The Count Basie Orchestra - Basically Basie (Studio Dates 1937-1945)

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Artist: The Count Basie Orchestra
Title: Basically Basie (Studio Dates 1937-1945)
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: JSP Records
Genre: Jazz, Swing
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, log, Artwork)
Total Time: 5:00:40
Total Size: 581.8 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD1 (74:30)

01. Swinging at the Daisy Chain (2:53)
02. One O'Clock Jump (3:04)
03. John's Idea (2:57)
04. Time Out (3:05)
05. Topsy (3:15)
06. Out of the Window (2:51)
07. Every Tub (3:17)
08. Swingin' the Blues (2:48)
09. Blue and Sentimental (3:14)
10. Doggin' Around (3:05)
11. Texas Shuffle (3:10)
12. Jumpin' at the Woodside (3:11)
13. Panassie Stomp (2:50)
14. Lady Be Good (3:14)
15. Taxi War Dance (2:52)
16. Volcano (2:51)
17. Ham 'n' Eggs (2:35)
18. Moten Swing (2:22)
19. Love Jumped Out (3:12)
20. Wiggle Woggie (2:40)
21. Music Makers (2:44)
22. Jitters (2:45)
23. Down, Down, Down (3:02)
24. Diggin' for Dex (3:09)
25. Taps Miller (3:24)

CD2 (76:43)

01. Honeysuckle Rose (3:01)
02. Roseland Shuffle (2:36)
03. Smarty (2:44)
04. Shorty George (2:47)
05. Cherokee: Part 1 (3:14)
06. Cherokee: Part 2 (3:07)
07. The Apple Jump (2:37)
08. I Never Knew (2:42)
09. Tickle Toe (2:41)
10. Louisiana (2:28)
11. Easy Does It (3:29)
12. Let Me See (2:48)
13. Gone with "What" Wind? (2:49)
14. Superchief (3:26)
15. The World Is Mad: Part 1 (2:41)
16. The World Is Mad: Part 2 (2:52)
17. Five O'Clock Whistle (3:03)
18. Broadway (2:58)
19. Rockin' the Blues (3:10)
20. Beau Brummel (3:01)
21. Jump the Blues Away (2:58)
22. 9.20 Special (3:09)
23. Fiesta in Blue (3:07)
24. Somethin' New (2:51)
25. Feather Merchant (2:54)
26. Ain't That the Truth? (3:30)

CD3 (74:19)

01. Evenin' (2:52)
02. Pennies from Heaven (3:04)
03. Exactly Like You (2:44)
04. Boogie Woogie (2:53)
05. Listen, My Children (3:09)
06. Good Mornin' Blues (3:16)
07. Georgianna (2:36)
08. Sent for You Yesterday (2:59)
09. Mama Don't Want No Peas an' Rice an' Coconut Oil (2:54)
10. Stop Beatin' Around the Mulberry Bush (3:03)
11. My Heart Belongs to Daddy (2:58)
12. You Can Depend on Me (3:11)
13. Thursday (3:08)
14. Goin' to Chicago (3:10)
15. If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight) (3:03)
16. Bolero at the Savoy (2:53)
17. Sub Deb Blues (3:00)
18. Nobody Knows (2:48)
19. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2:36)
20. Someday Sweetheart (2:43)
21. Somebody Stole My Girl (2:55)
22. I Want a Little Girl (2:41)
23. My Wanderin' Man (3:07)
24. Harvard Blues (3:21)
25. Rusty Dusty Blues (3:15)

CD4 (75:12)

01. Shoeshine Boy (3:02)
02. Lady Be Good (3:09)
03. How Long Blues (2:58)
04. The Dirty Dozens (3:05)
05. Hey! Lawdy Mama (2:48)
06. The Fives (2:49)
07. Boogie Woogie (3:05)
08. Oh Red (2:57)
09. Fare Thee Honey, Fare Thee Well (3:08)
10. Dupree Blues (3:08)
11. When the Sun Goes Down (2:49)
12. Red Wagon (2:56)
13. Jive at Five (2:52)
14. I Ain't Got Nobody (2:59)
15. Live and Love Tonight (3:07)
16. Love Me or Leave Me (2:35)
17. Dickie's Dream (3:10)
18. Lester Leaps In (3:14)
19. Till Tom Special (3:03)
20. Gone with "What" Wind? (3:16)
21. Royal Garden Blues (3:08)
22. Bugle Blues (2:23)
23. Sugar Blues (2:57)
24. Farewell Blues (3:17)
25. Cafe Society Blues (3:17)

Bill Basie was born in 1904 in Red Bank, New Jersey. He'd had some piano tuition when, a teenager, he met Fats Waller. The same age as Basie, Fats was already known as a titan of stride piano. Under Waller's tutelage young Basie's progress was sufficient for him to deputize for Fats when gigs clashed. Soon Basie was a Rent Party regular. He joined a vaudeville troupe. In 1927, in Kansas City, illness forced Basie to quit. He decided to stay and joined Walter Page's Blue Devils. By 1930 Basie was with Bennie Moten, with whom he made his earliest recordings - his solos on the sizzling Toby and Lafayette show Fats' influence. He sang on Moten's, Somebody Stole My Gal - which Jimmy Rushing would later record with the Basie Orchestra. Basie had left the Moten band, when in April 1935, the leader died. Basie assumed leadership and found a residency at The Reno Club. Tenorman Lester Young joined Basie in 1936. Having worked from childhood in his father's band, Young spent his teens in the South West, with 'King' Oliver, then with the bands of Art Bronson, Andy Kirk and George E. Lee. He then replaced Coleman Hawkins in Fletcher Henderson's band. His light, airy tone did not find favour there, so joining Basie was an easy call. The Basie personnel included trumpeter Carl 'Tatti' Smith and Joe Keyes. Both Texas born, Dan Minor and Eddie Durham were on trombone. With bassist Walter Page and drummer Jesse Price, this was substantially the band heard on radio by jazz fanatic, John Hammond, who arranged for the Orchestra to work its way to New York. Hammond found that Basie's contract with Decca was pretty ungenerous. He organised a session at Vocalion, using a small group from the orchestra. Those performances are included here. Count Basie once said: ...a band can really swing when it swings easy. When it can play along like...cutting butter. He remembered his musicians as ...a great bunch... any success we had is due entirely to the grand spirit among us.

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