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In EuropeCount Basie
Release Date: 10/23/2001
Original Release:
1998
# of Discs:
1
J&R Item # 59692_CD
UPC # 046172002824
Label: Lester Recording Catalog
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Performer: Count Basie
Producer: Sonny Lester Distributor: Bayside Record Dist. Notes: Personnel: Count Basie (piano); Booby Plater, Danny Turner (alto saxophone); Jimmy Forrest, Eric Dixon (tenor saxophone); Charles Fowlkes (baritone saxophone); Clark Terry (trumpet, flugelhorn); Waymon Reed, Sonny Cohn, Bobby Mitchell, Lyn Biviano (trumpet); Mel Wanzo, Bill Hughes, Al Grey, Dennis Wilson (trombone); Freddie Green (guitar); John Duke (bass); Butch Miles (drums). Recorded in Nice, France in 1977.
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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Influences:
Handy, W.C. Johnson, James P. Morton, Jelly Roll Moten, Bennie Smith, Willie "The Lion" Waller, Fats
Similar Genres:
Big Band
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