Montreux '77 (Count Basie album)

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Montreux '77
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Live album by
Count Basie
Released1977
RecordedJuly 15, 1977
Genre Jazz
Length42:24
Label Pablo
Producer Norman Granz
Count Basie chronology
Prime Time
(1976)		Montreux '77
(1977)		 Live in Japan '78
(1978)
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Montreux '77 is an album by Count Basie and his orchestra, recorded at the 1977 Montreux Jazz Festival. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Heat's On" (Sammy Nestico) – 3:39
  2. "Freckle Face" (Nestico) – 6:04
  3. "Splanky" (Neal Hefti) – 4:34
  4. "The More I See You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 3:41
  5. "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 4:53
  6. "Hittin' 12" (Harrison) – 2:23
  7. "Bag of Dreams" (Jimmy Forrest) – 6:14
  8. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 4:14
  9. "I Needs to Be Bee'd With" (Quincy Jones) – 5:07
  10. "Li'l Darlin'" (Hefti) – 4:44
  11. "Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Count Basie, Jon Hendricks) – 3:50
  12. "One O'Clock Jump" (Basie) – 3:28

Personnel

The Count Basie Orchestra

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 94. ISBN   978-0-14-103401-0.
  3. ↑ Montreux '77 at AllMusic
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