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America's #1 Band: The Columbia Years | 
 enlarge | Artist: Count Basie
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $44.98
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 13581
Format: Box Set, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 87110
UPC: 696998711020
EAN: 0696998711020
ASIN: B0000C9JDU
Release Date: September 23, 2003
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Disc 1
| • | Shoe Shine Boy - Count Basie, Cahn, Sammy | | • | Evenin' - Count Basie, Parish, Mitchell | | • | Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong) - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Oh, Lady Be Good - Count Basie, Gershwin, George | | • | I Ain't Got Nobody - Count Basie, Graham, Roger | | • | Goin' to Chicago Blues - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Live and Love Tonight - Count Basie, Coslow, Sam | | • | Love Me or Leave Me - Count Basie, Donaldson, Walter | | • | Dickie's Dream - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Lester Leaps In - Count Basie, Young, Lester | | • | How Long Blues - Count Basie, Carr, Leroy | | • | Royal Garden Blues - Count Basie, Williams, Clarence | | • | Bugle Blues - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Sugar Blues - Count Basie, Fletcher, Lucy | | • | Farewell Blues - Count Basie, Mares, Paul | | • | Cafe Society Blues - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Way Back Blues - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | St. Louis Blues - Count Basie, Handy, W.C. | | • | Neal's Deal - Count Basie, Hefti, Neal | | • | Bluebeard Blues - Count Basie, Hefti, Neal | | • | Golden Bullet - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | You're My Baby, You - Count Basie, Astor |
Disc 2
| • | Song of the Islands - Count Basie, King, Charles [Voca | | • | These Foolish Things - Count Basie, Link, Harry | | • | I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) - Count Basie, Daugherty, Doc | | • | One O'Clock Jump - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | I Ain't Got Nobody - Count Basie, Graham, Roger | | • | Little White Lies - Count Basie, Donaldson, Walter | | • | I'll Remember April - Count Basie, Raye, Don | | • | Tootsie - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Rock-A-Bye Basie - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | One Hour - Count Basie, Creamer, Henry | | • | Taxi War Dance - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Twelfth Street Rag - Count Basie, Bowman, Euday L. | | • | Miss Thing, Pt. 1 - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Miss Thing, Pt. 2 - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Nobody Knows - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Pound Cake - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Song of the Islands - Count Basie, King, Charles E. | | • | Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie - Count Basie, MacDonald, Ballard | | • | Tickle Toe - Count Basie, Young, Lester | | • | Louisiana - Count Basie, Johnson, J.C. | | • | Easy Does It - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Somebody Stole My Gal - Count Basie, Wood, Leo | | • | I Want a Little Girl - Count Basie, Mencher, Murray |
Disc 3
| • | Five O'Clock Whistle - Count Basie, Gannon, Kim | | • | Broadway - Count Basie, Woode, Henri | | • | It's the Same Old South - Count Basie, Eliscu, Edward | | • | Jump the Blues Away - Count Basie, Lewis, Ed | | • | The Jitters - Count Basie, Smith, Tab | | • | 9:20 Special - Count Basie, Engvick, William | | • | Goin' to Chicago Blues - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Harvard Blues - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | One O'Clock Jump - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | It's Sand, Man - Count Basie, Lewis, Edward | | • | Ain't It the Truth - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Taps Miller - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Avenue C - Count Basie, Clayton, Buck | | • | Blue Skies - Count Basie, Berlin, Irving | | • | Queer Street - Count Basie, Clayton, Buck | | • | Lazy Lady Blues - Count Basie, Feather, Leonard | | • | Rambo - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | The King - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Hob Nail Boogie - Count Basie, Harding, Buster | | • | Mutton Leg - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Stay on It - Count Basie, Gillespie, Dizzy | | • | Little Pony - Count Basie, Hefti, Neal | | • | Beaver Junction - Count Basie, Edison, Harry "Swee |
Disc 4
| • | One O'Clock Jump - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Swingin' the Blues - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Rock-A-Bye Basie - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | Don't Worry 'Bout Me - Count Basie, Koehler, Ted | | • | Time Out - Count Basie, Battle, Edgar | | • | Boogie Woogie Blues - Count Basie, Smith, Clarence | | • | Roseland Shuffle - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | White Sails - Count Basie, Kenny, Nick | | • | Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie - Count Basie, MacDonald, Ballard | | • | One O'Clock Jump - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | They Can't Take That Away from Me - Count Basie, Gershwin, George | | • | Swing, Brother, Swing - Count Basie, Raymond, Lewis | | • | I Can't Get Started - Count Basie, Duke, Vernon | | • | Moten Swing - Count Basie, Moten, Bennie | | • | Ebony Rhapsody - Count Basie, Coslow, Sam | | • | Darn That Dream - Count Basie, DeLange, Eddie | | • | Take It, Pres - Count Basie, | | • | Baby, Don't Tell on Me - Count Basie, Basie, Count | | • | I Got Rhythm - Count Basie, Gershwin, George | | • | 9:20 Special - Count Basie, Engvick, William | | • | Elmer's Tune - Count Basie, Jurgens, Dick | | • | Jumpin' at the Woodside - Count Basie, Basie, Count |
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| Customer Reviews:
A+ for the Basie Cats! and AMAZINGLY, the Columbia guys got it right. May 19, 2006
Michael A. Ventresco (NYC)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I don't have to tell anyone how great these tracks are. How does one guy get all 16 of the greatest swing musicians in the world into one band? This set has some Great surprises: Live sides, and rare alternates, like "It's The Same Old South", (a different take than the version on the vinyl "Superchief")
I have several of these on the ARC/Columbia family of labels (Vocallion, Brunswick, Okey, etc.) both 78s and Lps. and have been trying and failing to replace them with decent CD copies. COLUMBIA FINNALLY GOT IT RIGHT!. This set is a pleasure, and for once, it sounds great! You will NEVER be dissapointed with this purchace.
