Basie One More Time

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Basie One More Time
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Studio album by
Released1959
RecordedDecember 19, 1958 and January 23 & 24, 1959
New York City and Chicago
Genre Jazz
Label Roulette
SR 52024
Producer Teddy Reig and Rudy Traylor
Count Basie chronology
Chairman of the Board
(1959)
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(1959)
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(1959)

Basie One More Time (subtitled Music from the Pen of Quincy Jones) is an album by pianist and bandleader Count Basie performing the compositions and arrangements of Quincy Jones recorded in late 1958 and early 1959 and originally released on the Roulette label. [1] [2]

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Reception

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AllMusic's review states, "Jones's charts helped expand the Basie sound without altering it. An excellent CD". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Quincy Jones

  1. "For Lena and Lennie" - 3:57
  2. "Rat Race" - 2:57
  3. "Quince" - 3:55
  4. "Meet B B" - 3:35
  5. "The Big Walk" - 2:55
  6. "A Square at the Roundtable" - 2:16
  7. "I Needs to Be Bee'd With" - 3:29
  8. "Jessica's Day" - 4:24
  9. "The Midnite Sun Never Sets" - 3:34
  10. "Muttnik" - 5:25

Personnel

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References

  1. Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. Roulette Album Discography, Part 3, accessed November 3, 2015
  2. Kitora, R., Count Basie Discography, accessed November 3, 2015
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Basie One More Time – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved November 3, 2015.