Advantages: Two greats performing together, superb tracklisting Disadvantages: None!
Frank Sinatra and Count Basie?
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 ... ...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. The off-the-cuff comments from Sinatra, the one-liners from the audience, the real applause at each song and solo - all demonstrate that this music truly was great to the people who were there, and still is great to those that listen to it today.
Sinatra's 'monologue' halfway ...
Rob-E 27.03.2007
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