Count Basie & His Orchestra - America's #1 Band
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Artist: Count Basie & His OrchestraEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-09-23
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Shoe Shine Boy
- Evenin'
- Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- Goin' To Chicago Blues
- Live And Love Tonight
- Love Me Or Leave Me
- Dickie's Dream
- Lester Leaps In
- How Long Blues
- Royal Garden Blues
- Bugle Blues
- Sugar Blues
- Farewell Blues
- Cafe Society Blues
- Way Back Blues
- St. Louis Blues
- Neal's Deal
- Bluebeard Blues
- The Golden Bullet
- You're My Baby, You
- Song Of The Islands
- These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
- I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
- One O'Clock Jump
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- Little White Lies
- I'll Remember April
- Tootie
- Rock-A-Bye Basie
- One Hour
- Taxi War Dance
- Twelfth Street Rag
- Miss Thing, Part 1
- Miss Thing, Part 2
- Nobody Knows (Take 1)
- Pound Cake
- Song Of The Islands
- Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie
- Tickle Toe
- Louisiana
- Easy Does It
- Somebody Stole My Gal
- I Want A Little Girl
- Five O'Clock Whistle
- Broadway
- It's The Same Old South
- Jump The Blues Away
- The Jitters
- 9:20 Special
- Goin' To Chicago Blues
- Harvard Blues
- One O'Clock Jump
- It's Sand, Man
- Ain't It The Truth
- Taps Miller
- Avenue C
- Blue Skies
- Queer Street
- Lazy Lady Blues
- Rambo
- The King
- Hob Nail Boogie
- Mutton Leg
- Stay On It
- Little Pony
- Beaver Junction
- One O'Clock Jump
- Swingin' The Blues
- Rock-A-Bye Basie
- Don't Worry 'Bout Me
- Time Out
- Boogie Woogie Blues
- Roseland Shuffle
- White Sails
- Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie
- One O'Clock Jump
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Swing, Brother, Swing
- I Can't Get Started
- Moten Swing
- Ebony Rhapsody
- Darn That Dream
- Take It, Pres
- Baby, Don't Tell On Me
- I Got Rhythm
- 9:20 Special
- Elmer's Tune
- Jumpin' At The Woodside
Music reviews of America's #1 Band
Music Review: Happy feet guaranteed
Rating: 5 Stars
This might be just about the perfect gift for any jazz fan you might know. Not as pricey as some other key box sets and yet more beautifully packaged, it also is guaranteed to appeal across a wide spectrum of tastes, presenting music that is foundational to just about every important movement that followed, from bebop to free. Like the baby bear's porridge, it's just right, gathering together all of Basie's Columbia sides prior to the LP era, and thereby presenting a perfect mix of small group and big band recordings, with generous helpings of the astonishing Lester Young at his absolute peak, great features for everyone from Buck Clayton to Sweets Edison, Jimmy Rushing to Helen Humes, to a postively essential appearance by Billie Holiday on three tracks, performing at her most adventuresome. Logically, it leads off with the small group stuff, occupying all of disc one and a chunk of disc two--logical because the earliest recordings here are the famous "Jones-Smith Inc" sides. But also logical because, in the CD era, we're not so much interested in dancing but in hearing the building blocks of modern jazz, and here they are, with sound quality that has presence and detail and real bite. I'll confess an immediate affection for the "Count Basie and His All-American Rhythm Section" sides, originally released as an "album" of 78s dedicated to Basie's interpretations of the blues. Don Byas may not be Pres, but his sound is as tasty in its own right, and all these tracks really look ahead to small-group jazz of the future. The box set hits its only awkward moment as we lurch ahead to 1951 and some octet sessions that are bright and enjoyable but require a shift back in time as discs two and three return to 1939 and move into the big band sides. Still, it's a marvel to hear the house these guys built, not as swanky as Ellington's but funkier. Your feet just wanna move. Disc four is radio transcriptions of live performances, and while the sound quality is more uneven, you won't want to miss hearing the soloists stretch out. Oh yeah, and those Billie Holiday numbers. From sound quality to design, to Loren Schoenberg's detailed annotations, kudos to all these guys for lovingly representing this music. Get it for yourself, or someone else who deserves it.
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