• 2-CD SET EDITION
• INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

THE 1969 COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA CAPTURED IN BRILLIANT STEREO SOUND!

Count Basie’s career was revived in late1957 thanks to the success of the Neal Hefti-arranged LP Atomic Basie, which became one of his biggest hits. From then on, the Count Basie orchestra flourished as proven by the two 1969 complete club sets presented here, recorded within two weeks live at La Cabaret Casino in Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas, and at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas.

Among the outstanding soloists are the great Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Basie himself, and, on the Las Vegas engagement, guest star trumpet soloist Harry “Sweets” Edison. Most of the Bahamas tracks appear here for the first time ever on CD conforming one hour of new music!

PERSONNEL:

COUNT BASIE and His ORCHESTRA
ON CD ONE & CD TWO [1-6]: Sonny Cohn, Oscar Brashear, Gene Goe (tp), Al Aarons (tp, flh), Grover Mitchell (tb), Richard Boone (tb, vcl), Bill Hughes (b-tb), Marshall Royal (as, cl), Bobby Plater (as, fl), Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis (ts), Eric Dixon (ts, fl), Charlie Fowlkes (bar), Count Basie (p & cond), Freddie Green (g), Norman Keenan (b), Harold Jones (d). Chico O’Farrill, Sammy Nestico (arr).
Recorded live at La Cabaret Casino, Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas, February 12, 1969.

CD TWO [7-19]: Same personnel but add Harry “Sweets” Edison (tp) & Frank Hooks (tb).
Recorded live at the Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas, January 28, 29 & 30, 1969.

CD ONE (69:15 min)
01 Introduction to the first set (*)
02 ALL OF ME (*)
03 FRANKIE AND JOHNNY (*)
04 CUTE #1 (*)
05 LONELY STREET 3(*)
06 CHEROKEE (*)
07 DOES ANYONE EVER WIN? (*)
08 A NIGHT IN TUNISIA (*)
09 LI’L DARLIN’ #1 (*)
10 BLUES IN HOSS’ FLAT (*)
11 Introduction to the second set/SPLANKY
12 HITTIN’ TWELVE
13 ONE MINT JULEP
14 BYE BYE BLACKBIRD
15 THE MIDNIGHT SUN NEVER SETS (*)
16 BOONE TALK (*)
17 I GOT RHYTHM (*)
18 THE MAGIC FLEA (*)

CD TWO (70:44 min)
01 GOOD TIME BLUES
02 APRIL IN PARIS
03 BASIE
04 LI’L DARLIN’ #2
05 CUTE #2
06 ONE O’CLOCK JUMP #1
07 DOWN FOR DOUBLE
08 LI’L DARLIN’ #3
09 BROADWAY
10 JIVE AT FIVE
11 CHERRY POINT
12 JUMPIN’ AT THE WOODSIDE
13 ONE O’CLOCK JUMP #2
14 SHINY STOCKINGS
15 BLUE AND SENTIMENTAL
16 EVERY TUB
17 CORNER POCKET
18 THE KID FROM RED BANK
19 ONE O’CLOCK JUMP #3

(*) FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON CD!