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Montreux '77 (Count Basie album)

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Released
  
1977

Length
  
42:24

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
July 15, 1977

Release date
  
1977

Label
  
Pablo Records

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Montreux '77 (1977)
  
Live in Japan '78 (1978)

Artists
  
Count Basie, Count Basie Big Band

Similar
  
Live in Japan '78, I Told You So, Farmer's Market Barbecue, Basie Jam, Me and You

Montreux '77 is an album by Count Basie and his orchestra, recorded at the 1977 Montreux Jazz Festival.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Heat's On" (Sammy Nestico) – 3:39
  2. "Freckle Face" (Nestico) – 6:04
  3. "Splanky" (Neal Hefti) – 4:34
  4. "The More I See You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 3:41
  5. "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 4:53
  6. "Hittin' 12" (Harrison) – 2:23
  7. "Bag of Dreams" (Jimmy Forrest) – 6:14
  8. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 4:14
  9. "I Needs to Be Bee'd With" (Quincy Jones) – 5:07
  10. "Li'l Darlin'" (Hefti) – 4:44
  11. "Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Count Basie, Jon Hendricks) – 3:50
  12. "One O'Clock Jump" (Basie) – 3:28

Personnel

The Count Basie Orchestra
  • Count Basie - piano
  • Sonny Cohn - trumpet
  • Waymon Reed
  • Lin Biviano - trumpet
  • Bobby Mitchell
  • Bill Hughes - trombone
  • Dennis Wilson
  • Mel Wanzo
  • Al Grey
  • Bobby Plater - alto saxophone
  • Danny Turner
  • Eric Dixon - tenor saxophone
  • Jimmy Forrest
  • Charlie Fowlkes - baritone saxophone
  • Freddie Green - guitar
  • John Duke - double bass
  • Butch Miles - drums

    • Songs

    1The Heat's On3:21
    2Freckle Face6:24
    3Splanky4:21

    References

    Montreux '77 (Count Basie album) Wikipedia
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