Roosevelt Jazz Band - Europe Live Montreux '14 (2014)

Tracklist

01. Flirtibird (Live)
02. Like Someone in Love (Live)
03. Boplicity (Live)
04. Hang Gliding (Live)
05. Big Dipper (Live)
06. Perdido (Live)
07. Fantazm (Live)
08. On Green Dolphin Street (Live)
09. Flight of the Foo Birds (Live)
10. Dissonance in Blues (Live)
11. Moten Swing (Live)

Since before I began directing the Jazz Band at Roosevelt High School, some thirty years ago, the live album of the Count Basie Band, ‘Montreux ‘77’, has been revered as a ‘must have’ recording for every Roosevelt Jazz Band musician. All the tunes, nuances, solos, and even Count Basie’s announcements, have been committed to memory and replication by literally hundreds of Roosevelt Jazz musicians over the years. Everything is so exaggerated; it’s really not typical of most Basie recordings. ‘Kind of like Basie….on steroids. That makes it just perfect for teaching jazz concepts and swing, to young musicians!

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