Count Basie: Dickie's Dream
Track
Dickie's Dream
Group
Count Basie's Kansas City Seven
CD
The Lester Young Story (Proper Box 8)
Musicians:
Count Basie (piano), Buck Clayton (trumpet), Dickie Wells (trombone), Lester Young (tenor sax), Freddie Green (guitar), Walter Page (bass), Jo Jones (drums).
Composed by Count Basie & Lester Young
.Recorded: New York, September 5, 1939
Rating: 96/100 (learn more)
Four days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland to kick off World War II, Count Basie's Kansas City Seven invaded a New York record studio with less earthshaking but still memorable results. After a simple, twice- repeated 8-bar riff, the K.C. 7 casually tosses the ball around like minimalists at a picnic. (Tip: BYO every- thing.) There are genial solos from a cup-muted Clayton, bubbly Wells, light-fingered Basie and, best of all, the saxophonist honored annually on President's Day (third Monday of February). The world at large may've been determinedly hell-bent, but Lester Young kept his cool when all about were losing theirs.
Reviewer: Alan Kurtz
Tags: 1930s jazz · kansas city jazz · trombone
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