The Complete Roulette Studio Recordings of Count Basie and His Orchestra

Compilation by Count Basie & His Orchestra

Released 1993

big band jazz swing

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You
2:31
2
Love Me Baby
3:59
3
Confessin’ the Blues
2:48
4
J and B
2:46
5
Flight of the Foo Birds
3:23
6
Double-O
2:46
7
L’il Darlin’
4:50
5.0 ★
8
Whirly-Birds
3:51
9
Duet
4:11
10
The Kid From Red Bank
2:41
11
Midnight Blue
4:28
12
Teddy the Toad
3:19
13
The Late Late Show (vocal version)
3:03
14
Silks and Satins
4:05
15
Sleepwalker’s Serenade (alternate take)
3:36
16
Sleepwalker’s Serenade
3:38
17
The Late Late Show
2:51
18
Splanky
3:36
CD 2
1
Fan Tail
2:56
2
After Supper
3:25
3
Blues in Hoss’ Flat
3:13
4
H.R.H. (Her Royal Highness)
2:40
5
How Can You Lose
2:34
6
Five O’Clock in the Morning
3:15
7
Pensive Miss
3:50
8
Bag a’ Bones
2:44
9
Has Anyone Here Seen Basie?
2:43
10
Scoot
2:30
11
Sloo-Foot
3:09
12
Pony Tail
3:01
13
Late Date
3:19
14
Hallelujah I Love Her So
2:53
15
A Little Tempo Please
2:38
16
Count Down
2:47
17
It's Awf’ly Nice to Be With You
3:34
18
Cute
3:13
19
Moten Swing
4:51
CD 3
1
Half Moon Street
3:25
2
Who Me
5:13
3
Ol’ Man River
5:35
4
Kansas City Shout
3:34
5
Mutt & Jeff
3:39
6
Fair and Warmer
3:35
7
M-Squad Theme
2:29
8
Tell Me Your Troubles
2:57
9
Imagination
3:04
10
The Deacon
4:49
11
Speaking of Sounds
3:28
12
Segue in C
6:15
13
T.V. Time
3:16
14
Rat Race
2:41
15
For Lena and Lennie
3:50
16
The Big Walk
3:00
17
The Midnite Sun Never Sets
3:37
CD 4
1
Meet B. B.
3:29
2
A Square at the Roundtable
2:18
3
Muttnik
5:27
4
Jessica’s Day
4:27
5
Quince
3:58
6
I Need to Be Bee’d With
3:32
7
What Did You Win
2:17
8
Cherry Red
2:53
9
Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home
1:58
10
Everyday I Have the Blues
4:43
11
Ain’t No Use
2:56
12
Shake, Rattle and Roll
2:14
13
Good Mornin’ Blues
2:51
14
Just a Dream
2:53
15
It's a Low Down Dirty Shame
5:27
16
It Had to Be You
2:57
17
Back to the Apple
4:42
CD 5
1
Give Me the Simple Life
3:37
2
It’s a Pity to Say Goodnight
3:40
3
Fools Rush In
3:13
4
Makin’ Whoopee
4:05
5
Easy Living
3:37
6
(Once I Had A) Secret Love
3:19
7
Can’t We Be Friends?
5:24
8
Misty
3:37
9
How Am I to Know?
2:30
10
The Daly Jump
4:10
11
Out the Window
2:52
12
Texas Shuffle
3:12
13
