Count Basie – The Complete Decca Recordings (3CD) (1992)

Μία εξαιρετική συλλογή που περιλαμβάνει ηχογραφήσεις του Count Basie, στην δισκογραφική εταιρία Decca Recordings. Τοποθετείται χρονικά μεταξύ 1937 και 1939. Οι ενορχηστρώσεις είναι εκ των πλείστων big band και αυτό είναι λίγο αποθαρρυντικό για τους μη σκληροπυρηνικούς φίλους μας…

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Disc 1 (1937)

1. Honeysuckle Rose

2. Pennies From Heaven

3. Swinging at the Daisy Chain

4. Roseland Shuffle

5. Exactly Like You

6. Boo Hoo

7. Glory of Love, The

8. Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)

9. Smarty (You Know It All)

10. One O'Clock Jump

11. Listen My Children and You Shall Hear

12. John's Idea

13. Good Morning Blues - (take 1)

14. Good Morning Blues - (take 2)

15. Our Love Was Meant to Be

16. Time Out

17. Topsy

18. I Keep Remembering

19. Out the Window

20. Don't You Miss Your Baby

21. Let Me Dream

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Disc 2 (1938)

1. Georgianna

2. Blues in the Dark

3. Sent For You Yesterday

4. Every Tub

5. Now Will You Be Good?

6. Swingin' the Blues

7. Mama Don't Want No Peas 'N Rice 'N' Coconut Oil

8. Blue and Sentimental

9. Doggin' Around

10. Stop Beatin' Round the Mulberry Bush - (take 1)

11. Stop Beatin' Round the Mulberry Bush - (take 2)

12. London Bridge Is Falling Down

13. Texas Shuffle

14. Jumpin' at the Woodside

15. How Long Blues

16. Dirty Dozens, The

17. Hey Lawdy Mama

18. Fives, The

19. Boogie Woogie

20. Dark Rapture

21. Shorty George

22. Blues I Like to Hear, The

23. Do You Wanna Jump, Children?

24. Panassie Stomp

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Disc 3 (1939)

1. My Heart Belongs to Daddy

2. Sing For Your Supper

3. Oh! Red

4. Fare Thee Honey, Fare Thee Well - (take 1)

5. Fare Thee Honey, Fare Thee Well - (take 2)

6. Dupree Blues

7. When the Sun Goes Down - (take 1)

8. When the Sun Goes Down - (take 2)

9. Red Wagon

10. You Can Depend on Me

11. Cherokee - (part 1)

12. Cherokee - (part 2)

13. Blame It on My Last Affair - (take 1)

14. Blame It on My Last Affair - (take 2)

15. Jive at Five

16. Thursday

17. Evil Blues

18. Oh, Lady Be Good

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Μουσικοί:
Walter Page (μπάσο), Herschel Evans, Lester Young (κλαρινέτο, τενόρο σαξόφωνο), Jo Jones (drums), Claude Williams, Freddie Green (κιθάρα), Count Basie (πιάνο), Caughey Roberts, Earle Warren (άλτο σαξόφωνο), Jack Washington (άλτο σαξόφωνο, βαρύτονο σαξόφωνο), Chu Berry (τενόρο σαξόφωνο), Benny Moten, Dan Minor, Dickie Wells, George Hunt (Τρομπόνι), Eddie Durham (Τρομπόνι, κιθάρα), Bobby Moore, Buck Clayton, Carl Smith, Ed Lewis, Harry Edison, Joe Keyes, Karl George, Shad Collins (τρομπέτα), Earle Warren, Helen Humes, Jimmy Rushing (Φωνητικά)

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