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Have a Nice Day (Count Basie album)

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Released
  
1971

Producer
  
Tom Mack

Release date
  
1971

Genres
  
Jazz, Swing music

Recorded
  
July–August 1971

Have a Nice Day (1971)
  
Basie Jam (1973)

Label
  
Polydor Records

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Artists
  
Count Basie, Count Basie Orchestra

Similar
  
Count Basie albums, Jazz albums

Count basie have a nice day


Have a Nice Day is a 1971 studio album by Count Basie and his orchestra, with all music composed and arranged by Sammy Nestico.

Contents

This was Basie's debut recording for Daybreak.

Sammy Nestico, a graduate of Duquesne University who worked for the US Air Force Band, primarily the Airmen of Note, in Washington, DC for 12 years after World War II, had at this time been writing for Basie for four years.

Reissued on CD in West Germany by EmArcy Records (Catalog #824 867-2) and Marketed by Phonogram. (CD itself says "Made in W. Germany by Polygram")

Track listing

  1. "Have a Nice Day" – 3:14
  2. "The Plunger" – 3:42
  3. "Jamie" – 3:22
  4. "It's About Time" – 3:03
  5. "This Way" – 2:28
  6. "Scott's Place" – 3:53
  7. "Doin' Basie's Thing" – 2:48
  8. "The Spirit Is Willing" – 3:00
  9. "Small Talk" – 3:28
  10. "You 'N Me" – 2:55
  11. "Feelin' Free"" – 2:40

All music composed by Sammy Nestico.

Personnel

The Count Basie Orchestra
  • Count Basie - piano
  • Paul Cohen - trumpet
  • Sonny Cohn
  • Pete Minger
  • Waymon Reed
  • Al Grey - trombone
  • Bill Hughes
  • Grover Mitchell
  • Melvin Wanzo
  • John Watson, Sr.
  • Bobby Plater - alto saxophone
  • Curtis Peagler
  • Eric Dixon - tenor saxophone
  • Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis
  • J. C. Williams - baritone saxophone
  • Freddie Green - guitar
  • Norman Keenan - double bass
  • Harold Jones - drums
  • Sammy Nestico - arranger, conductor

    • Songs

    1Have A Nice Day3:18
    2The Plunger3:49
    3Jamie2:27

    References

    Have a Nice Day (Count Basie album) Wikipedia
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