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The Midgets

Featuring the music of Count Basie
Duration: 8:16
August 21, 2007

Count Basie and his Orchestra in Zurich, Switzerland, 1959. Featured soloists are Joe Newman on trumpet, Frank Wess on flute, and Eddie Jones on bass.

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Columbia/Legacy Signature Series: Count Basie & The Brecker Brothers

by Jim Santella
May 13, 2007

Memories stay intact with treasures like these. Columbia/Legacy's claim that their Signature Series includes “the greatest songs by the greatest artists has considerable credibility. Personal opinions notwithstanding, these are indeed among of the best recordings to come out of the Columbia, Bluebird and Arista labels and the series looks set to preserve a valuable portion of ...

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Basie Is Back

By Count Basie

Label: Village Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Corner Pocket; Discommotion; Blues in Hoss

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Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Is Back

Read "Basie Is Back" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 20, 2006

No, the Count isn't literally back... in fact, he's never really been away, as the Count Basie Orchestra has kept rolling along under a series of leaders since Basie's death in April 1984. This latest incarnation, directed by the Count's longtime bass trombonist Bill Hughes, was recorded in concert in October '05 at Denryoku Hall in ...

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Don't Like You No More

Featuring the music of Count Basie
Duration: 2:32
October 27, 2006

Count Basie's Band from the 50's with Joe Williams featured on vocals.

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One O'clock Jump

Featuring the music of Count Basie
Duration: 3:10
October 26, 2006

Count Basie's small group from 1950 featuring Jimmy Lewis on bass, Buddy DeFranco on Clarinet.

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Kansas City Blues

Featuring the music of Count Basie
Duration: 5:03
October 25, 2006

Jimmy Rushing was the grand-daddy of all big-band blues singers, fronting many bands, especially the Count Basie band from the '30s through the '50s. Here he is in a 1957 broadcast together with a Count Basie Orchestra. This is the Kansas Ciy Blues. The back up of his vocal is by Ben Webster on tenor. The solos in between the vocals are by trombonist Dickie Wells, trumpet player Roy Eldridge and tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins.

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The Deacon

Featuring the music of Count Basie
Duration: 5:43
October 24, 2006

Count Basie's Band in 1959 on a TV clip from Zurich. This clip features solos from Thad Jones (Trumpet) and Benny Powell (Trombone).

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Basella

Featuring the music of Count Basie
Duration: 9:54
October 23, 2006

Basie with Ella Fitzgerald at Montreux in 1979. Ella and Count go through some classic blues as well as a little of Tisket a Tasket. A great ovation for Ella at the end.