Now if Columbia would refund everybody's money for the unlistenable versions of these tunes they issued on the "Essential" series, and the "This Is Jazz" series etc., we could use it to replace our copies of the Armstrong Hot Fives that they had previous butchered, or the Bix, ...it goes on .....
A Great Overview Of These Years June 25, 2005
Original Mixed Up-Kid (New York United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A welcome addition in a lovely box with all the beauty of great sound,a 90 page book, a great disc of live material/broadcasts makes this a needed addition to any Basie lover..I also have the Columbia's Essential collections spanning 3 discs but this here is a needed bonus and is still not a substitute for those under rated discs put out earlier...Such a prolific man deserves royal treatment and does some justice to the earlier output..but obviously other reviewers will give you more detail as to songs selection and musicians I just wanted to add appreciation..
Seeking Intro to Swing? Start Here February 26, 2005
Books & Music (New York, NY)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a truly great package which you will find yourself listening to again and again. As others mentioned, the four discs here cover several of Basie's bands, so what you get is not simply 90 songs from a single band, which would get quite boring no matter how great any individual band was, but rather choice cuts from different bands of different size and composition over a twenty year period. The result is four discs each with their own distinct sound, each providing a different snapshot of the evolution of swing under Basie.
While historians might object, the arrangement of the songs is great too from the standpoint of a pure listening experience, with the first two discs being Basie's smaller groups, and the latter two being the larger Count Basie Orchestra. While the Orchestra is the most famous of these bands, and is outstanding in its own right, the best material here is from the small groups. The sound is less polished than it would become years later, but there's a raw energy to the Basie Octet that can't be matched.
The sound throughout the package is amazing. Full bass, minimal hiss, and not tinny. If only all music from this era could be remastered so well.
This is fun music, not the over-intellectualized jazz that sends people from the room. Well worth the investment if you want an overview of swing at its best.
Stellar release September 27, 2004
Blues Bro (Lakewood, Colorado USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the best these sides have sounded ever, period. It is really a treat to hear the early Basie band with Lester Young in all its glory. The sound restoration on some of these tracks is just unbelievable, I had to check the linear notes to make sure these were the 1940 recordigs, because they sounded so different to the muddy/scratchy sound I grew used to. The linear notes alone are worth the price of this box set. And one full disc of most unreleased live tracks, many with Lester Young and Billie Holiday? You do the math. Many people, i am not included, are waiting for the full Columbia sessions remastered, but for me, this is what I have been waiting many years. The track secuence is annoying, I still cant understand why not doing it chronological, but its just a minor flaw.
Great collection of classic jazz and swing September 14, 2004
Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com (...in Middle America)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is a swell 4-CD box set that covers all of Basie's studio work for the Columbia label, from 1936-51, working in a variety of configurations, from small combos to the full-on Basie Orchestra, including several songs with Basie backing up Billie Holiday, and plenty of other vocal tunes featuring Basie regulars Helen Humes and Jimmy Rushing. This collection also marks the first time Columbia has officially delved into the wealth of live transcription performances and radio broadcasts featuring the Basie band... This material was previously the sole province of various European collector labels; Sony shows it's able to do this material up right, with meticulous scholarship and great sound quality. Doubtless, many of the sniffier jazz scholars will find some reason or another to pooh-pooh this collection, but for us regular folks, it's mighty tasty. Recommended!
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