Dance Session

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Dance Session
Dance Session.jpg
Studio album by
Count Basie
Released1954
RecordedAugust 13 and December 12, 1953
Los Angeles, CA and Fine Sound, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length34:39
Label Clef
MG C-626
Producer Norman Granz
Count Basie chronology
Basie Rides Again!
(1952)		Dance Session
(1954)		 Dance Session Album #2
(1954)

Dance Session is an album by pianist/bandleader Count Basie recorded in 1953 and became Basie's first 12-inch LP when it was originally released on the Clef label. [1] [2] [3] [4] Selections from this album were also released on the 1956 Clef LPs Basie Roars Again and King of Swing.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Straight Life" (Johnny Mandel) - 4:33
  2. "Basie Goes Wess" (Frank Wess) - 3:52
  3. "Softly, With Feeling" (Neal Hefti) - 3:05
  4. "Peace Pipe" (Ernie Wilkins) - 2:28
  5. "Blues Go Away!" (Wilkins) - 3:19
  6. "Cherry Point" (Hefti) - 3:19
  7. "Bubbles" (Hefti) - 4:05
  8. "Right On" (Freddie Green) - 2:39
  9. "The Blues Done Come Back" (Wilkins) - 3:37
  10. "Plymouth Rock" (Hefti) - 3:42

Recorded in Los Angeles, CA on August 13 (tracks 5 & 10) and at Fine Sound Studios in New York City on December 12 (tracks 1-4 & 6–9), 1953

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. Clef Label Discography, accessed November 18, 2015
  2. ↑ Kitora, R., Count Basie Discography, accessed November 18, 2015
  3. ↑ Clef Records Catalog: 600 series, accessed November 18, 2015
  4. ↑ Big Band Paradise Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine , accessed November 18, 2015
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