Sammy Nestico Orchestra, The Quincy Jones - Basie and Beyond
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Artist: Sammy Nestico Orchestra, The Quincy JonesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-10-03
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Ya Gotta Try ... Harder!
- Belly Roll
- Grace
- Joy of Cookin'
- Quintessence
- How Sweet It Is
- Hard Sock Dance
- Witching Hour
- For Lena and Lennie
- No Time Like the Present
- Lisette
- Out of the Night
Music reviews of Basie and Beyond
Music Review: I Have Listened To This Quite A Few Times And
Rating: 3 Stars
I still can't work up enthusiasm. Difficult to review! I have to quote a review by William Ruhman of All Music Group since it is closest to defining what I feel. Mr. Ruhlman states that the cd is "more beyond than Basie" which is true since only four of the selections can I even identify as being recorded by the Count. One other comment by him also struck a chord (no pun intended!) that much of the music seemed to be scored for films......more "jazzy" than "jazz". My lack of enjoyment was possibly due to a feeling that maybe it covered too much ground............let's face it, there's a huge disparity in the styles of Basie and what Quincy recorded back in the sixties and seventies. Even some of Sammy's compositions presented here lack something that I've come to associate with his music.
That said, I have a huge respect for both men and what they have accomplished in their lives. I have Q's original albums (transferred to disk) of "Ndeda" (Mercury) and "The Quintessintial Charts" (ABC Impulse) which feature quite a few of his charts which appear here. All of that music has been reissued under various mixtures which were not my preference. Q and I parted ways musically when he started doing some of the crossover stuff in 1974(?) so I probably built this cd up too much in my mind.
Obviously nothing was spared in getting the best musicians available. It's a good cd.....just not a great one for me.
Description of Basie and Beyond
To those post-baby boomers weaned on Michael Jackson's Thriller, this straight-ahead jazz date by the superproducer Quincy Jones, with Count Basie orchestra arranger Sammy Nestico, may seem out of place--a relic of Jones's distant jazz past. But to Q's old-school fans who grew up hearing him with Ray Charles and Lionel Hampton, and on albums like This is How I Feel About Jazz (1957) and Walkin' in Space, this CD is a long-awaited return to his roots.Jones arranged and produced a number of Basie LPs in the 1960s, and he also arranged the music when Frank Sinatra and Basie convened on classics like It Might As Well Be Spring, so it should surprise no one how well Basie and Beyond swings. The band is composed of topnotch West Coast session men, featuring flutist Hubert Laws, guitarist Paul Jackson Jr., and tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts. Along with a few no-nonsense tunes by Nestic--including "Ya Gotta Try ... Harder!," "The Joy of Cookin'," and "Out of the Night"--the date features Jones's several rare 1950s and '60s tunes: a midtempo update of "Jelly Roll" highlighted by tenor saxophonist Watts's Coltrane-ish lines. The Tadd Dameron-tinged ballad "Quintessence" and the late-night Kansas City stroll of "The Witching Hour" show Q's still got it. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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