Kansas City 8: Get Together

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Released 1979 Length 43:41 Release date 1979 Label Pablo Records		Recorded September 4, 1979 Artist Count Basie Producer Norman Granz Genre Jazz

Kansas City 8 Get Together (1979) Kansas City Shout (1980) Similar Loose Walk, Basie Swingin' Voices Si, Mostly Bluesand Some Oth, Basie Jam 3, Basie Jam: Montreux '77

Kansas City 8: Get Together is a 1979 studio album by Count Basie.

Track listing

"Ode to Pres" (Clark Terry) – 4:07
"Basie's Bag" (Count Basie, Ernie Wilkins) – 9:45
"Swinging on the Cusp" (Terry) – 5:41
"Like It Used to Be" (Basie) – 8:29
"My Main Men" (Basie) – 6:10
"Pretty Time: "I Can't Get Started"/"What Will I Tell My Heart"/"Talk of the Town"/"I Can't Give You Anything But Love"/"I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke)/(Irving Gordon, Jack Lawrence, Peter Tinturin)/(Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields)(Doc Daugherty, Al J. Neiburg, Ellis Reynolds) – 9:35

Count Basie - piano

Budd Johnson - baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - tenor saxophone

Clark Terry - trumpet, flugelhorn

Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet

Freddie Green - guitar

John Clayton - double bass

Gus Johnson - drums

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