Mostly Blues...and Some Others

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Mostly Blues...and Some Others
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Studio album by
Released1986
RecordedJune 22, 1983
Genre Jazz
Length44:42
Label Pablo
Producer Norman Granz
Count Basie chronology
Me and You
(1983)
Mostly Blues...and Some Others
(1986)
Fancy Pants
(1983)
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Mostly Blues...and Some Others is a 1983 studio album by Count Basie. [3] This was his last small-group recording. It was released in 1986, two years after his death in 1984.

Contents

Track listing

1. "I'll Always Be in Love with You" (Bud Green, Ruby, Sam H. Stept) – 5:57
(Note: the actual length of "I'll Always Be in Love with You" is 08:13 in spite of the official Pablo information)
2. "Snooky" (Count Basie) – 3:42
3. "Blues for Charlie Christian" (Basie) – 5:24
4. "Jaws" (Basie) – 5:34
5. "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Doc Daugherty, Al J. Neiburg, Ellis Reynolds) – 4:29
6. "I Want a Little Girl" (Murray Mencher, Billy Moll) – 4:58
7. "Blues in C" (Louis Bellson, Benny Carter, Art Tatum) – 6:58
8. "Brio" (Basie, Joe Pass) – 4:42

Personnel

Known as "The Kansas City Septem"

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. Mostly Blues...avnd Some Others at AllMusic