Recorded "Live" at Basin Street East

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Recorded "Live" at Basin Street East
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Released1963
Recorded1963, Basin Street East, New York City
Genre Vocal Jazz
Length40:43
Label RCA Victor
Producer George Avakian
Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan chronology
Recorded "Live" at Basin Street East
(1963)
At Newport '63
(1963)

Recorded "Live" at Basin Street East is an album by the jazz vocalese group Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan recorded at the New York City nightclub Basin Street East. The album features the group who had re-formed in 1963 featuring Dave Lambert and Jon Hendricks, with Yolande Bavan replacing Annie Ross who had left the group in 1962. [1]

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Scott Yanow, writing on AllMusic said of the album that "This recording finds Jon Hendricks and Dave Lambert in prime form, with Bavan doing her best to fit in (her accent does stand out, although her singing skills are impressive) ...The highlights include a classic rendition of "Doodlin'," John Coltrane's "Cousin Mary," Hendricks' humorous "Feed Me" and "Dis Hyunh" (really "This Here"). An entertaining performance overall, recorded during a three-day period." [1]

Track listing

  1. "This Could Be the Start of Something" (Steve Allen) - 3:08
  2. "Shiny Stockings" (Frank Foster, Jon Hendricks) - 4:37
  3. "Slightly Out of Tune (Desafinado)" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça, Hendricks) - 2:24
  4. "Doodlin'" (Horace Silver, Hendricks) - 3:30
  5. "Cousin Mary" (John Coltrane, Hendricks) - 3:43
  6. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, Hendricks) - 4:20
  7. "Feed Me" (Hendricks) - 2:38
  8. "One Note Samba" (Jobim, Mendonça, Hendricks) - 2:59
  9. "Melba's Blues" (Hendricks) - 4:09
  10. "This Here" (Bobby Timmons, Hendricks) - 3:29
  11. "Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home" (Hendricks) - 5:46

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Recorded "Live" at Basin Street East at AllMusic
  2. Watson, Jimmy (8 June 1963). "Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan: At Basin Street East" (PDF). New Record Mirror . No. 117. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.