Count Basie - The Complete Atomic Basie (1957)

Count Basie - The Complete Atomic Basie (1957)











One
of the reasons that some major labels love to license big chunks of
their catalogs to smaller independent outfits for box set reissues is
that they never know that those licensees will turn up in putting those
sets together, and it all becomes fair game for the parent company.
Thus, in 1994, a year after Mosaic unearthed five previously unissued
tracks from the October 1957 sessions that yielded The Atomic Mr. Basie
on Roulette, Capitol Records (which had acquired the Roulette library)
issued this expanded version of the original album. The original 11
songs are here, remastered into proper mono (there was an impossible to
listen to duophonic stereo master made at the time of release that was
in circulation on LP for a time), along with five outtakes consisting of
material written and arranged by Jimmy Mundy: the instrumentals "Silks
and Satins," "Sleepwalker's Serenade" (two different takes), and "The
Late Late Show" and a vocal version of the latter featuring Joe
Williams. These were apparently part of a proposed Jimmy Mundy album
that never got completed, and were forgotten; they fit in surprisingly
well with the Neal Hefti arrangements comprised the original recording,
and Joe Williams turns in some of the best work of his career on the
vocal version of "The Late Late Show," a sultry, richly intoned
performance that positively seduces the listener, with the band blowing
beautifully behind him.

Genre - Jazz
Styles - Big Band, Swing, Piano Blues
Time - 56:53
Format - mp3@320 Kbps
Size - 103 mb

Tracks
01. Kid From Red Bank
02. Duet
03. After Supper
04. Flight Of The Foo Birds
05. Double O
06. Teddy The Toad
07. Whirly Bird
08. Midnite Blue
09. Splanky
10. Fantail
11. Li'l Darlin'
12. Silks And Satins
13. Sleepwalker's Serenade (Alternate Take)
14. Sleepwalker's Serenade
15. The Late Late Show
16. The Late Late Show (Vocal Version)

Credits
Count Basie (piano)
Freddie Green (guitar)
Wendell Culley, Thad Jones, Joe Newman (trumpet)
Henry Coker, Al Grey, Benny Powell (trombone)
Joe Williams (vocals)
Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Frank Foster (reeds)
Eddie Jones (bass)
Sonny Payne (drums)

Label
Roulette, 1957

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