Count Basie - Atomic Mr. Basie Disc 1/ One More Time Disc 2

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:35 (Disc 1)
Size: 95,9 MB (Disc 1)
Time: 36:57 (Disc 2)
Size: 89,4 MB (Disc 2)
Art: Front + Back

Atomic Mr. Basie  Disc 1

(2:42)  1. Kid From Red Bank
(4:12)  2. Duet
(3:26)  3. After Supper
(3:24)  4. Flight Of The Foo Birds
(2:46)  5. Double-O
(3:19)  6. Teddy The Toad
(3:51)  7. Whirlybird
(4:28)  8. Midnite Blue
(3:36)  9. Splanky
(2:56) 10. Fantail
(4:50) 11. Lil' Darlin'

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One More Time  Disc 2

(3:56)  1. For Lena And Lennie
(2:44)  2. Rat Race
(4:03)  3. Quince
(3:32)  4. Meet B.B.
(3:02)  5. The Big Walk
(2:22)  6. A Square At The Roundtable
(3:36)  7. I Needs To Be Bee'd With
(4:31)  8. Jessica's Day
(3:38)  9. The Midnite Sun Never Sets
(5:30) 10. Muttnik

Count Basie was among the most important bandleaders of the swing era. With the exception of a brief period in the early '50s, he led a big band from 1935 until his death almost 50 years later, and the band continued to perform after he died. Basie's orchestra was characterized by a light, swinging rhythm section that he led from the piano, lively ensemble work, and generous soloing. Basie was not a composer like Duke Ellington or an important soloist like Benny Goodman. His instrument was his band, which was considered the epitome of swing and became broadly influential on jazz.

Both of Basie's parents were musicians; his father, Harvie Basie, played the mellophone, and his mother, Lillian (Childs) Basie, was a pianist who gave her son his earliest lessons. Basie also learned from Harlem stride pianists, particularly Fats Waller. His first professional work came accompanying vaudeville performers, and he was part of a troupe that broke up in Kansas City in 1927, leaving him stranded there. He stayed in the Midwestern city, at first working in a silent movie house and then joining Walter Page's Blue Devils in July 1928. The band's vocalist was Jimmy Rushing. Basie left in early 1929 to play with other bands, eventually settling into one led by Bennie Moten. Upon Moten's untimely death on April 2, 1935, Basie worked as a soloist before leading a band initially called the Barons of Rhythm. Many former members of the Moten band joined this nine-piece outfit, among them Walter Page (bass), Freddie Green (guitar), Jo Jones (drums), and Lester Young (tenor saxophone). Jimmy Rushing became the singer. The band gained a residency at the Reno Club in Kansas City and began broadcasting on the radio, an announcer dubbing the pianist "Count" Basie. ~ William Ruhlmann  Bio..More..http://www.allmusic.com/artist/count-basie-mn0000127044/biography

Atomic Mr. Basie  Disc 1

One More Time  Disc 2

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