Count Basie - Basie & Friends (1988)

Tracklist

01. Easy Does It (3:37)
02. Zoot (4:09)
03. Love Me Or Leave Me (5:18)
05. She's Funny That Way (4:33)
06. Turnaround (4:23)
07. Madame Fitz (5:01)
08. Royal Garden Blues (4:16)
09. Sweet Lorraine (7:17)

personnel :

Count Basie - piano, organ
Freddie Green - guitar
Oscar Peterson - piano, organ
Louie Bellson - drums
Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - bass
Ray Brown - bass
John Heard - bass

This is a hodgepodge collection focusing on Basie's piano-playing from four different sessions. Five selections find him in trios while the other three numbers are meetings with Oscar Peteson during which they both double on organ. All of these performances are unavailable elsewhere and are enjoyable if not too unique.~Scott Yanow