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Count Basie: America's #1 Band: The Columbia Years

Read "America's #1 Band: The Columbia Years" reviewed 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 ...

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Frank Sinatra with The Count Basie Orchestra: Sinatra at the Hands

Read "Sinatra at the Hands" reviewed 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 ...

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Count Basie: Swingsation

Read "Swingsation" reviewed 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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Salle Pleyel - Apr. 17th, 1972

Label: Victor
Released: 2002

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Timeless Count Basie

Label: Victor
Released: 2002

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Count Basie's Finest Hour

Label: Victor
Released: 2002

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Broadway

Label: Victor
Released: 2002

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Basie Meets Bond

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 007, The Golden Horn, Girl Trouble, Kingston Calypso, Goldfinger, Thunderball, From Russia With Love, Dr. No's Fantasy, Underneath The Mango Tree, The James Bond Theme, Dr. No's Fantasy (First Version)


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