 |
|
Format: CD
Oct 1990
Record Label: Verve (USA)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 042283532922 |
|
|
| * Actual items for sale may vary from the above information and image. |
|
|
|
|
* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
|
|
* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
|
|
 |
|
Track Listing
1. Everyday (I Have the Blues)
2. Fine Romance, A
3. Amazing Love
4. Too Close For Comfort
5. Please Send Me Someone to Love
6. I'm Beginning to See the Light
7. In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)
8. Smack Dab in the Middle
9. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me)
10. Teach Me Tonight
11. Party Blues
12. Come Rain or Come Shine
13. Roll 'Em Pete
14. Comeback, The
15. Thou Swell
16. Alright, Okay, You Win
Album Notes
Personnel: Count Basie (leader, piano); Joe Williams, Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Marshall Royal, Bill Graham (alto saxophone); Frank Wess, Frank Foster (tenor saxophone); Charlie Fowlkes (baritone saxophone); Wendell Culley, Reunald Jones, Thad Jones, Joe Newman (trumpet); Henry Coker, Bill Hughes, Benny Powell (trombone); Freddie Green (guitar); Eddie Jones (bass); Sonny Payne (drums).
Recorded between 1955 & 1957.
Basie was at the beginning of a musical rebirth when Joe Williams joined the band. Williams' malleable baritone delivered the blues with deep-rooted conviction, and he sang standards with both elegance and grit all at once. It's easy to see, therefore, that his presence would only add to the already roaring swing of the Basie band. On this compact jazz recording, we hear a variety of tunes from the Basie book that feature the great Williams. Taken from several different recording sessions in the æ50's, this album stresses Willaims' ability to adapt to different musical settings.
On "Every Day (I Have the Blues)" Williams bellows using a rich, vibrato laden and powerful voice. However, on the Jerome Kern standard, "A Fine Romance," he uses a more cosmopolitan and refined timbre. We also hear him singing duets with the inimitable Ella Fitzgerald on "Too Close For Comfort" and "Party Blues." And finally, we hear him wailing on a shuffle blues, with Basie, live at the Newport Jazz festival.
|
|
|
Sell your stuff
)
)
)
All rights reserved.
