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Count Basie

Title: The Band of Distinction (2CD)

Label: Fresh Sound

Cat No:FSRCD588
Format:CD

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• Count Basie had given the band business a jolt with this particular group and, his own immeasurable contributions aside, it was the instrumentalists themselves who made it a band of distinction. In 1955 it was voted the world’s top jazz band in Down Beat’s annual reader’s poll.

• 39 tunes on this double CD include live performances from the Savoy ballroom, Cleveland

• Featuring: Joe Newman, Joe Wilder, Thad Jones, Johnny Mandel (tp), Henry Coker, Benny Powell (tb), Marshall Royal, Ernie Wilkins, Frank Wess, Frank Foster, Charlie Fowlkes (saxes), Count Basie (p, org), Freddie Green (g), Eddie Jones (b), Gus Johnson (d)

Track Listing for The Band of Distinction (2CD)
CD1
1 Plymouth Rock
2 Blues Go Away!
3 Peace Pipe
4 Straight Life
5 Bubbles
6 Softly with Feeling
7 Cherry Point
8 Basie Goes Wess
9 Right On
10 The Blues Done Come Back
11 Slow but Sure
12 You for Me
13 She’s Just My Size
14 Soft Drink
15 Two for the Blues
16 Blues Backstage
17 I Feel Like a Newman
18 Down for the Count

CD2
1 Stereophonic
2 Sixteen Men Swinging
3 Ska-Di-Dle-Dee-Bee-Doo
4 Perdido
5 Mambo Mist
6 Eventide
7 Two Franks
8 Ain’t Misbehavin’
9 Rails
10 Blee Blop Blues
11 Basie Talks
12 Two Franks
13 It Could Happen to You
14 Ska-Di-Dle-Dee-Bee-Doo
15 Slow but Sure
16 Bubbles
17 Don’t Blame Me
18 You for Me
19 Straight Life
20 Two for the Blues
21 Basie Goes Wess

Reviews

Jazz Journal - Mark Gardner

It would be hard to find a better example of postwar big-band jazz than this.

Jazz Rag - Les Tomkins

the Count delivers a really classic sequence, allowing us to savour those deliciously crunchy bottom chords.

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