Product Code: BH6 605
Artist: Count Basie ‎
Origin: USA
Label: Blue Heaven Records
Format: LP
Availability: In Stock
Condition:
Cover: VG+
Record: NM (M-)
Genre: Jazz U

Rock A Bye Basie

Very smart vinyl with a good cover still in shrink.

These broadcasts (all but one selection from 1938-39) capture Count Basie's orchestra live from the Famous Door. This CD contains 24 performances, a few of which are incomplete or poorly recorded. However, the enthusiastic solos of Lester Young, fellow tenors Herschel Evans and Buddy Tate, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and Basie himself are fresh and creative, and the ensembles are consistently swinging. These are the best pre-World War II live recordings of the Count Basie Orchestra and well worth acquiring.