Results for "Count Basie"

Swinging The Blues

By Count Basie

Label: Victor
Released: 2000

Legendary Hits

By Count Basie

Label: Victor
Released: 2000

Count Basie Orchestra: Count Plays Duke/Rosemary Clooney and The Count Basie Orchestra: At Long Last

By Count Basie

Label: MAMA Records
Released: 1999
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Count Plays Duke

Count Basie Orchestra directed by Grover Mitchell: Count Basie Orchestra: Count Plays Duke/Rosemary Clooney and The Count Basie Orchestra: At Long Last

by C. Michael Bailey
May 1, 1999

What’s In a Name. Almost all of the most famous big bands of the Swing era of the ‘30s and ‘40s live on in one incarnation or another. They tour, playing what can be considered the “greatest hits” from the band’s heyday book with a few inventive covers and new original pieces thrown in. The bands ...

Live at the Sands (before Frank)

By Count Basie

Label: Reprise
Released: 1998

At Long Last

By Count Basie

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1998

Rosemary Clooney / Count Basie Orchestra: At Long Last

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 1998

An early front–runner in the race for most appropriate album title — and most enchanting Jazz/pop album — of the year. If ever there were a symbiotic relationship, this has to be it. Rosie Clooney’s pared–down, smooth–as–syrup vocals and the Basie orchestra’s impetuous brass, reeds and rhythm merge together like bread and butter, ham and eggs, ...

Count Basie: Live at the Sands (before Frank)

by Ed Kopp
September 1, 1998

The mid-'60s are regarded as a creative low point for the Count Basie Orchestra, but this live recording proves that the Basie band was as stylish and swingin' as ever in 1966, though fewer folks were paying attention. Recorded during a week-long stint at the Las Vegas Sands Hotel, this release compiles material from the band's ...

The Gold Collection - 40 Classic Performances

By Count Basie

Label: Victor
Released: 1997

Count Basie and the Kansas City Seven

By Count Basie

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 1997