the story in chronological order. It starts with "Shoe Shine Boy", from the 1936 session that introduced the names of both Basie himself and the great tenor saxophonist, Lester Young, to the world. Many years later veteran producer John Hammond described this as "the most perfect recording session I was ever involved with". From this auspicious beginning, the story unfolds to show how Basie's band, with its matchless rhythm section, taught the swing era how to swing. Through numbers such as "One O'Clock Jump", "Swinging the Blues" and "Jumping at the Woodside", Basie's amazing cast of soloists--Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Herschel Evans and many more--influenced the entire history of jazz. As the years passed, the band became slicker and used more elaborate arrangements, but never lost the essential simplicity of its approach nor its solid grounding in the blues. Listen to "Harvard Blues", a masterpiece from 1941, for proof of that, with Jimmy Rushing's high, intense voice, Don Byas's silky tenor saxophone and the majestic harmonies of Buster Harding's arrangement. Along the way we catch glimpses of the various small groups--the Kansas City Seven, the All-American Rhythm--which occasionally popped out of the main band. The tracks take us as far as 1950, when the end of the big-band era forced Basie to cut down to a small group for a while, and even that was a superior little outfit, composed entirely of top soloists. As both a musical anthology and a narrative, this collection is impossible to fault. A box of four CDs containing 99 tracks, many of them timeless classics, complete with a 48-page illustrated booklet, all at an eye-poppingly low price. How do they do it? It doesn't seem to matter, as long as they continue to produce stuff as good as this. --Dave Gelly
(Count Basie) Roseland Shuffle (Count Basie) The Glory Of Love (Count Basie) Smarty (You Know It All) (Count Basie) One O'Clock Jump (Count Basie) John's Idea (Count Basie) Time Out (Count Basie) Topsy (Count Basie) Out The Window (Count Basie) Blues In The Dark (Count Basie) Sent For You Yesterday (Count Basie) Every Tub (Count Basie) Swinging The Blues (Count Basie) Blue And Sentimental (Count Basie) Doggin' Around (Count Basie) Texas Shuffle (Count Basie) Jumpin' At The Woodside (Count Basie) How long How Long Blues (Count Basie) The Dirty Dozens (Count Basie) Shorty George (Count Basie) The Blues I Like To Hear (Count Basie) Panassie Stomp (Count Basie) My Heart Belongs To Daddy (Count Basie) Disc 2 Dupree Blues (Count Basie) Red Wagon (Count Basie) You Can Depend On Me (Count Basie) Blame It On My Last Affair (Count Basie) Jive At Five (Count Basie) Oh Lady be Good (Count Basie) Goin' To Chicago Blues (Count Basie) Rock-A-Bye Basie (Count Basie) Taxi War Dance (Count Basie) Jump For Me (Count Basie) Miss Things (Pts 1 & 2) (Count Basie) Pound Cake (Count Basie) Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie (Count Basie) Dickie's Dream (Count Basie) Lester Leaps In (Count Basie) I Left My Baby (Count Basie) Volcano (Count Basie) Tickle-Toe (Count Basie) Louisiana (Count Basie) Easy Does It (Count Basie) Let Me See (Count Basie) Blow Top (Count Basie) Gone With 'What' Wind (Count Basie) Super Chef (Count Basie) Disc 3 Moten Swing (Count Basie) I Want A Little Girl (Count Basie) Broadway (Count Basie) Rockin' The Blues (Count Basie) The Jitters (Count Basie) Tuesday At Ten (Count Basie) Fiesta In Blue (Count Basie) Something New (Count Basie) Feather Merchant (Count Basie) Down For Double (Count Basie) Harvard Blues (Count Basie) Ain't It The Truth (Count Basie) It's Sand Man! (Count Basie) Dance Of The Gremlins (Count Basie) G.I. Stomp (Red Bank Boogie) (Count Basie) Rhythm Man (Count Basie) Taps Miller (Count Basie) Avenue C (Count Basie) High Tide (Count Basie) Tippin' On The Q.T. (Count Basie) San Jose (Count Basie) B-Flat Blues (Count Basie) High Tide (Count Basie) Queer Street (Count Basie) The Mad Boogie (Count Basie) Disc 4 Lazy Lady Blues (Count Basie) Rambo (Count Basie) Stay Cool (Count Basie) The King (Count Basie) Stay On It (Count Basie) Bill's Mill (Count Basie) Brand New Wagon (Count Basie) One O'Clock Boogie (Count Basie) Swingin' The Blues (Count Basie) Basie's Basement (Count Basie Bunch) Shine On Harvest Moon (Count Basie) Sugar (Count Basie) 7th Avenue Express (Count Basie) Mr. Robert's Roost (Count Basie) Just A Minute (Count Basie) Hey Pretty Baby (Count Basie) Bye Bye Baby (Count Basie) After You've Gone (Count Basie) If You See My Baby (Count Basie) Sweets (Count Basie) Golden Bullet (Count Basie) Song Of The Islands (Count Basie) One O'Clock Jump (Count Basie) Tootsie (Count Basie Bunch) Basie Boogie (Count Basie)
