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The Count Basie Story |
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| Styles: |
Jazz - Swing - Piano - Big Band - Traditional |
| Media: |
Audio CD |
| Features: |
Box set |
| Release Date: |
5 March 2001 |
| Label: |
Proper |
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| UPC Catalogue No: |
604988991925 |
| Amazon Sales Ranking: |
20230 |
| Number of Discs: |
4 |
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Description |
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It's called the Count Basie Story and, like previous proper boxes, this collection tells the story in chronological order. It starts with "Shoe Shine Boy", from the 1936 session that introduced the names of both Basie himself and the great tenor saxophonist, Lester Young, to the world. Many years later veteran producer John Hammond described this as "the most perfect recording session I was ever involved with". From this auspicious beginning, the story unfolds to show how Basie's band, with its matchless rhythm section, taught the swing era how to swing. Through numbers such as "One O'Clock Jump", "Swinging the Blues" and "Jumping at the Woodside", Basie's amazing cast of soloists--Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Herschel Evans and many more--influenced the entire history of jazz. As the years passed, the band became slicker and used more elaborate arrangements, but never lost the essential simplicity of its approach nor its solid grounding in the blues. Listen to "Harvard Blues", a masterpiece from 1941, for proof of that, with Jimmy Rushing's high, intense voice, Don Byas's silky tenor saxophone and the majestic harmonies of Buster Harding's arrangement. Along the way we catch glimpses of the various small groups--the Kansas City Seven, the All-American Rhythm--which occasionally popped out of the main band. The tracks take us as far as 1950, when the end of the big-band era forced Basie to cut down to a small group for a while, and even that was a superior little outfit, composed entirely of top soloists. As both a musical anthology and a narrative, this collection is impossible to fault. A box of four CDs containing 99 tracks, many of them timeless classics, complete with a 48-page illustrated booklet, all at an eye-poppingly low price. How do they do it? It doesn't seem to matter, as long as they continue to produce stuff as good as this. --Dave Gelly |
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Tracks |
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| 1 |
Shoe Shine Boy |
| 2 |
Lady Be Good |
| 3 |
Swinging At The Daisy Chain |
| 4 |
Roseland Shuffle |
| 5 |
The Glory Of Love |
| 6 |
Smarty (You Know It All) |
| 7 |
One O'Clock Jump |
| 8 |
Johns Idea |
| 9 |
Time Out |
| 10 |
Topsy |
| 11 |
Out Of The Window |
| 12 |
Blues In The Dark |
| 13 |
Sent For You Yesterday (And Here You Came Today) |
| 14 |
Every Tub |
| 15 |
Swinging The Blues |
| 16 |
Blue And Sentimental |
| 17 |
Doggin' Around |
| 18 |
Texas Shuffle |
| 19 |
Jumpin' At The Wodland |
| 20 |
How Long, How Long Blues |
| 21 |
The Dirty Dozens |
| 22 |
Shorty George |
| 23 |
The Blues I Like To Hear |
| 24 |
Panassie Stomp |
| 25 |
My Heart Belongs To Daddy |
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Dupree Blues |
| 2 |
Red Wagon |
| 3 |
You Can Depend On Me |
| 4 |
Blame It On My Last Affair |
| 5 |
Jive At Five |
| 6 |
Oh, lady Be Good |
| 7 |
Oh, Lady Be Good |
| 8 |
Rock-A-Bye Basie |
| 9 |
Taxi War Dance |
| 10 |
Jump For Me |
| 11 |
Miss Thing (Pts 1 & 2) |
| 12 |
Pound Cake |
| 13 |
Clap Hands, Here Come Charlie |
| 14 |
Dickie's Dream |
| 15 |
Lester Leaps In |
| 16 |
I Left My Baby |
| 17 |
Volcano |
| 18 |
Tickle-Toe |
| 19 |
Louisiana |
| 20 |
Easy Does It |
| 21 |
Let Me See |
| 22 |
Blow Top |
| 23 |
Gone With "What" Wind |
| 24 |
Super Chief |
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Moten Swing |
| 2 |
I Want A Little Girl |
| 3 |
Broadway |
| 4 |
Rockin' The blues |
| 5 |
The Jitters |
| 6 |
Tuesday At Ten |
| 7 |
Fiesta In Blue |
| 8 |
Something New |
| 9 |
Feather Down |
| 10 |
Down For Double |
| 11 |
Harvard Blues |
| 12 |
Ain't The Truth |
| 13 |
It's Sand Man |
| 14 |
Dance The Gremlins |
| 15 |
G.I. Stomp (Red Bank Boogie) |
| 16 |
Rhythm Man |
| 17 |
Taps Miller |
| 18 |
Avenue C |
| 19 |
High Tide |
| 20 |
Tappin' On The Q.T |
| 21 |
San Jose |
| 22 |
B-Flat Blues |
| 23 |
High Tide |
| 24 |
Queer Street |
| 25 |
The Mad Boogie |
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Lazy Lady Blues |
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Rambo |
| 3 |
Stay Cool |
| 4 |
The King |
| 5 |
Stay On It |
| 6 |
Bill's Mill |
| 7 |
Brand New Wagon |
| 8 |
One O'Clock Boogie |
| 9 |
Swingin' The Blues |
| 10 |
Basie's Basement |
| 11 |
Shine On Harvest Moon |
| 12 |
Sugar |
| 13 |
7th Avenue Express |
| 14 |
Mr Roberts' Roost |
| 15 |
Just A Minute |
| 16 |
Hey, Pretty Baby |
| 17 |
Bye Bye Baby |
| 18 |
After You've Gone |
| 19 |
If You See My Baby |
| 20 |
Sweets |
| 21 |
Golden Bullet |
| 22 |
Song Of The Islands |
| 23 |
One O'Clock Jump |
| 24 |
Tootsie |
| 25 |
Basie Boogie |
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