★★★★★
In the nineteenth installment of their Swiss Radio Days series, TCB Music showcases the Count Basie Orchestra in their 1956 live recording from a concert in Basel, Switzerland. The personnel on this recording make up the second incarnation of the Count Basie Orchestra after the original lineup broke up around 1949-1950. The 1956 orchestra also features some heavyweights in their own right in the lineup, namely trumpeter Thad Jones, tenor saxophonist Frank Foster, and bass player Eddie Jones...
- www.jazzreview.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Track Listing: Disc 1-(Jones-Smith, Inc.) Shoe Shine Boy; Evenin'; Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong); Oh, Lady Be Good; (Basie's Bad Boys) I Ain't Got Nobody; Goin' To Chicago; Live And Love Tonight; Love Me Or Leave Me (Count Basie Kansas City Seven) Dickie's Dream; Lester Leaps In; (Count Basie & His All-American Rhythm Section) How Long Blues; Royal Garden Blues; Bugle Blues; Sugar Blues; Farewell Blues; Cafe Society Blues; Way Back Blues; St...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
During a career that spanned more than sixty years, Frank Sinatra performed many times at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Count Basie usually brings to mind a legendary rhythm section, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, and such singers as Jimmy Rushing and Billie Holiday. But after World War II, long after his most famous orchestra dissolved, Basie put together another that is among the finest big bands in the history of jazz. Count Basie: Atomic Swing provides all the evidence the most doubtful listener could demand. This is classic jazz...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Count Basie Orchestra Swinging, Singing, Playing Mack Avenue 2009 Although over a quarter-century has elapsed since the passing of William "Count" Basie in 1984, the bandleader and pianist's legacy has proved one of the most durable from the big band era, and the Basie band's Swinging, Singing, Playing maintains the Basie tradition and carries it triumphantly into the new millennium...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Track Listing: Corner Pocket; Discommotion; Blues in Hoss' Flat; Segue in "C": Basie Power; We're in Love Again; In a Mellow Tone; Body and Soul; Lover Come Back to Me; Whirly-Bird; Jumpin' at the Woodside; One O'Clock Jump; April in Paris (60:25)...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
The Count Basie Orchestra's debut for MAMA Records embraces the best of two worlds - the Count's hard-swinging brass, reeds and rhythm and the graceful and enduring melodies of Duke Ellington (and Billy Strayhorn). It doesn't get much more inviting than that. If the Basie organization has lost any appreciable ground under the Count's successors - first Frank Foster, now Grover Mitchell - it isn't readily apparent...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Legacy bands working over the trademark scores of famous old jazz orchestras can often simply send you in search of the original recordings. This one shows exactly how remakes should be done...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-04-02
★★★★★
This latest chapter in the Basie band legacy leads with a scintillating rendition of "Too Close for Comfort." On that track, guest vocalist Nnenna Freelon swivels the singsong verses five different ways while the orchestra hews to its swinging template...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
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