Topsy
3:42
14
Swingin’ the Blues
3:15
15
Mama’s Talkin’ Soft
4:29
16
Tickle Toe
2:35
17
Back to the Apple
4:45
18
Jumpin’ at the Woodside
3:11
CD 6
1
Lester Leaps In
4:17
2
Shorty George
2:56
3
Blue and Sentimental
4:06
4
Doggin’ Around
3:01
5
Down for Double
3:00
6
Rare Butterfly
4:39
7
Blue on Blue
2:52
8
Not Now, I’ll Tell You When
3:40
9
9:20 Special
3:48
10
Taps Miller
3:22
11
Avenue C
2:33
12
Red Bank Boogie
2:13
13
Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)
3:04
14
Sent for You Yesterday
3:09
15
Broadway
3:22
16
Swingin’ at the Waldorf
3:43
17
Sweet and Purty
3:25
18
Ol’ Man River
4:54
19
Dickie’s Dream
4:07
CD 7
1
Rock-A-Bye Basie
3:38
2
Every Tub
3:10
3
Jive at Five
3:02
4
Time Out
2:44
5
Trav’lin’ Light
3:53
6
Mean Old World
4:41
7
Confessin’ the Blues
3:59
8
Night Time Is the Right Time (When the Sun Goes Down)
6:05
9
Keep Your Hand on Your Heart
3:23
10
Chains of Love
3:32
11
Mean Mistreater
3:54
12
Key to the Highway
2:52
13
Lyin’ Woman
3:11
14
Tomorrow Night
3:27
15
The Wiggle Walk
3:55
16
Katy Do
4:23
17
Meetin’ Time
3:28
CD 8
1
Jackson County Jubilee
2:32
2
Vine Street Rumble
3:41
3
Paseo Promenade
3:26
4
Blue Five Jive
3:59
5
Miss Missouri
5:19
6
Rompin’ at the Reno
2:20
7
Sunset Glow
2:29
8
Miss Lovely
4:09
9
Loneliness
3:40
10
Blues for Daddy-O
8:55
11
Discommotion
4:41
12
Unbeknownst
4:36
13
Easin’ It
6:12
14
Brotherly Shove
3:16
15
Red Hot Mama
3:37
16
Goin’ On
4:27
CD 9
1
The Legend
4:38
2
The Trot
3:10
3
The Basie Twist
2:24
4
The Swizzle
3:33
5
Who’s Blue
4:33
6
Turnabout
3:59
7
Amoroso
3:50
8
Easy Money
5:22
9
Yes Sir, That’s My Baby
2:31
10
Untouchable
3:16
11
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
2:54
12
Backwater Blues
3:42
13
The Elder
6:56
14
Four, Five, Six
4:39
15
Toot Sweet
3:20
16
Summer Frost
3:09
17
The Song Is You
2:31
18
I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)
3:17
CD 10
1
Them That’s Got
3:12
2
It Won’t Be Long
3:00
3
Matte Jersey
4:00
4
Molasses
6:16
5
Thanks for the Ride
3:44
6
The Third Stage
2:50
7
I Gotcha
5:29
8
The Touch of Your Lips
3:18
9
Bluish Grey
4:56
10
It’s About That Time
4:17
11
Mama Dev Blues
4:44
12
Peppermint Pipes
3:18
13
One Note Samba
4:11
14
Basie’s Jingle Bells
2:23
15
Lullaby of Birdland
4:46
16
Misunderstood Blues
6:04

