Count Basie - Count Basie: Hits & Rarities (2022)

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Title: Count Basie: Hits & Rarities
Year Of Release: 2022
Label: UMG Recordings, Inc.
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3
Total Time: 4:19:13
Total Size: 1.4 GB / 612 MB
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Tracklist:

01. One O'Clock Jump
02. Basie Land
03. Jamboree
04. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
05. Help
06. I Won't Cry Anymore
07. All Of Me
08. Singin' In The Rain
09. Lullabye For Jolie
10. Come Rain Or Shine
11. Belly Roll
12. My Baby Just Cares For Me
13. Stereophonic
14. I Worry 'Bout You
15. Thou Swell
16. A Fine Romance
17. I Got Rhythm
18. This Can't Be Love
19. Stop! Don't!
20. Wanderlust
21. Sunday
22. Peace Pipe
23. Gymnastics
24. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
25. I Don't Like You No More
26. Honeysuckle Rose
27. Don't Go To Strangers
28. Stompin' & Jumpin'
29. Redhead
30. 'Deed I Do
31. It's Only A Paper Moon
32. Hold Me Tight
33. Two For The Blues
34. Volare
35. Dum Dum
36. Right On
37. Ain't No Use
38. Michelle
39. My Kind Of Town
40. She Loves You
41. Come Rain Or Come Shine
42. Tom Whaley
43. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
44. Bread
45. Oh Lonesome Me
46. There Will Never Be Another You
47. And I Love Her
48. Do You Want To Know A Secret
49. Jack And Jill
50. All My Loving
51. K.C. Organ Blues
52. Boone's Blues
53. Sixteen Men Swinging
54. Too Close For Comfort
55. I Feel Like A New Man
56. Sure Thing
57. Blues For The Count And Oscar
58. Teach Me Tonight
59. Fawncy Meetin' You
60. Tippin' On The Q.T.
61. Yesterday
62. Soft Drink
63. Exodus
64. Softly, With Feeling
65. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
66. Royal Garden Blues
67. U.F.O.
68. Stop, Pretty Baby, Stop
69. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
70. Blee Blop Blues
71. Lollypop
72. Bunny
73. Dolphin Dip
74. Sent For You Yesterday And Here You Come Today
75. You For Me
76. No Name (78 Take)
77. No Name
78. St. Thomas
79. Ain't Misbehavin'
80. Gone Again
81. Rabble Rouser
82. Tea For Two
83. Sassy
84. I'll Get By
85. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
86. That's All
87. Basie's Back In Town
88. Bootsie
89. Satin Doll
90. You're Not The Kind
91. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall

Count Basie was among the most important bandleaders of the swing era. With the exception of a brief period in the early '50s, he led a big band from 1935 until his death almost 50 years later, and the band continued to perform after he died. Basie's orchestra was characterized by a light, swinging rhythm section that he led from the piano, lively ensemble work, and generous soloing. Basie was not a composer like Duke Ellington or an important soloist like Benny Goodman. His instrument was his band, which was considered the epitome of swing and became broadly influential on jazz.

Both of Basie's parents were musicians; his father, Harvie Basie, played the mellophone, and his mother, Lillian (Childs) Basie, was a pianist who gave her son his earliest lessons. Basie also learned from Harlem stride pianists, particularly Fats Waller. His first professional work came accompanying vaudeville performers, and he was part of a troupe that broke up in Kansas City in 1927, leaving him stranded there. He stayed in the Midwestern city, at first working in a silent movie house and then joining Walter Page's Blue Devils in July 1928. The band's vocalist was Jimmy Rushing. Basie left in early 1929 to play with other bands, eventually settling into one led by Bennie Moten. Upon Moten's untimely death on April 2, 1935, Basie worked as a soloist before leading a band initially called the Barons of Rhythm. Many former members of the Moten band joined this nine-piece outfit, among them Walter Page (bass), Freddie Green (guitar), Jo Jones (drums), and Lester Young (tenor saxophone). Jimmy Rushing became the singer. The band gained a residency at the Reno Club in Kansas City and began broadcasting on the radio, an announcer dubbing the pianist "Count" Basie.