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COUNT BASIE & HIS ATOMIC BAND

COMPLETE LIVE AT THE CRESCENDO 1958 (5CD) (LTD)
Label PHONO
Catalog 870245
Format CD
Discs 5
Category JAZZ/BLUES/COUNTRY
Street Date 2016-03-14
Description
DELUXE 5CD BOX SET. LIMITED EDITION. 24 BIT DIGITALLY REMASTERED INCLUDES 20-PAGE BOOKLET WITH RARE PHOTOS FULL DISCOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION UPDATED LINER NOTES & A COMPLETE RARE 1958 COUNT BASIE INTERVIEW!
This superb 5-CD collection compiles all existing live recordings made by the Atomic band at the Crescendo Club in Hollywood in the summer of 1958 for the first time ever on a single edition. The sound quality is excellent throughout the set. Count Basie’s career was revived in late 1957 thanks to the success of the Neal Hefti-arranged LP Atomic Basie which became one of his biggest hits. The orchestra was filled with stars and Joe Williams’ vocals were heard to great effect supported by Hefti’s excellent scores and the superb quality of the band. This long unavailable material includes amazing extended live versions of many of the perennial Hefti arrangements plus a variety of songs that formed part of the orchestra’s repertoire at the time and Sammy Davis Jr. as a guest star singing with the band on Ray Charles’ “Hallelujah I Love Her So”. As a bonus we have added the soundtrack from a complete 17-minute TV show featuring the same band shortly before it started the Crescendo engagement. Our comprehensive booklet contains detailed information as well as a rare Count Basie interview published in Down Beat during the band’s stay at the Crescendo.

COUNT BASIE and His ORCHESTRA
Thad Jones Snooky Young Wendell Culley Joe Newman (tp) Benny Powell Henry Coker Al Grey (tb) Frank Wess (as ts fl) Marshall Royal (as cl) Billy Mitchell (ts) Frank Foster (ts) Charlie Fowlkes (bar) Count Basie (p) Freddie Green (g) Eddie Jones (b) Sonny Payne (d).
All vocals by Joe Williams with the exception of “Hallelujah I Love Her So” on which Sammy Davis Jr. is the guest vocalist.
All tracks recorded live at the Crescendo Club Los Angeles June 24-July 2 1958.

*BONUS TRACKS: CD5 10-15: Same personnel. NBC-TV Cast “Bobby Troup’s Stars of Jazz” Los Angeles June 23 1958.
tracklisting
CD1
1. MOTEN SWING #1
2. CUTE #1
3. SWEETIE CAKES
4. INDIAN SUMMER
5. JUMPIN’ AT THE WOODSIDE #1
6. PLYMOUTH ROCK #1
7. FLIGHT OF THE FOO BIRDS
8. LI’L DARLING #1
9. LOW LIFE
10. WHIRLY-BIRD #1
11. SWINGIN’ THE BLUES
12. BLUE ON BLUE #1
13. NO MOON AT ALL
14. WELL ALL RIGHT OKAY YOU WIN
15. FANCY MEETING YOU
16. SLATS
17. H.R.H. [HER ROYAL HIGHNESS] #1
18. DUET
19. TEDDY THE TOAD #1

CD2
1. SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE
2. PENSIVE MISS
3. ONE O’CLOCK JUMP #1
4. COUNTING THE BLUES
5. LULLABY OF BIRDLAND
6. I’VE GOT A GIRL
7. YOU’RE A MEMORY
8. SCOOT
9. WHO ME?
10. THE KID FROM RED BANK #1
11. LATE DATE
12. STOP PRETTY BABY
13. GEE BABY AIN’T I GOOD TO YOU
14. SHINY STOCKINGS #1
15. APRIL IN PARIS
16. BLUES IN FRANKIE’S FLAT
17. IN A MELLOW TONE #1
18. TWO TIME LOVER
19. FANTAIL
20. HALLELUJAH I LOVE HER SO

CD3
1. CORNER POCKET #1
2. MY BABY UPSETS ME
3. CHERRY POINT
4. EVERY DAY
5. HOW HIGH THE MOON #1
6. FIVE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING
7. BLUE ON BLUE #2
8. THE COMEBACK
9. WHIRLY-BIRD #2
10. THOU SWELL
11. TEACH ME TONIGHT
12. MOTEN SWING #2
13. PIGALLE LOVE
14. ONE O’CLOCK JUMP #2
15. G’WAN AWAY
16. YOGI [aka YOHL]
17. BAG-A-BONES #1
18. ONE O’CLOCK JUMP #3
19. SPRING IS HERE #1
20. BABY BABY ALL THE TIME

CD4
1. LITTLE PONY #1
2. OL’ MAN RIVER #1
3. THE MIDGETS
4. WHIRLY-BIRD #3
5. BASIE-BOOGIE
6. THE DEACON
7. CUTE #2
8. OL’ MAN RIVER #2
9. THE KID FROM RED BANK #2
10. SPRING IS HERE #2
11. WHY NOT?
12. CORNER POCKET #2
13. LITTLE PONY #2
14. BLEE BLOP BLUES
15. BUBBLES
16. HOW HIGH THE MOON #2
17. YOU’RE NOT THE KIND

CD5
1. TEDDY THE TOAD #2
2. JUMPIN’ AT THE WOODSIDE #2
3. BLUES BACKSTAGE
4. PEACE PIPE
5. PLYMOUTH ROCK #2
6. SHINY STOCKINGS #2
7. H.R.H. [HER ROYAL HIGHNESS] #2
8. BAG-A-BONES #2
9. IN A MELLOW TONE #2
10. WHIRLY-BIRD *
11. CUTE *
12. THOU SWELL *
13. FIVE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING *
14. BLEE BLOP BLUES *
15. ONE O’CLOCK JUMP *
 

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