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--- - |- A wonderful piece on Count Basie on NPR's "Jazz Profiles." If you're at all curious about jazz, swing, the history of rhythm or the Basie band, you owe it to yourself to check this out. ~~- Count Basie
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Count Basie Retrospective On NPR
The President
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With Presidential politics in the air, let's talk about one of the greatest to ever hold the office - Lester Young. (OK, so he was President... of the Saxophone.)My favorite record label, Mosaic, has released a 4 CD set of the most influential segment of his work - his days with Count Basie. Like most Mosaic sets, these are limited editions. I ordered fairly early and got set #760 out of 5000. ...
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My Scooter!!!
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There's quite a few of you who already know this but I figured I would share on Mog too. I bought a Vespa LX150 a month ago and it's freaking awesome! It's been about 8 years since I've owned a vehicle. I'm telling you it is just so much fun. I keep looking for reasons to run errands. When I bought my ride it cost me $9 to fill it up with gas. Yesterday it cost me $2.30. That was after r...
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Saturday cover that also became a sample
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The Count Basie Orchestra weren't at their commercial peak when they moved to Brunswick records in 1968, but they could still spot a catchy tune and make it their own. And so it came to pass that they recorded this cover of the McCoys' 1965 hit.Many of you listening will, however, scratch your heads and say "I know that tune from somewhere else - but what is it?"
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Count Basie Plays Neal Hefti’s “Cute”
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For many years after this album was in the can and had become a world wide sensation, the Basie band played this number which displays the brush work of their drummer. For this seminal recording, Sonny Payne had the honors and could seldom be duplicated for his precision and inventiveness. It remains to this day a tour de force. The orchestral palette is kept to a bare minimum, the entire focus...
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