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Painted & polished, Count Basie reopens News Transcript, NJ - Dec 2, 2008 BY SHARON LEFF Staff Writer While some people spent the summer months down the shore or by the pool, work crews at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank spent ...

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Bennett, Basie Band Still "Swingin" TheShowBuzz, NY - Dec 1, 2008 Now, 40 years later, Bennett has teamed up with the Count Basie Big Band for a new collection of holiday classics in an album titled "A Swingin' Christmas. ...

Interview: Benny Powell (Part 2) All About Jazz, PA - Dec 04,2008 Charlie Fowlkes [pictured] was in that orchestra and told me that Count Basie was organizing a new big band. This was just after Basie had his small group ...

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Sinatra at the Sands

Not much to say other than classic mid-career Sinatra. If you love the guy's work you buy this.

Tracks:
    1. Come Fly With Me
    2. I've Got A Crush On You
    3. I've Got You Under My Skin
    4. The Shadow Of Your Smile
    5. Street Of Dreams
    6. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
    7. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
    8. One O'clock Jump
    9. Frank Sinatra Monologue
    10. You Make Me Feel So Young
    11. All Of Me
    12. The September Of My Years
    13. Luck Be A Lady
    14. Get Me To The Church On Time
    15. It Was A Very Good Year
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It Might as Well Be Swing

Aside from the "Fly Me to the Moon" selection being the greatest rendition of this song in the history of music, one cannot call oneself a Sinatra aficionado without this CD album in their collection. Count Basie and Frank at the peak of their powers is a most fantastic musical joy.

Tracks:
    1. Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra, Howard, Bart
    2. I Wish You Love - Frank Sinatra, Beach, Albert
    3. I Believe in You - Frank Sinatra, Loesser, Frank
    4. More - Frank Sinatra, Ciorciolini, Marcel
    5. I Can't Stop Loving You - Frank Sinatra, Gibson, Don
    6. Hello, Dolly! - Frank Sinatra, Herman, Jerry
    7. I Wanna Be Around - Frank Sinatra, Mercer, Johnny
    8. The Best Is Yet to Come - Frank Sinatra, Coleman, Cy
    9. The Good Life - Frank Sinatra, Distel, Sacha
    10. Wives and Lovers - Frank Sinatra, Bacharach, Burt

Count Basie's Finest Hour

This is Count Basie at his finest hour!! Great Songs, great tunes, great arrangements and they are having fun doing it. You can just feel it. This was when bands were truely great. Pick this up for a blast from the past and one of the greatest bandmasters!!

The Time Keeper

Tracks:
    1. One O'Clock Jump
    2. Topsy
    3. Every Tub
    4. Swingin' The Blues
    5. Blues Backstage
    6. Eventide
    7. April In Paris
    8. Corner Pocket
    9. Shiny Stockings
    10. All Of Me
    11. The Second Time Around
    12. Li'l Ol' Groovemaker...Basie
    13. Count Me In
    14. Doodle-Oodle
    15. Li'l Darlin'
    16. Broadway

Jazz Icons: Count Basie Live in '62

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The Jazz Icons series does a great service by preserving for us an important part of American musical heritage. I've been a Basie fan for a long time, and had the opportunity to see the band perform a couple of times with the Count at the helm, so I may be biased, but I think the Basie DVD is the best one of the series that I've seen so far. It features some of the Count's legendary sidemen. To name just a few: Frank Wess and Frank Foster in the sax section, Thad Jones and Snooky Young on trumpet, Sonny Payne on drums, and of course, Freddie Green on guitar.

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