Count Basie

ONE OF THE ICONIC ALBUMS BY THE NEW TESTAMENT BASIE BAND !

4 STARS DOWN BEAT MAGAZINE:
"This is still a roaring jazz band, the best for the blues non existence" - Nat Hentoff

COUNT BASIE AND HIS ORCHESTRA:

Thad Jones, Reunald Jones, Joe Newman, Wendell Culley (tp)
Henry Coker, Bill Hughes, Benny Powell (tb)
Marshal Royal (cl, as)
Bill Graham (as)
Frank Wess (as, ts, fl, cl)
Frank Foster (ts, cl),
Charlie Fowlkes (bar, b-cl)
Count Basie (p)
Freddie Green (g)
Eddie Jones (b
Sonny Payne (d).
José Mengual and Ubaldo Nieto (perc) added on “Mambo Inn” only.

“Midgets” features the sextet of Joe Newman (tp), Frank Wess (fl),
Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (g), Eddie Jones (b), Sonny Payne (d).

New York, July 26, 1955 (tracks A1-A4);
January 4 (tracks A5, B1-B3) &
January 5 (tracks B4-B6), 1956.

SIDE A:
1) APRIL IN PARIS (Duke-Harburg) 3:47
2) CORNER POCKET (Green-Wolf) 5:15
3) DIDN’T YOU? (Count Basie) 4:43
4) SWEETIE CAKES (Count Basie) 3:58
5) MAGIC (Frank Wess) 3:03

SIDE B:
1) SHINY STOCKINGS (Frank Foster) 5:14
2) WHAT AM I HERE FOR? (Duke Ellington) 3:19
3) MIDGETS (Count Basie) 3:13
4) MAMBO INN (Bauza-Sampson-Woodlen) 3:23
5) DINNER WITH FRIENDS (Neal Hefti) 3:05
6) BIG RED (Count Basie) 3:45*

*Bonus track. From the same sessions. Not on the original LP.