Basie Swings Standards

Performer: Count Basie
Artist: Milt Jackson
Producer: Norman Granz; Nick Phillips (Compilation)
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Freddie Green (guitar); Chris Woods, Kenny Hing, Eric Dixon, Danny Turner , Jimmy Forrest, Johnny Williams , Bobby Plater, Charlie Fowlkes (flute, saxophone); Lin Biviano, Waymon Reed, Dale Carley, Willie Cooke, Jim Crawford, Jack Feierman, Dave Stahl, Pete Minger, Ray Brown , Frank Szabo, John Thomas , Sonny Cohn, Bob Summers, Bobby Mitchell, Paul Cohen (trumpet); Mel Wanzo, Curtis Fuller, Mitchell Wood, Dennis Wilson , Fred Wesley, Grover Mitchell , Al Grey, Bill Hughes (trombone); Count Basie (piano); James Leary, John Clayton, John Duke, Keter Betts, Cleveland Eaton (bass instrument); Dennis Mackrel, Gregg Field, Mickey Roker, Butch Miles (drums). BASIE SWINGS STANDARDS is a collection culled from the Count Basie band's late 1970s and early `80s recordings for Pablo Records. Most songs are standards from early in the 20th century, but they're rendered in the Basie post-`50s style--lots of joyfully brash brass, rich reeds, and brisk, modern swing. While devotees of modern Basie will no doubt have some or all of this material, BASIE SWINGS STANDARDS will be of importance to newcomers to and casual fans of big-band jazz.

Record Collector (magazine) (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t includes the Basie orchestra's dynamic renditions of swing classics like 'Jumpin' At The Woodside' adn 'One O'Clock Jump.'"

Simply put, Count Basie led the most swinging of the classic big bands. His youthful education in playing stride piano in New York was meshed with a deep immersion in the hard-swinging Kansas City jazz scene of the early 1930s. As Basie moved from sideman to bandleader, his tight-knit ensemble eventually came to rival Duke Ellington's group. The Basie orchestra's perfectly interlocking rhythm section provided a springboard for a succession of jazz giants--most notably tenor man Lester Young--to launch their solo excursions. Basie's big-band vision was so strong that his group continued for decades after his passing.

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