Release Date: 10 July 2020
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436559467605
Genres: Jazz Vocal Jazz
Description
Essential Jazz Classics
COUNT BASIE & JOE WILLIAMS
'COUNT BASIE SWINGS, JOE WILLIAMS SINGS' + 'THE GREATEST!! COUNT BASIE PLAYS, JOE WILLIAMS SINGS STANDARDS'
2 LPs ON 1 CD - 6-PANEL DIGIPAK COLLECTORS LIMITED EDITION – INCLUDES INSIDE BOOKLET WITH UPDATED LINER NOTES
Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (Clef MG C-678) was the first album featuring Joe Williams (1918-1999) as the vocalist of the Count Basie orchestra. Basie and Williams' first real encounter would take place in 1954, and from that year until 1961, Williams remained the singer for the band, rising to national prominence with Basie. "Every Day I Have the Blues", taped in 1955, was one of his many hit sides (it was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame for recordings of particular historical or qualitative importance in 1992). The complete Basie/Williams LP The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards (Verve MG V-2016), as well as the only existing alternate take from that album and two further rare collaborations between pianist and singer have been added as a bonus.
JOE WILLIAMS, vocals on all tracks
COUNT BASIE & His Orchestra
Wendell Culley, Reunald Jones, Thad Jones, Joe Newman (tp),
Henry Coker, Bill Hughes, Benny Powell (tb), Marshall Royal (as,
cl), Bill Graham (as), Frank Wess (ts, fl), Frank Foster (ts), Charlie
Fowlkes (bar), Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (g), Eddie Jones (b),
Sonny Payne (d). Arrangements by Frank Foster & Ernie Wilkins.
Fine Studios, New York, May 17 & July 26, 1955.
*BONUS ALBUM (10-22): The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays,
Joe Williams Sings Standards: Same personnel as above.
Arrangements by Buddy Bregman. Capitol Studios, Los Angeles,
April 28 & May 1, 1956.
**BONUS TRACKS (23-24): Same personnel as above. Universal
Recordings Group, Chicago, January 23, 1956. Originally issued on the
Verve 7" single MGV-2004.
INCLUDES All original sessions produced by Norman Granz.
Tracklisting
Stan Getz
Steve Lacy
Booker Little
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Chet Baker
Harry James
Nina Simone
Coleman Hawkins
Count Basie & Joe Williams
Count Basie & Joe Williams
