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April in Paris is an album by pianist/bandleader Count Basie and His Orchestra, his first released on the Verve label, recorded in 1955 and 1956. [1] [2] [3] [4]The title track was included in the soundtrack of the 2008 video game release Grand Theft Auto IV on the fictitious in-game jazz music radio station "JNR 108.5 (Jazz Nation Radio)".
Ella and Basie! is a 1963 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra, ... "Shiny Stockings" (Frank Foster, Ella Fitzgerald) – 3:30
Frank Benjamin Foster III (September 23, 1928 – July 26, 2011) was an American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer. [1] Foster collaborated frequently with Count Basie and worked as a bandleader from the early 1950s. [2]
"A Bit of This and a Bit of That" (Count Basie, Wood) – 3:41 "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 3:06 "Shiny Stockings" (Frank Foster) – 4:37 "Left Hand Funk" (Nestico, Jeff Steinberg) – 5:51 "John the III" (Bobby Plater) – 3:56 "Basie" (Ernie Wilkins) – 4:52 "Black Velvet" (Illinois Jacquet, Nestico) – 3:54
It also helped the Basie Band to catch up in Britain, preparing the ground for the forthcoming 'Atomic' recordings. The Basie Was Here EP (SEB10083) featuring part of the same cover shot was released for the same purpose, as had been the Basie's Back in Town EP (SEB10070). The latter's sleeve note name checks the April 1957 British dates ...
The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936. Despite a brief disbandment at the beginning of the 1950s, the band survived long past the big band era itself and the death of Basie in 1984.
"Shiny Stockings" (Frank Foster) – 4:05 "You Stepped Out of a Dream" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn) – 3:05; Personnel. Performance. Oscar Peterson – piano;
Homage to Count Basie is an album by the Bob Mintzer Big Band that won the Grammy Award for Best ... "Shiny Stockings" 7:44: 7. "Home Basie" Bob Mintzer: 4:11: 8 ...