Description
Title: Swinging, Singing, Playing
Artist: Count Basie
Label: Mack Avenue Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 673203104822
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2009-08-25
Number of Discs: 1
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.
Tracks:
1.1 Too Close for Comfort
1.2 Giant Blues Flag Waver
1.3 Like Young
1.4 Jessica”s Day
1.5 Blame It on My Youth
1.6 Close Your Eyes
1.7 Naiomi”s Blues
1.8 Yesterdays
1.9 I Have Waited So Long
1.10 Dark Morning
1.11 Blues on Mack Avenue
