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Count Basie - The Chronological Classics: 1952 '2003

The Chronological Classics: 1952
ArtistCount Basie Related artists
Album name The Chronological Classics: 1952
Country
Date 2003
GenreJazz
Play time 70:05
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 226 MB(+3\%)
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Tracks list

Tracklist

01. New Basie Blues (3:26)
02. Sure Thing (3:03)
03. Why Not (3:31)
04. Fawncy Meeting You (3:04)
05. Jive at Five (3:11)
06. No Name (3:10)
07. Redhead (2:52)
08. Every Tub (2:51)
09. Jack and Jill (2:55)
10. Bread (2:53)
11. Theres a Small Hotel (3:33)
12. Hob Nail Boogie (2:35)
13. Basie Talks (3:39)
14. Paradise Squat (3:39)
15. U.F.O. (3:05)
16. Like a Ship at Sea (3:38)
17. Bunny (3:09)
18. Tippin on the Q.T. (3:06)
19. Blee Blop Blues (3:04)
20. Cash Box (3:24)
21. Bootsie (3:22)
22. Tom Whaley (2:55) 

This solid entry in the Classics Chronological Series contains all of the titles
recorded by Count Basie and his orchestra between January 17 and July 25, 1952,
a period during which this band was signed to Norman Granzs Clef record label.
Basie, who had been forced to scale his group down to septet and octet
dimensions for more than a year beginning in 1950, had begun recording with a
powerful new 16-piece unit in April of 1951. Nine months on, this ensemble was
well on the way to virtually redefining the art of big-band jazz. Input from
arranger/composers Sy Oliver, Buster Harding, and Neal Hefti add a luster to the
proceedings that cannot be diminished by the passage of time. Key participants
include trumpeters Joe Newman and Charlie Shavers, trombonist Jimmy Wilkins, and
reedmen Marshall Royal, Ernie Wilkins, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, and Paul
Quinichette, whose Lester Young impersonations were positively uncanny. Small
wonder that Pres suffered from an identity crisis on hearing his style
replicated so deliberately right there in the reed section of an orchestra led
by the same man in whose band he, Lester Young, had developed that style 15
years earlier. Quinichette sounds wonderful. He sounds like Lester Young.

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