Kansas City 8: Get Together

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Kansas City 8: Get Together
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Studio album by
Count Basie
Released1979
RecordedSeptember 4, 1979
Genre Jazz
Length43:41
Label Pablo
Producer Norman Granz
Count Basie chronology
A Perfect Match
(1979)		Kansas City 8: Get Together
(1979)		 Kansas City Shout
(1980)
Professional ratings
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Windsor Star B [3]

Kansas City 8: Get Together is a 1979 studio album by Count Basie. [1] [4]

Contents

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

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References

  1. 1 2 "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.
  3. ↑ Stevens, Peter (28 Nov 1987). "Jazz". Windsor Star. p. C2.
  4. ↑ Smith, Will (29 Nov 1987). "Basie LPs Range from 4 1/2 Stars to Merely 'Nice'". Entertainment. Omaha World-Herald. p. 1.
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