Kansas City 5

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Kansas City 5
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Studio album by
Count Basie
Released1977
RecordedJanuary 26, 1977
Genre Jazz
Length47:59
Label Pablo Today
Producer Norman Granz
Count Basie chronology
Prime Time
(1977)		Kansas City 5
(1977)		 The Gifted Ones
(1977)
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Kansas City 5 is a 1977 studio album by Count Basie. [1]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Jive at Five" (Count Basie, Harry "Sweets" Edison) – 5:30
  2. "One O'Clock Jump" (Basie) – 3:53
  3. "(We Ain't Got) No Special Thing" (Basie, Milt Jackson, Joe Pass) – 5:33
  4. "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) – 3:49
  5. "Frog's Blues" (Basie, Jackson, Pass) – 4:55
  6. "Rabbit" (Basie, Jackson, Pass) – 3:46
  7. "Perdido" (Ervin Drake, Hans J. Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) – 4:27
  8. "Timekeeper" (Basie, Jackson, Pass) – 5:12
  9. "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 5:00
  10. "Blues for Joe Turner" (Basie, Jackson) – 4:55

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. "Allmusic review". Allmusic . All Media Guide . Retrieved 2011-06-15.
  2. ↑ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 93. ISBN   978-0-14-103401-0.
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