| At Long Last | ||||
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| Studio album by Rosemary Clooney | ||||
| Released | October 13, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | November 1997 – June 1998 | |||
| Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
| Length | 61:30 | |||
| Label | Concord | |||
| Producer | John Burk | |||
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At Long Last is a 1998 studio album by Rosemary Clooney, accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra.
Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me", "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole House". She also had success as a jazz vocalist. Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her White Christmas co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She continued recording until her death in 2002.
The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16 to 18 piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936. Despite a brief disbandment at the beginning of the 1950s, the band survived long past the Big Band era itself and the death of Basie in 1984. It continues as a 'ghost band'.
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This was Clooney's first recording with the Basie band. Clooney had previously made an album with Duke Ellington, Blue Rose in 1956. Fifteen years after Count Basie's death, the Count Basie Orchestra is featured here as a ghost band, led by Grover Mitchell [2]
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than fifty years.
Grover Curry Mitchell was a jazz trombonist who led the Count Basie Orchestra.
