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• The Basie On Roulette series proposes to re-issue the integral recordings made by Count Basie between 19for the recording company directed by Morris Levy, the owner of Birdland. Over the years, these records, mostly in mono, have been withdrawn from the catalogues. It is thus with considerable pleasure that these recordings can now.

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• For this studio album from late and early , the Count Basie Orchestra performs ten Quincy Jones compositions; he also contributed all of the arrangements. "I Needs to Be Beed With," "For Lena and Lennie" and "The Midnight Sun Never Sets" all caught on and Jones's charts helped expand the Basie sound without altering it. An excellent CD.5/

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• Jan 01,  · Al Grey shines on “Good Time Blues” and “I Needs to Bee’d With.” Two long jam sessions at Monterey in 19are notable for solos by Basie, Johnny Griffin, Zoot Sims, Roy Eldridge, Benny Carter and Vic Dickenson, the superb support on the second session by Ray Brown and drummer Jimmie Smith being particularly commendable.

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• In early , the member Count Basie band lost a few key soloists (Billy Mitchell, Joe Newman, and Al Grey), but that did not slow them otratelesecas.protcamahteledurlacarbelldolume.co June of that year they quite adequately reloaded. In fact, it could be said they were re-energized, and this live set at Birdland, the self-proclaimed "Jazz Corner of the World," provides proof of how great they continued to be.8/

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• The late Chicago jazz radio personality, Daddy-O Daylie, said it best and said it often, If you are tired, and cannot sleep, dont count sheep, Count Basie, Count Basie. As Daddy-O was the king of rhyme on Chicago jazz radio, these sides prove, over and over again, what kings Prez and Basie were.

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• The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16 to 18 piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in and recording regularly from Despite a brief disbandment at the beginning of the s, the band survived long past the Big Band era itself and the death of Basie in

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• Apr 01,  · Lester Young never recaptured the imaginative genius and powerful tenor saxophone swing of his early years with Count Basie, to , when he did nothing less than change the notion of what a jazz solo could be. To dismiss Young’s subsequent work, however, is to ignore moments when he produced music that falls short of his peak but whose.

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