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Count Basie Orchestra
Swinging Singing Playing
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Too Close For Comfort
2. Giant Blues Flag Waiver
3. Like Young
4. Jessica's Day
5. Blame It On My Youth
6. Close Your Eyes
7. Naimoi's Blues
8. Yesterdays
9. I Have Waited So Long
10. Dark Morning
11. Blues On Mack Avenue

CD Details

All Artists: Count Basie Orchestra
Title: Swinging Singing Playing
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Mack Avenue
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 8/25/2009
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Style: Swing Jazz
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 673203104822

Synopsis

Product Description

SWINGING, SINGING, PLAYING: The Count Basie Orchestra Salutes The Jazz Masters. The present version of the Count Basie Orchestra is a skilled interpreter of the enviable Basie legacy. This brand new recording features a first rate assemblage of players: singers Nnenna Freelon and Janis Siegel; young English singer/pianist Jamie Cullum; vocal legend Jon Hendricks; pianists Hank Jones and Geri Allen; Rufus Reid on bass; Basie veterans Frank Wess on flute, Butch Miles on drums and Curtis Fuller on trombone. Conducted and arranged by the Grammy®-nominated Dennis Wilson.

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CD Reviews

Does this comply with the CB legacy?

Spectator | 11/16/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I honestly acknowledge the great effort Dennis Wilson has made in producing this record. The result however is - at least to me - disappointing. May be someone who has passed his sixties still clings too much to the old Basie slogan 'Swing it man and you can't miss'. And this is exactly what is missing: Freddie Greens guitar, John Claytons bass and the Count on piano. To me the perfect arrangements are just too modern and the Basie groove is absolutely unpresent. Consequently I like 'Jessica's Day' (the old Quincy Jones composition and arrangement) best. May be Dennis Wilson has not spent enough time in the original Basie orchestra to inhale the Basie spirit.Or may be I am just too much pretending about old times..."