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At Long Last

By Count Basie

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1998

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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, ...

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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 ...

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The Gold Collection - 40 Classic Performances

By Count Basie

Label: Victor
Released: 1997

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Count Basie and the Kansas City Seven

By Count Basie

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 1997

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Count Basie: Count Basie and the Kansas City Seven

by AAJ Staff
June 1, 1997

Count Basie developed the concept of the Kansas City Seven in the late 1930's when Basie recorded with a small section of his Big Band. The original members of that aggregation were: Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells, Lester Young, Freddie Green, Walter Page and Jo Jones. Twenty-three years later he selected a group of ...

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