Count Basie and the Kansas City 7

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Count Basie and the Kansas City 7
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Studio album by
Count Basie
Released1962
RecordedMarch 21 & 22, 1962
Studio Van Gelder (Englewood Cliffs)
Genre Jazz
Length35:57
Label Impulse!
Producer Bob Thiele
Count Basie chronology
The Legend
(1961)		Count Basie and the Kansas City 7
(1962)		 Easin' It
(1962)

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]

Contents

Reception

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]

Professional ratings
Review scores
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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

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Impulse! Records discography accessed March 16, 2011
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed March 16, 2011
  3. 1 2 Down Beat: October 11, 1962 vol. 29, no. 26
  4. ↑ Watson, Jimmy (11 May 1963). "Count Basie: Count Basie And The Kansas City" (PDF). New Record Mirror . No. 113. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-07-06. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  5. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  20. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  6. ↑ 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.
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