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Breakfast Dance and Barbecue

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Released
  
1959

Producer
  
Teddy Reig

Genre
  
Jazz

Release date
  
1959

Label
  
Roulette Records

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Recorded
  
May 31, 1959 The Americana Hotel, Miami, Florida

Length
  
74:22 CD reissue with bonus tracks

Breakfast Dance and Barbecue (1959)
  
Basie/Eckstine Incorporated (1959)

Artists
  
Count Basie, Count Basie Orchestra

Similar
  
Count Basie albums, Jazz albums

Breakfast Dance and Barbecue is a live album by pianist, composer and bandleader Count Basie and his Orchestra with vocalist Joe Williams featuring tracks recorded at a Disc Jockey convention in Florida in 1959 and originally released on the Roulette label.

Contents

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars and its review by Scott Yanow states, "Their first of three sets took place at 2 a.m. but the late hour if anything kept the band loose".

Track listing

  1. "The Deacon" (Thad Jones) - 5:52 Bonus track on CD reissue
  2. "Cute" (Neal Hefti) - 4:09 Bonus track on CD reissue
  3. "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) - 6:53
  4. "No Moon at All" (David Mann, Redd Evans) - 2:57 Bonus track on CD reissue
  5. "Cherry Red" (Pete Johnson, Big Joe Turner) - 2:39 Bonus track on CD reissue
  6. "Roll 'Em Pete" (Johnson, Turner) - 2:38 Bonus track on CD reissue
  7. "Cherry Point" (Hefti) - 4:10 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "Splanky" (Hefti) - 4:15 Bonus track on CD reissue
  9. "Counter Block" (Jones) - 4:34 Bonus track on CD reissue
  10. "Li'l Darlin'" (Hefti) - 4:07 Bonus track on CD reissue
  11. "Who, Me?" (Frank Foster) - 3:59
  12. "Five O'Clock in the Morning" (Joe Williams) - 2:53
  13. "Every Day I Have the Blues" (Memphis Slim) - 3:48 Bonus track on CD reissue
  14. "Back to the Apple" (Count Basie, Frank Foster) - 5:33 Bonus track on CD reissue
  15. "Let's Have a Taste" (Snooky Young) - 4:17
  16. "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) - 5:17
  17. "Hallelujah I Love Her So" (Ray Charles) - 2:36
  18. "One O'Clock Jump" (Count Basie) - 3:45

Personnel

  • Count Basie - piano
  • Joe Williams - vocals
  • Wendell Culley, Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Snooky Young - trumpet
  • Henry Coker, Al Grey, Benny Powell - trombone
  • Marshal Royal, Frank Wess - alto saxophone
  • Frank Foster, Billy Mitchell - tenor saxophone
  • Charlie Fowlkes - baritone saxophone
  • Freddie Green - guitar
  • Eddie Jones - bass
  • Sonny Payne - drums
  • Harry Edison - trumpet (track 18)

    • Songs

    1In a Mellow Tone6:52
    25 O'Clock in the Morning2:53
    3Counter Block4:35

    References

    Breakfast Dance and Barbecue Wikipedia
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