Count Basie and the Kansas City 7

Count Basie and the Kansas City 7
Studio album by Count Basie
Released	1962
Recorded	March 21–22, 1962
Studio	Van Gelder (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey)
Genre	Jazz
Length	35:57
Label	Impulse!
Producer	Bob Thiele
Count Basie chronology
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Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 is an album by American jazz bandleader and pianist Count Basie featuring small group performances recorded in 1962 for the Impulse! label. ^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Down Beat	[3]
New Record Mirror	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[5]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[6]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "One of Count Basie's few small-group sessions of the '60s was his best". ^[2] In a contemporaneous review in the October 11, 1962, issue of Down Beat magazine, Leonard Feather rated the album at 4.5 stars. ^[3]

Track listing

1. "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:40
2. "Secrets" (Frank Wess) – 4:08
3. "I Want a Little Girl" (Murray Mencher, Billy Moll) – 4:16
4. "Shoe Shine Boy" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin) – 4:07
5. "Count's Place" (Count Basie) – 5:28
6. "Senator Whitehead" (Wess) – 4:12
7. "Tally-Ho, Mr. Basie!" (Basie) – 4:28
8. "What'cha Talkin'?" (Thad Jones) – 4:59

• Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on March 21, 1962 (tracks 2, 6 & 8), and March 22, 1962 (tracks 1, 3–5 & 7)

Personnel

• Count Basie – piano, organ
• Thad Jones – trumpet
• Frank Wess – flute, alto flute (tracks 2, 6 & 8)
• Frank Foster – tenor saxophone, clarinet (tracks 1, 3–5 & 7)
• Eric Dixon – tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet
• Freddie Green – guitar
• Eddie Jones – bass
• Sonny Payne – drums

Production

• Bob Thiele – producer
• Pete Turner – photography

References

1. Impulse! Records discography accessed March 16, 2011
2. Yanow, Scott. "Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 Review". AllMusic. Retrieved July 19, 2025.
3. Feather, Leonard G. (October 11, 1962). "Count Basie: Basie and the Kansas City Seven" (PDF). Down Beat . Vol. 29, no. 26. p. 30 – via worldradiohistory.com.
4. Watson, Jimmy (May 11, 1963). "Count Basie: Count Basie And The Kansas City" (PDF). New Record Mirror . No. 113. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 6, 2022. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
5. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 92. ISBN   978-0-14-103401-0.
6. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  20. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.