Count Basie and the Kansas City 7

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Released 1962 Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 (1962) Easin' It (1962) Release date 1962 Label Impulse! Records		Length 35:57 Artist Count Basie Producer Bob Thiele Genre Jazz

Recorded March 21 & 22, 1962 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ Similar Count Basie albums, Jazz albums

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Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 is an album by American jazz bandleader and pianist Count Basie featuring small group performances recorded in 1962 for the Impulse! label.

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Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "One of Count Basie's few small-group sessions of the '60s was his best". In a contemporaneous review in the October 11, 1962 issue of Down Beat magazine, Leonard Feather rated the album at 4.5 stars.

Track listing

"Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:40
"Secrets" (Frank Wess) – 4:08
"I Want a Little Girl" (Murray Mencher, Billy Moll) – 4:16
"Shoe Shine Boy" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin) – 4:07
"Count's Place" (Count Basie) – 5:28
"Senator Whitehead" (Wess) – 4:12
"Tally-Ho, Mr. Basie!" (Basie) – 4:28
"What'cha Talkin'?" (Thad Jones) – 4:59

Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on March 21, 1962 (tracks 2, 6 & 8), and March 22, 1962 (tracks 1, 3-5 & 7)

Personnel

Count Basie – piano, organ

Thad Jones – trumpet

Frank Wess – flute, alto flute (tracks 2, 6 & 8)

Frank Foster – tenor saxophone, clarinet (tracks 1, 3-5 & 7)

Eric Dixon – tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet

Freddie Green – guitar

Eddie Jones – bass

Sonny Payne – drums

Production

Pete Turner - photography

Songs

1Oh - Lady Be Good4:41
2Secrets4:08
3I Want a Little Girl4:16

References

Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 Wikipedia

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