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Prime Time (Count Basie album)

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Released
  
1977

Length
  
42:24

Prime Time(1977)
  
Kansas City 5(1977)

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Recorded
  
1977

Label
  
Pablo

Release date
  
1977

Genre
  
Jazz

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Artists
  
Count Basie, Count Basie Orchestra

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Similar
  
Count Basie albums, Jazz albums

Count basie s prime time


Prime Time is a 1977 studio album by Count Basie.

Contents

At the 20th Grammy Awards, Count Basie won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band for Prime Time.

Track listing

  1. "Prime Time" – 7:33
  2. "Bundle O'Funk" – 5:16
  3. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) – 3:34
  4. "Featherweight" – 4:52
  5. "Reachin' Out" – 6:36
  6. "Ja-Da" (Bob Carlton) – 5:45
  7. "The Great Debate" – 4:48
  8. "Ya Gotta Try" – 4:00

All music composed by Sammy Nestico, unless otherwise noted.

Personnel

The Count Basie Orchestra
  • Count Basie - piano
  • Sonny Cohn
  • Pete Minger
  • Lin Biviano - trumpet
  • Bobby Mitchell
  • Bill Hughes - trombone
  • Curtis Fuller - trombone
  • 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
  • Reinie Press - Fender bass
  • Nat Pierce - piano
  • Butch Miles - drums
  • Sammy Nestico - arranger, conductor

    • Songs

    1Prime Time7:37
    2Bundle O'Funk5:19
    3Sweet Georgia Brown3:39

    References

    Prime Time (Count Basie album) Wikipedia
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