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Artist
Count Basie and the Kansas City 7
Album
Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 [Impulse]
Release Date
Sep 24, 1996
Recording Date
Mar 21, 1962,Mar 22, 1962
Label
Impulse
Time
39:51

Original sessions produced by Bob Thiele. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on March 21 (#2, 6, 8, 9) and March 22 (all others), 1962.

Count Basie Piano
Thad Jones Trumpet
Frank Wess Flute, Alto Flute
Frank Foster Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet
Eric Dixon Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute
Eddie Jones Bass
Sonny Payne Drums

Tracks
1 Oh, Lady Be Good Gershwin, Gershwin 4:39
Composed by: Gershwin, Gershwin
Performed by: Basie, Count & the Kansas City 3
2 Secrets Wess 4:06
Composed by: Wess
Performed by: Basie, Count & the Kansas City 3
3 I Want a Little Girl Mencher, Moll, Moll 4:14
Composed by: Mencher, Moll, Moll
Performed by: Basie, Count & the Kansas City 3
4 Shoe Shine Boy Cahn, Chaplin 4:06
Composed by: Cahn, Chaplin
Performed by: Basie, Count & the Kansas City 3

5 Count's Place Basie 5:27
Composed by: Basie
Performed by: Basie, Count & the Kansas City 3
6 Senator Whitehead Wess 4:10
Composed by: Wess
Performed by: Basie, Count & the Kansas City 3
7 Tally Ho, Mr. Basie! Basie 4:26
Composed by: Basie
Performed by: Basie, Count & the Kansas City 3
8 What'cha Talkin? Jones 4:59
Composed by: Jones
Performed by: Basie, Count & the Kansas City 3
9 Trey of Hearts[*] Jones 3:44

Quote:
This record presents Count Basie in a fresh and unusual small-band context, one in which he permits himself more freedom than he ordinarily does with his big band. It is a context, however, not without precedent.

In October 1936, on his way East from Kansas City to his ultimate triumphs in New York, he entered a Chicago studio with a quintet and recorded, among others, two of the titles found here - Shoe Shine Boy and Oh, Lady Be Good.

His Kansas City Seven was originated three years later, when he recorded with another small section of his band. The band had become world famous in the meantime, and the musicians he chose then were Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells, Lester Young, Freddie Green, Walter Page and Jo Jones. They rode once more in 1944, with Rodney Richardson in place of Walter Page, but it was not until March 1962, when this album was recorded, that Basie called out Kansas City Seven again.

Time brought great changes to jazz during those eighteen years, and the changes were inevitably reflected in Count Basie's band, in its music and in its personnel. His basic policy nevertheless went unchanged, and the emphasis remained on swinging, forthright and relatively uncomplicated jazz.