Kansas City 8: Get Together

Kansas City 8: Get Together
Studio album by Count Basie
Released	1979
Recorded	September 4, 1979
Genre	Jazz
Length	43:41
Label	Pablo
Producer	Norman Granz
Count Basie chronology
A Perfect Match (1979) Kansas City 8: Get Together (1979) Kansas City Shout (1980)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[2]
Windsor Star	B [3]

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Track listing

1. "Ode to Pres" (Clark Terry) – 4:07
2. "Basie's Bag" (Count Basie, Ernie Wilkins) – 9:45
3. "Swinging on the Cusp" (Terry) – 5:41
4. "Like It Used to Be" (Basie) – 8:29
5. "My Main Men" (Basie) – 6:10
6. "Pretty Time: "I Can't Get Started"/"What Will I Tell My Heart"/"Talk of the Town"/"I Can't Give You Anything But Love"/"I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke)/(Irving Gordon, Jack Lawrence, Peter Tinturin)/(Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields)(Doc Daugherty, Al J. Neiburg, Ellis Reynolds) – 9:35

Personnel

• Count Basie - piano
• Budd Johnson - baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - tenor saxophone
• Clark Terry - trumpet, flugelhorn
• Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet
• Freddie Green - guitar
• John Clayton - double bass
• Gus Johnson - drums

References

1. "AllMusic review". AllMusic . All Media Guide . Retrieved June 15, 2011.
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.
3. Stevens, Peter (November 28, 1987). "Jazz". Windsor Star. p. C2.
4. Smith, Will (November 29, 1987). "Basie LPs Range from 4 1/2 Stars to Merely 'Nice'". Entertainment. Omaha World-Herald. p. 1.