 bit. Not a prolific composer like the Duke (though Basie did write ...
Swingsation
By Count Basie
Label: GRP Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Honeysuckle Rose (Razaf/Waller) - 2:58
2. Swinging at the Daisy Chain (Basie) - 2:48
3. Roseland Shuffle (Basie) - 2:32
4. Boogie Woogie (Basie/Rushing) - 2:48
5. One O'Clock Jump (Basie) - 3:00
6. John's Idea (Basie) - 2:53
7. Time Out (Durham) - 3:01
8. Topsy (Durham) - 3:12
9. Sent for You Yesterday (And Here You Come... (Durham/Rushing) -
2:56
10. Every Tub (Basie/Durham) - 3:13
11. Swingin' the Blues (Basie/Durham) - 2:45
12. Blue and Sentimental (Basie/David/Livingston) - 3:10
13. Doggin' Around (Battle/Evans) - 3:02
14. Texas Shuffle (Evans) - 3:07
15. Jumpin' at the Woodside (Basie) - 3:08
16. Shorty George (Basie) - 2:44
17. Jive at Five (Edison) - 2:49
18. Oh Lady Be Good (Gershwin/Gershwin) - 3:10
America's #1 Band: The Columbia Years
By Count Basie
Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Shoe Shine Boy; Evenin'; Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong); Oh, Lady Be Good; I Ain't Got Nobody;
Goin' To Chicago; Live and Love Tonight; Love Me or Leave Me; Dickie's Dream; Lester Leaps In;
How Long Blues; Royal Garden Blues; Bugle Blues; Sugar Blues; Farewell Blues; Caf
Sinatra at the Hands
By Count Basie
Label: Reprise
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Come Fly With Me
2. I've Got a Crush on You
Count Basie: America's #1 Band: The Columbia Years
by Jim Santella
Featuring both Count Basie’s big band and his small group recordings, this 4-CD collection of reissued material includes blues-based jazz that was recorded between 1936 and 1951. Some of the dates have never been authorized for release before, some come from radio broadcast air checks, and many of the recordings appeared on the Vocalion, Columbia and ...
Frank Sinatra with The Count Basie Orchestra: Sinatra at the Hands
by Trevor MacLaren
Finally a definitive remastered version of Sinarta's classic live record with The Count Basie Orchestra arranged and conducted by genius Quincy Jones. It's all here in SACD quality sound approved by Frank Sinatra shortly before his untimely death. The surprise here for collectors is a second disc of previously thought lost sound checks and outtakes with ...
Count Basie: Swingsation
by AAJ Staff
Known for his wide and wild orchestral arrangements, William “Count" Basie also demonstrates a calmer, more concentrated attitude on this first volume of GRP’s new “Swingsation" series (which also features classic collections of Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmie Lunceford and Lionel Hampton, among others). From a liliting take on Fats Waller’s “Honeysuckle Rose" (featuring sax man Lester Young, ...
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