Count Basie - Good Time Blues - Complete Live in Bahams & Las Vegas 1969 [2CD set]

Cat. no: 117034
Format: CD 2CD set
Barcode: 8436563185878
Release Date: 07 Feb 2025
Genre: Jazz

37 tracks across 2CDs, features brilliant stereo sound and a 16-page booklet, with some tracks appearing for the frst time ever on CD

Count Basie's career was revived in late 1957 thanks to the success of the Neal Hefti arranged LP Atomic Basie, which became one of his biggest hits. From then on, the Count Basie orchestra fourished as proven by the two 1969 complete club sets presented here, recorded within two weeks of each other live at La Cabaret Casino in Nassau and the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas.

Among the outstanding soloists are the great Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Basie himself, and, on the Las Vegas engagement, guest star trumpet soloist Harry "Sweets" Edison. Most of the Nassau tracks appear here for the frst time ever on CD.

"This set features updated takes on the Basie songbook's greatest instrumental hits. The music is, of course, great, and the players respond to the excitement of the live audience." - **** AllMusic

Tracks: Introduction To The First Set / All Of Me / Frankie And Johnny / Cute #1 / Lonely Street / Cherokee / Does Anyone Ever Win? / A Night In Tunisia / Li'l Darlin' #1 / Blues In Hoss' Flat / Introduction To The Second Set/Splanky / Hittin' Twelve / One Mint Julep / Bye Bye Blackbird / The Midnight Sun Never Sets / Boone Talk / I Got Rhythm / The Magic Flea / Good Time Blues / April In Paris / Basie / Li'l Darlin' #2 / Cute #2 / One O'clock Jump #1 / Down For Double / Li'l Darlin' #3 / Broadway / Jive At Five / Cherry Point / Jumpin' At The Woodside / One O'Clock Jump #2 / Shiny Stockings / Blue And Sentimental / Every Tub / Corner Pocket / The Kid From Red Bank / One O'clock Jump #3

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