Count Basie - The Complete Decca Recordings (APE+CUE)

Count Basie - The Complete Decca Recordings (APE+CUE)



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This magnificent three-disc set has the first 63 recordings by Count Basie's Orchestra, all of his Deccas. The consistency is remarkable (with not more than two or three turkeys) and the music is the epitome of swing. With such soloists as Lester Young and Herschel Evans on tenors, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison, the great blues singer Jimmy Rushing, and that brilliant rhythm section of Basie, guitarist Freddie Green, bassist Walter Page, and drummer Jo Jones, the music is timeless. It's all here: "One O'Clock Jump," "Sent for You Yesterday," "Blue and Sentimental," "Jumpin' at the Woodside," "Jive at Five," and many others. This is the first Count Basie collection to acquire and should be in every jazz collection.



Personnel: Count Basie (piano); Jimmy Rushing, Helen Humes (vocals); Eddie Durham (arranger, electric guitar, trombone); Caughey Roberts, Earl Warren (alto saxophone); Lester Young, Hershel Evans (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Chu Berry (tenor saxophone); Jack Washington (baritone & alto saxophone); Buck Clayton, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Shad Collins, Joe Keyes, Carl Smith, Ed Lewis, Bobby Moore, Karl George (trumpet); Dan Minor, Dicky Wells, Bennie Morton, George Hunt, (trombone); Freddie Greene, Claude Williams (acoustic rhythm guitar); Walter Page (acoustic bass); Jo Jones (drums).



Track Listing:

Disc：1

01 Honeysuckle Rose

02 Pennies from Heaven

03 Swinging at the Daisy Chain

04 Roseland Shuffle

05 Exactly Like You

06 Boo-Hoo

07 The Glory of Love

08 Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)

09 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 [1st Take]

14 Good Morning Blues [2nd Take]

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



Disc：2

01 Georgianna

02 Blues in the Dark

03 Sent for You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today)

04 Every Tub

05 Now Will You Be Good?

06 Swingin' the Blues

07 Mama Don't Want No Peas 'N' Rice 'N' Coconut Oil

08 Blue and Sentimental

09 Doggin' Around

10 Stop Beating Around the Mulberry Bush [1st Take]

11 Stop Beating Around the Mulberry Bush [2nd Take]

12 London Bridge Is Falling Down

13 Texas Shuffle

14 Jumpin' at the Woodside

15 How Long Blues

16 The Dirty Dozens

17 Hey Lawdy Mama

18 The Fives

19 Boogie Woogie

20 Dark Rapture

21 Shorty George

22 The Blues I Like to Hear

23 Do You Wanna Jump, Children?

24 Panassie Stomp



Disc：3

01 My Heart Belongs to Daddy

02 Sing for Your Supper

03 Oh! Red

04 Fare Thee Honey, Fare Thee Well [1st Take]

05 Fare Thee Honey, Fare Thee Well [2nd Take]

06 Dupree Blues

07 When the Sun Goes Down [1st Take]

08 When the Sun Goes Down [2nd Take]

09 Red Wagon

10 You Can Depend on Me

11 Cherokee, Pt. 1

12 Cherokee, Pt. 2

13 Blame It on My Last Affair [1st Take]

14 Blame It on My Last Affair [2nd Take]

15 Jive at Five

16 Thursday

17 Evil Blues

18 Oh, Lady Be Good