Artist.......: Count Basie
Album........: Coming Out Party Vol.3 (1940 - 1942)
Label........: Naxos Jazz Legends
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: 8.120819
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Aug-10-2006
str.date.....: Nov-28-2005
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.countbasie.com
track title time
01. 9:20 Special 03:13
02. Goin' To Chicago Blues 03:25
03. Fiesta in Blue 03:08
04. King Joe, Parts 1 & 2 06:31
05. Feather Merchant 03:04
06. Harvard Blues 03:22
07. Coming Out Party 03:31
08. Basie Blues 03:10
09. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town 03:05
10. Royal Garden Blues 03:10
11. How Long Blues 03:02
12. Bugle Blues 02:24
13. Sugar Blues 03:00
14. Farewell Blues 03:21
15. Cafe Society Blues 03:20
16. Way back Blues 03:32
17. St Louis Blues 03:22
18. The World is Mad, Parts 1 & 2 05:30
Runtime 63:10 min
Size 56,10 MB
Release Notes:
Even at these early days of the Basie big band, it
was obvious that Bill Basie had a band to reckon
with. Lester Young who had been one of it's main
stars had left when these recordings were made, but
the band still had many fine soloists Buck Clayton
and Sweets Edison in the Trumpets, Dickie Wells
and Vic Dickenson in the Trombones and Buddy Tate
and Don Byas in the saxes. Coleman Hawkins is a
featured guest on track 1, the unforgettable voice
of Jimmy rushing is heard on tracks 2, 6 & 9 and
strangely Paul Robeson provides the vocal on track
4, he sounds terribly out of place despite his
amazing voice!
Tracks 10,12,13 and17 feature a small group
consisting of Buck Clayton, Don Byas, Basie,
Freddie Green on guitar, Walter Page on bass and Jo
Jones on drums. Tracks 11,14 & 16 feature the Count
on piano with the rhythm section.
Buck Clayton leads the trumpet section throughout,
what a good musician he was, the trumpets were as
good as those of any band of this era, he really is
one of the great unsung heroes of jazz.
Big bands of this era mostly played blues or blues
related compositions, the Woody Herman band of the
same era was known as the band that played the
blues. It was a great place to start, the riffing
that is heard on these tracks gives the band a
terrific drive.
Another unsung hero must be Don Byas who plays
magnificently on the small band tracks in the
company of Buck Clayton. He had a great tenor sax
sound and was a very inventive improviser on any
theme.
The record is an interesting piece of jazz history,
not to be missed!
Don Mather