Count Basie - Good Time Blues: Complete Live In Bahams & Vegas [CD]

37 tracks across 2CDs, features brilliant stereo sound and a 16-page booklet, with some tracks appearing for the first time ever on CD. Count Basie's career was revived in late 1957 thanks to the success of the Neal Hefti arranged LP Atomic Basie, which became one of his biggest hits. From then on, the Count Basie orchestra flourished as proven by the two 1969 complete club sets presented here, recorded within two weeks of each other live at La Cabaret Casino in Nassau and the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. Among the outstanding soloists are the great Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Basie himself, and, on the Las Vegas engagement, guest star trumpet soloist Harry "Sweets" Edison. Most of the Nassau tracks appear here for the first time ever on CD. "This set features updated takes on the Basie songbook's greatest instrumental hits. The music is, of course, great, and the players respond to the excitement of the live audience." - * AllMusic

Tracklist:

1. Introduction to the First Set
2. All of Me
3. Frankie and Johnny
4. Cute #1
5. Lonely Street
6. Cherokee
7. Does Anyone Ever Win?
8. A Night in Tunisia
9. Li'l Darlin' #1
10. Blues in Hoss' Flat
11. Introduction to the Second Set/Splanky
12. Hittin' Twelve
13. One Mint Julep
14. Bye Bye Blackbird
15. The Midnight Sun Never Sets
16. Boone Talk
17. I Got Rhythm
18. The Magic Flea
19. Good Time Blues
20. April in Paris
21. Basie
22. Li'l Darlin' #2
23. Cute #2
24. One O'Clock Jump #1
25. Down for Double
26. Li'l Darlin' #3
27. Broadway
28. Jive at Five
29. Cherry Point
30. Jumpin' at the Woodside
31. One O'Clock Jump #2
32. Shiny Stockings
33. Blue and Sentimental
34. Every Tub
35. Corner Pocket
36. The Kid from Red Bank
37. One O'Clock Jump #3

UPC: 8436563185878
Label: FINGERPOPPIN
Release Date: 2.14.25
Format: CD