Count Basie - Count Basie And His Band That Swings The Blues flac album

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A6. Down For The Count. B2. Blues Inside Out. B3. Lady Be Good.

Given the paucity of Basie recordings from the '40s issued by his own label, the quality and content of this collection of 14 songs cut exclusively for radio in 1944 is scandalously good. his brief tenure with the Basie band, soloing on tenor sax. Jimmy Rushing and Thelma Carpenter are each featured on two numbers, and Carpenter's bluesy vocals, in particular, are a sultry delight. But the main thrust of this collection is the instrumental work, which, divorced from the three-minute limits of commercial recording, has lots of room for some hot improvisation.

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 1935 and recording regularly from 1936. Despite a brief disbandment at the beginning of the 1950s, the band survived long past the Big Band era itself and the death of Basie in 1984. It continues as a 'ghost band'.

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Count Basie & Joe Williams: Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (Verve, 1956) On Christmas Day 1954, singer Joe Williams began his six-year tenure with the Basie juggernaut. His debut recording with the Count, which still stands as a landmark jazz vocal album, presented Williams' hip, modern take on the blues and gave Basie another big hit with "Every Day I Have the Blues.

Album: Blues By Basie, 2012. Count Basie (Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Williams voc) - Party Blues (1956). Recorded flat and EQ'd with proper 78 RPM (BSI) curve in Audacity.