Count Basie
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Frank Sinatra and Count Basie: Sinatra-Basie: An Historical Musical First (Reprise)
Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 16 February 1963
Sinatra-Basie in Depth: Peter Jones highlights a Great New Album from Sinatra and The Count ...
James Brown, the Count Basie Orchestra, Ramsey Lewis Trio: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 23 November 1968
James Brown Scores Knockout With Soul Music at the Garden ...
Ella Fitzgerald, the Count Basie Orchestra: Circle Star, San Carlos CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 13 December 1972
Ella, Basie Bring Back Swing ...
Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan: Palladium, London
Live Review by Philip Norman, The Times, 15 November 1975
THE EMERGENCE of Frank Sinatra from retirement has become as regular a ceremony as when Lloyd George or Churchill used to be wheeled out on ...
It Don't Mean a Thing if it ain't got that Swing!
Retrospective by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 January 1976
'SWING IS HERE' was the title of a 1936 recording by Gene Krupa and his All-Stars featuring the molten trumpet of Roy "Little Jazz" Eldridge. ...
OK, smarty, so how do y'shift the whole world off its axis?
Report by Brian Case, New Musical Express, August 1976
Simple. SUN RA knew that one way back. Every musician on the planet just gotta play a C7th — all at the same time. While ...
Obituary by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 5 May 1984
Richard Cook pays tribute to the man whose Kansas City swing band conquered the world a jazz aristocrat for 50 years. ...
How Count Basie Brought Big Band Jazz Into the Atomic Age
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, April 2020
POST-WORLD WAR II America was a bleak period for the big-band business. It was the sound that accompanied the country during the Depression and through ...
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