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The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards

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Released
  
1956

Artist
  
Count Basie

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal jazz

Length
  
34:43

Release date
  
2005

Label
  
Weton-Wesgram

Recorded
  
April 28 and May 1, 1956 Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA

The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards (1956)
  
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Similar
  
Count Basie albums, Jazz albums

The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards is an album by vocalist Joe Williams and pianist/bandleader Count Basie and His Orchestra recorded in 1956 and released on the Verve label. It was William's second album with Basie following Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings.

Contents

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars.

Track listing

  1. "Thou Swell" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:19
  2. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 2:48
  3. "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:38
  4. "'S Wonderful" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 2:35
  5. "My Baby Just Cares for Me" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 2:24
  6. "Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby) – 3:54
  7. "Singin' in the Rain" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed) – 2:25
  8. "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges) – 3:04
  9. "A Fine Romance" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) – 2:28
  10. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:58
  11. "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" (Clarence Gaskill, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:38
  12. "This Can't Be Love" (Hart, Rodgers) – 2:32
  • Recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, CA, on April 28, 1956 (tracks 2, 3 & 6-9) and May 1, 1956 (tracks 1, 4, 5 & 10-12)

    • Personnel

  • Joe Williams - vocals
  • Count Basie - piano
  • Wendell Culley, Reunald Jones, Thad Jones, Joe Newman - trumpet
  • Henry Coker, Bill Hughes, Benny Powell - trombone
  • Marshall Royal - alto saxophone, clarinet
  • Bill Graham - alto saxophone
  • Frank Wess - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet
  • Frank Foster - tenor saxophone, clarinet
  • Charlie Fowlkes - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
  • Freddie Green - guitar
  • Eddie Jones - bass
  • Sonny Payne - drums
  • Buddy Bregman - arranger, conductor

    • Songs

    112th Street Rag3:02
    2Shine on - Harvest Moon2:24
    3Backstage at Stuff's2:33

    References

    The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards Wikipedia
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