story in chronological order. It starts with "Shoe Shine Boy", from the 1936 session that introduced the names of both Basie himself and the great tenor saxophonist, Lester Young, to the world. Many years later veteran producer John Hammond described this as "the most perfect recording session I was ever involved with". From this auspicious beginning, the story unfolds to show how Basie's band, with its matchless rhythm section, taught the swing era how to swing. Through numbers such as "One O'Clock Jump", "Swinging the Blues" and "Jumping at the Woodside", Basie's amazing cast of soloists--Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Herschel Evans and many more--influenced the entire history of jazz. As the years passed, the band became slicker and used more elaborate arrangements, but never lost the essential simplicity of its approach nor its solid grounding in the blues. Listen to "Harvard Blues", a masterpiece from 1941, for proof of that, with JimmyRushing's high, intense voice, Don Byas's silky tenor saxophone and the majestic harmonies of Buster Harding's arrangement. Along the way we catch glimpses of the various small groups--the Kansas City Seven, the All-American Rhythm--which occasionally popped out of the main band. The tracks take us as far as 1950, when the end of the big-band era forced Basie to cut down to a small group for a while, and even that was a superior little outfit, composed entirely of top soloists. As both a musical anthology and a narrative, this collection is impossible to fault. A box of four CDs containing 99 tracks, many of them timeless classics, complete with a 48-page illustrated booklet, all at an eye-poppingly low price. How do they do it? It doesn't seem to matter, as long as they continue to produce stuff as good as this.--Dave Gelly
Advantages: Delilah Disadvantages: Quite a few average tracks
...Plain white Tee's
The band hails from Chicago in the US and formed way back in 1997. The band has already released 4 albums and this is the first album to chart in the US or UK Markets. This current album shot the band to the radio airways in the UK with the massive love song that was released last summer called hey there Delilah. The really interesting part of this story is that Delilah does not actually appear for the first time on the every second counts, but it was the record industry who asked the band to re-release it on the every second counts album. When it was re-released the band promoted the single all across the globe and the single reached number 1 in numerous countries, although surprisingly it only reached number 2 in the UK.
The bands current lineup is:
Tom Higgenson - Vocals
Dave Tirio - Guitar
Mike Retondo...
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Advantages: Two greats performing together, superb tracklisting Disadvantages: None!
...Frank Sinatra and CountBasie?
Together on one disc?
Genius.
This is a thoroughly superb album. Sinatra is one of the greatest singers and performers, Basie one of the next jazz musicians and orchestrators. Together they combine to provide a musical production og genuine quality.
The 'live' aspect is, perhaps unsurprisingly, what brings this album truly alive. With the raw edge that is present without studio editing there is a real sense of being there whilst this music is being created - and that is the key. This music hasn't been rehearsed and played and cut and edited and re-edited until it is 'musical perfection'. The music lives because it is there as a genuine interaction between people. Sinatra is singing for this audience, Basie is playing for Sinatra, the audience responds and all three interact in a real experience...
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Advantages: This is simply a beautiful album with no weak links Disadvantages: You will buy other CC albums and be left a little dissapointed
...August and everything After sits comfortably in my top five favourite albums of all time. For your own interest and to show the quality of this superb album, my list reads:
1) OK Computer, Radiohead
2) Counting Crows: August and everything After
3) The bends, Radiohead
4) Manic Street Preachers: The holy bible
5) Defnitely Maybe: Oasis
This album is immense and actually the only album other than OK computer which I don't skip a song. So why is it so good? Well its perfect in everyway. They always say the key to a good album is a good entrance, if thats true, Round Here (Song 1) fulfills every criteria
This song is faultless, the moody introduction of the Hammond organ sets a stunning resonance to which an uncomplicated but beautiful guitar line comes in, your left hanging for a few seconds until the distinctive Adam Duritz...
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