The Complete Clef/Verve Count Basie Fifties Studio Recordings

Count Basie - CD

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Artist: Count Basie
Format: CD
Year: 2005
UPC: 602498820254
Item Number: MSI882025
Release date: 05/15/2011

1. New Basie Blues
2. New Basie Blues
3. Sure Thing
4. Why Not?
5. Fawncy Meetin' You
6. Jive at Five
7. No Name
8. No Name
9. Redhead
10. Every Tub
11. Jack and Jill [Alternate Take]
12. Jack and Jill
13. Bread
14. Small Hotel
15. Hob Nail Boogie
16. Basie Talks
17. Paradise Squat
18. Paradise Squat
19. U.F.O.
20. Like a Ship at Sea
21. Bunny
22. Tippin' on the Q.T. [Alternate Take]
23. Tippin' on the Q.T.
24. Blee Blop Blues
25. Cash Box [Alternate Take]
26. Cash Box
27. Bootsie [Alternate Take]
28. Bootsie
29. Tom Whaley
30. Blues for the Count and Oscar [Alternate Take]
31. Blues for the Count and Oscar
32. Be My Guest
33. You're Not the Kind
34. Extended Blues
35. Let Me Dream
36. Sent for You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today)
37. Goin' to Chicago
38. I Want a Little Girl
39. Oh, Lady Be Good
40. Song of the Islands
41. Basie Beat
42. She's Funny That Way
43. Count's Organ Blues
44. K.C. Organ Blues
45. Blue and Sentimental
46. Stan Shorthair
47. As Long as I Live
48. Royal Garden Blues
49. Plymouth Rock
50. Blues Go Away!
51. Peace Pipe
52. Straight Life
53. Bubbles
54. Softly With Feeling
55. Cherry Point
56. Basie Goes Wess
57. Right On
58. Blues Done Come Back
59. Slow But Sure
60. You for Me
61. She's Just My Size
62. Soft Drink
63. Two for the Blues
64. Blues Backstage
65. I Feel Like a New Man
66. Down for the Count
67. Stereophonic
68. Sixteen Men Swinging
69. Ska-Di-De-Dee-Doo
70. Perdido
71. Mambo Mist
72. Eventide
73. Two Franks

74. Ain't Misbehavin'
75. Rails
76. Every Day I Have the Blues
77. Comeback
78. Alright, O.K., You Win
79. (In the Evening) When the Sun Goes Down
80. April in Paris
81. April in Paris [Alternate Take]
82. Corner Pocket [Alternate Take]
83. Corner Pocket
84. Did'n You? [Alternate Take]
85. Did'n You?
86. Teach Me Tonight
87. Please Send Me Someone to Love
88. My Baby Upsets Me
89. Ev'ry Day I Fall in Love
90. Roll 'Em Pete
91. Sweetie Cakes
92. Smack Dab in the Middle
93. Shiny Stockings
94. What Am I Here For? [Alternate Take]
95. What Am I Here For?
96. Magic [Alternate Take]
97. Magic [Alternate Take]
98. Magic
99. Midgits
100. Midgits [Alternate Take]
101. Amazing Love
102. Only Forever
103. Stop Pretty Baby, Stop
104. Mambo Inn
105. Big Red
106. Dinner With Friends
107. Blues Inside Out
108. Dolphin Dip
109. Flute Juice
110. Lady in Lace
111. Stompin' and Jumpin'
112. Trick or Treat
113. Move
114. As I Love You
115. Stop! Don't!
116. Oink
117. I'm Beginning to See the Light [Mono TK]
118. I'm Beginning to See the Light [Stereo TK]
119. Our Love Is Here to Stay
120. Fine Romance
121. Nevertheless
122. Singin' in the Rain
123. There Will Never Be Another You
124. My Baby Just Cares for Me
125. 'S Wonderful
126. This Can't Be Love
127. Come Rain or Come Shine
128. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
129. Thou Swell
130. April in Paris
131. Too Close for Comfort
132. Every Day I Have the Blues
133. Party Blues
134. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
135. Low Life
136. Slats
137. Lollypop [Alternate Take]
138. Lollypop
139. Too Close for Comfort
140. One O'Clock Jump [45 TK]
141. One O'Clock Jump [LP TK]
142. Basie's Back in Town
143. From Coast to Coast
144. Jamboree
145. I Don't Like You No More
146. One O'Clock Jump

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The Complete Clef/Verve Count Basie Fifties Studio Recordings by Count Basie on CD

The eight CDs that make up this collection document the second rise of Count Basie's big band. The second band had been created at the urging of Billy Eckstine, who convinced Basie that even though the era of the large jazz-swing orchestra -- an era he was an architect of -- was by all appearances over, he could make a real go of it with his brand of blues and swing. Basie was initially skeptical, but agreed when he was offered other supporting opinions from the likes of Norman Granz and Willard Alexander. He set out to create an orchestra that was not as susceptible to personnel changes, and initially featured the charts of Neal Hefti and Nat Pierce, and later those of Frank Foster and Johnny Mandel, among others. The band began recording for Clef in 1952. They recorded for Verve during the same period, and issued a few sides for Mercury as well; all in the space of five years, until 1957. Paul Quinichette emerged as an outstanding soloist in this band, as did Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Marshall Royal, Frank Foster, and Thad Jones. It also marks the period when Joe Williams began his tenure as vocalist with the Count. The 146 recordings here, on The Complete Clef/Verve Count Basie Fifties Studio Recordings, include the A- and B-sides of 16 EPs, most of which were taken from three 10" LPs and 17 long-players, as well as from extended-version CDs. In addition to the complete issued recordings there are seven previously released alternate takes. Sound is reproduced to a very high standard -- especially given the source limitations of some of the masters. Furthermore, the extensive liner notes are typical of Mosaic's excellence, and were written by Chris Albertson. This one is limited to 10,000 copies. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Artist: Count Basie
Format: CD
Year: 2005
UPC: 602498820254
Item Number: MSI882025
Release date: 05/15/2011

Label: Mosaic
Genre: Jazz
Style: Jazz Blues, Piano Blues
Album Type: "Best of..." / "Greatest Hits", Box set, "Best of..." / "Greatest Hits", Instrumental, Box set

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