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Count Basie & His Orchestra Arranged & Conducted By Oliver Nelson - Africa flac album

Count Basie & His Orchestra Arranged & Conducted By Oliver Nelson - Africa flac album
  • Performer Count Basie & His Orchestra
  • Title Africa
  • Date of release 1972
  • Country US
  • Style Afro-Cuban Jazz, Bop, Big Band
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  • Genre Jazz
  • Size MP3 1673 mb
  • Size FLAC 1879 mb
  • Rating: 4.1
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Count Basie & His Orchestra Arranged & Conducted By Oliver Nelson ‎– Afrique. Label: Philips ‎– 6369 408. Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Gatefold. Composed By – Oliver Nelson.

Oliver Nelson Orchestra. Impressions of Phaedra. Oliver Nelson Orchestra. Rita Reys with Orchestra arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson. Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle. The Sound of Feeling.

Sinatra at the Sands is a live album by Frank Sinatra accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra, and conducted and arranged by Quincy Jones, recorded live in the Copa Room of the former Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in 1966. It was Sinatra's first live album to be commercially released, and contains many definitive readings of the songs that are most readily associated with Sinatra.

After completing his degree Nelson moved to New York City, playing with Erskine Hawkins and Wild Bill Davis, and working as the house arranger for the Apollo Theater in Harlem. He also played on the West Coast briefly with the Louie Bellson big band in 1959, and in the same year began recording for Prestige Records as the leader of various small groups. From 1960 to 1961 he briefly played with Count Basie and Duke Ellington and then joined the Quincy Jones big band playing tenor saxophone, both in the .

Basie & His Orchestra - Afrique (1971)3 - Gypsy Queen. wav Pre-gap length 0:00:02. In late 1970, more than 35 years into his career as a bandleader, Count Basie, working with producer Bob Thiele and axman Oliver Nelson, went into the studio and cut this album of big band blues built on recent compositions - and they made it sound cutting-edge and as urgent as anything the man had ever turned his talent. Ironically, along with The Atomic Mr. Basie album on Roulette, Afrique is one of a handful of absolutely essential post-big band-era albums by him.

Basie Land - Студийный альбом от Count Basie & His Orchestra. Вышел 26 апреля 2005г. В альбом вошло 10 треков. Продолжительность альбома: 34:43. Count Basie & His Orchestra - Hay burner. Count Me In by Count Basie performed by the 2015 UGA Music Camp Jazz Band. Count Basie & His Orchestra - Let Me See (1940).

Basie covering Albert Ayler & Pharoah Sanders. 88 Basie Street" by Count Basie and his Orchestra. Album recorded in 1983 and pressed in 1984 by Pablo Records: 23101. Produced by Norman Granz. Japan ¥2800 - with obi strip: 28MJ-3388. Count Basie won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance with his Big Band for 88 Basie Street. One of his late albums. In 1983 Basie modeled together a mix of veterans and young promising of jazz to create those sounds typical and identifiable with the Basie sound.

Quincy Jones arranged and conducted This Time by Basie, and the record was successful, returning the Count to the pop charts on the eve of the British Invasion. The last five songs here are drawn from Pop Goes the Basie, a 1965 album arranged and conducted by Billy Byers, and produced by Teddy Reig - the playing is as good as the companion work on numbers like "The Hucklebuck.

AFRIQUE Count Basie and his Orchestra - Arranged & Conducted by Oliver Nelson Hollywood: December 22, 1970 Paul Cohen, George Cohn, Pete Minger, Waymon Reed (tp,flhrn); Steven Galloway, Bill Hughes, Melvin Wanzo, John Watson Sr. (tb); Bill Adkins, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Eric Dixon, Bob Plater, Cecil Payne (saxes); Hubert Laws (f); Count Basie (p); Freddy Green (g); John B. Williams (el-b); Harold Jones (d); Richard Pablo Landrum (cga); Sonny Morgan (bgo); Oliver Nelson (arr,cond). a. Kilimanjaro (Oliver Nelson) - 6:51. b. Hobo Flats (Oliver.

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Step Right Up
Composed By – Oliver Nelson
6:25
A2 Hobo Flats
Composed By – Oliver Nelson
6:10
A3 Gypsy Queen
Composed By – Gabor Szabo
5:25
A4 Love Flower
Composed By – Albert Ayler
2:44
B1 Afrique
Composed By – Oliver Nelson
3:15
B2 Kilimanjaro
Composed By – Oliver Nelson
7:02
B3 African Sunrise
Composed By – Oliver Nelson
5:07
B4 Japan
Composed By – Pharaoh Sanders*
4:58

Companies, etc.

  • Licensed From – Flying Dutchman
  • Printed By – Gráficas Foco, S.A.
  • Made By – COFASA
  • Distributed By – Fonogram, S.A.

Credits

  • Alto Saxophone – Oliver Nelson (tracks: A1, A4)
  • Arranged By, Conductor – Oliver Nelson
  • Bass – Norman Keenan (tracks: A1)
  • Bongos – Sonny Morgan
  • Co-producer [Assistant Producer] – Lillian Seyfert
  • Congas – Richard Pablo Landrum*
  • Design – Antonio Lax
  • Drums – Harold Jones
  • Electric Bass – John B. Williams* (tracks: A2 to B4)
  • Flute – Hubert Laws
  • Guitar – Freddie Green
  • Harmonica – Buddy Lucas (tracks: A2)
  • Liner Notes – Bob Palmer
  • Marimba – Warren Smith (tracks: B1)
  • Mixed By [Sound Mixer] – Bob Simpson
  • Photography By – Vlady Bas (tracks: Wlady Bas)
  • Photography By [Cover & Liner] – Ray Ross*
  • Piano – Count Basie
  • Producer – Bob Thiele
  • Saxophone – Bill Adkins, Bob Plater*, Cecil Payne, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (tracks: A2, A3, B2, B3), Eric Dixon
  • Tenor Saxophone – Bob Ashton* (tracks: A1, A4, B1, B4)
  • Trombone – Bill Hughes , John Watson, Sr.*, Melvin Wanzo*, Steven Galloway*
  • Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Paul Cohen, Pete Minger, George Cohn*, Waymon Reed

Notes

A Flying Dutchman Recording
12/22/70 [recording date A2, A3, B2, B3]
12/23/70 [recording date A1, A4, B1, B4]
*Hubert Laws courtesy of CTI Records

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Rights Society: SGAE
  • Depósito Legal: M. 1.407-1972
  • Matrix / Runout (Side 1, Runout): 850 6369408*A*1
  • Matrix / Runout (Side 2, Runout): 850 6369408*B*1

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
FD 10138 Count Basie & His Orchestra* Afrique ‎(LP, Album, Gat) Flying Dutchman FD 10138 US 1971
CL 42784 Count Basie & His Orchestra* Afrique ‎(LP, Album, RE) RCA International CL 42784 Germany 1979
74321796182 Count Basie & His Orchestra* Afrique ‎(CD) RCA 74321796182 Europe 2000
6369 408 Count Basie & His Orchestra* Arranged & Conducted By Oliver Nelson Count Basie & His Orchestra* Arranged & Conducted By Oliver Nelson - Afrique ‎(LP, Album, Gat) Philips 6369 408 Europe 1971
FW 39520 Count Basie & His Orchestra* Arranged And Conducted By Oliver Nelson Count Basie & His Orchestra* Arranged And Conducted By Oliver Nelson - Afrique ‎(LP, Promo) Doctor Jazz FW 39520 US 1984