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Count Basie: Cheek to Cheek (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music December 31, 07

Count Basie did not have a pleasant 1949. He'd already disbanded, put together a new group, and was scraping for gigs...

Count Basie (featuring Lester Young): Oh, Lady Be Good (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

A sort of dry run for the recently signed, but not-yet-recorded Count Basie Orchestra, the “Jones-Smith” session unle...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

Count Basie & Joe Williams: All Right, OK, You Win (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 05, 08

From 1967-1987, Sooner State license plates bore the legend "Oklahoma is OK." This less-than-ringing endorsement was ...

Count Basie: One O'Clock Jump (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

With his customary sparse piano, wily Bill B. sets the stage for this easygoing anthem of the Swing Era. Big-toned te...

Count Basie: Dance of the Gremlins (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

As evidenced throughout "Dance of the Gremlins," Jo Jones was the undisputed king of maintaining a swinging hi-hat pu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HISTORIC RHYTHM SECTIONS

            The Rhythm Section, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Count Basie (featuring Lester Young): Oh, Lady Be Good (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

Swing Era rhythm sections specialized in a monotonous thumping not unlike men with flyswatters beating determinedly o...

Count Basie Orchestra (featuring Jack Washington): Somebody Stole My Gal (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 22, 08

Jack Washington stands with Harry Carney as one of the first featured baritone saxophonists in jazz. Performing in Be...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSENTIAL BARITONE SAX PERFORMANCES

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Count Basie & Joe Williams: Every Day I Have the Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

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Will Matthews: Count On Swingin' (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music July 30, 09

In 1996 Will Matthews joined the Count Basie Orchestra, taking over the chair of the late Freddie Green, who had been...

Count Basie: The M Squad Theme (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Count Basie, photo by Herb Snitzer Pound for pound, the toughest 1950s TV cop was Lt. Frank Ballinger of Chicago...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: CRIME JAZZ

Film scholar David Butler reckons that by the early 1950s movie jazz had become "a convenient way to impart specific ...

Count Basie: Blue and Sentimental (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

A year before his untimely death from heart disease at age 29, "tough Texas" tenorman Herschel Evans revealed his gen...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS

    Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...

Count Basie: Michelle (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 06, 08

"Michelle" is one of Paul McCartney's many love songs, but the chromatic movement in the melody and descending guitar...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ PERSPECTIVES ON THE BEATLES

During the 1960s, jazz became more stylistically diverse than ever. Conventional norms were assertively challen...

Count Basie: Li'l Darlin' (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

The “New Testament” Basie band that began during the 1950s retained all the buoyant swing of the early group from the...

Count Basie: Do You Want to Know a Secret? (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Jazz in the 1950s survived Elvis by ignoring him. Miles Davis did not apply his moody Harmon mute to "Heartbreak Hote...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING

Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...

Count Basie (with Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams): Teach Me Tonight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 27, 07

Vaughan and Basie were regulars at the jazz club Birdland on Broadway in New York City; Williams was still the vocali...

Maria Schneider: Bird Count (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 08

Maria Schneider wrote "Bird Count," a tribute to Parker and Basie, while still at Eastman School of Music over 25 yea...

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Count Basie & His Orchestra: Exactly Like You (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 04, 09

“Exactly Like You” has been a jam session staple for years, but when Count Basie recorded it on his second Decca sess...

Billie Holiday (with Count Basie): They Can't Take That Away From Me (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

Count Basie featured three singers with his band on this June 30, 1937 live broadcast from Harlem's famous Savoy Bal...

Count Basie: Dickie's Dream (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

Four days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland to kick off World War II, Count Basie's Kansas City Seven invaded a New Y...

Count Basie: Kilimanjaro (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 14, 08

In the early '70s, big bands were not so fashionable. During the mid-'60s, Count Basie even ventured far from his usu...

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