Li'l Ol' Groovemaker...Basie!

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Li'l Ol' Groovemaker...Basie!
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Studio album by
Count Basie
Released1963
RecordedApril 21–22, 1963
Genre Jazz
Length86:39
Label Verve
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Li'l Ol' Groovemaker...Basie! is a 1963 album by Count Basie, composed and arranged by Quincy Jones. [3]

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 1⁄3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format widely used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Count Basie American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer

William James "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

Quincy Jones American record producer, conductor, arranger, composer, television producer, and trumpeter

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Track listing

  1. "Li'l Ol' Groovemaker" – 2:48
  2. "Pleasingly Plump" – 4:03
  3. "Boody Rumble" – 3:36
  4. "Belly Roll" – 2:29
  5. "Count 'Em" – 5:21
  6. "Nasty Magnus" – 6:04
  7. "Dum Dum" – 2:41
  8. "Lullaby for Jolie (Jolie Ann)" (Jones) – 2:29
  9. "Kansas City Wrinkles" (Jones) – 5:41

Personnel

The Count Basie Orchestra
Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Sonny Cohn American musician

George Theodore Cohn, known professionally as Sonny Cohn; was an American jazz trumpeter whose career spanned over six decades. After working four fifteen years with Red Saunders (1945–1960), Cohn went on to spend another twenty four years in Count Basie's trumpet section (1960–1984).

Albert Aarons was an American jazz trumpeter.

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