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Release credits

Al Aarons
trumpet [8.16, 9.1-18, 10.1-16]
Al Grey
trombone [6.1-19, 2.1-13, 2.15-19, 1.5-18, 3.1-17, 8.1-15, 7.1-17, 4.1-14, 4.16-17, 5.1-18]
Art Davis
double bass [10.1-2, 9.13-18]
Benny Powell
trombone [7.1-17, 3.1-17, 2.1-13, 2.15-19, 6.1-19, 8.1-16, 10.1-16, 1.1-18, 5.1-18, 9.1-18, 4.1-14, 4.16-17]
Bill Hughes
trombone [1-4]
Billy Mitchell
saxophone [16-17], tenor saxophone [6.1-19, 8.1-15, 5.1-18, 7.1-17, 4.1-14, 4.16-17, 2.3-13, 2.15-19, 3.1-17]
Bob Arnold
recording [5, 9-10, 12-14, 18]
Charlie Fowlkes
baritone saxophone [8.1-16, 5.1-18, 9.1-18, 6.1-19, 3.1-17, 10.1-16, 2.1-13, 2.15-19, 4.1-14, 4.16-17, 7.1-17, 1.1-18], reeds [10, 12-14], saxophone [16-17]
Count Basie
piano [4.1-14, 4.16-17, 1.1-18, 6.1-19, 9.1-18, 10.1-16, 3.1-17, 2.1-13, 2.15-19, 7.1-17, 5.1-18, 8.1-16]
Dizzy Gillespie
cowbell [7]
Eddie Jones
bass [2.7-13, 2.15-18, 3.16-17], double bass [1.1-18, 3.1-17, 9.1-12, 4.1-14, 4.16-17, 7.1-17, 2.1-13, 2.15-19, 6.1-19, 8.1-16, 5.1-18]
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
reeds [10, 12-14], tenor saxophone [1.1-18, 2.1-2]
Eric Dixon
woodwind [10.1-16, 8.16, 9.1-18]
Fortunatus Paul "Fip" Ricard
trumpet [9.17-18, 10.1-16]
Frank Foster
reeds [10, 12-14], saxophone [16-17], tenor saxophone [10.1-16, 3.1-17, 2.1-13, 2.15-19, 6.1-12, 6.16-19, 5.1-18, 7.1-17, 9.1-18, 8.1-16, 4.1-14, 4.16-17, 1.1-18]
Frank Wess
alto saxophone [1.1-18, 2.1-3], flute [2.1-4, 2.19, 1.1-18, 3.1-2, 3.4-6, 3.10-11], reeds [10, 12-14], saxophone [16-17], woodwind [10.1-16, 9.1-18, 3.1-17, 5.1-18, 6.1-19, 7.1-17, 2.1, 2.4-13, 2.15-19, 8.1-16, 1.6-12, 1.18, 4.3-14, 4.16-17]
Freddie Green
guitar [5.1-18, 6.1-19, 10.1-16, 3.1-17, 2.1-13, 2.15-19, 4.1-14, 4.16-17, 7.1-17, 1.1-18, 8.1-15, 9.13-18]
Gus Johnson
drums (drum set) [10.1-2, 9.17-18]
Henry Coker
trombone [10.1-16, 8.1-16, 2.1-13, 2.15-19, 5.1-18, 3.1-17, 9.1-18, 4.1-14, 4.16-17, 1.1-18, 6.1-19, 7.1-17]
Ike Isaacs
double bass [6-16]
Jimmy Mundy
arranger [14]
Joe Newman
trumpet [4.1-14, 4.16-17, 1.1-18, 6.1-19, 2.1-13, 2.15-19, 5.1-18, 3.1-17, 7.1-17, 8.1-15]
Joe Williams
vocal [1, 3, 13]
Louie Bellson
drums (drum set) [8-16]
Major Holley
double bass [3-5]
Marshall Royal
alto saxophone [1.1-18, 10.1-16, 8.16, 2.1-3, 9.1-18], reeds [6.1-19, 2.1, 2.4-13, 2.15-19, 4.1-14, 4.16-17, 5.1-18, 7.1-17, 3.1-17, 1.6-8, 1.10-14, 8.1-15], saxophone [3.1-2, 3.4-6, 3.10-11, 3.16-17, 2.3-4, 2.19]
Neal Hefti
arranger [5, 9-10, 12, 18]
Quentin Jackson
trombone [8.16, 9.1-18, 10.1-16]
Ralph Sharon
arranger [2], piano [2]
Rudy Taylor
producer [15-17]
Snooky Young
trumpet [2.1-13, 2.15-19, 6.1-19, 9.1-16, 4.1-14, 4.16-17, 5.1-18, 1.1-18, 3.1-17, 8.1-16, 7.1-17]
Sonny Cohn
trumpet [8.1-16, 9.1-18, 6.1-19, 5.8-18, 10.1-16, 7.1-17]
Sonny Payne
drums (drum set) [5.1-18, 10.3-7, 9.1-16, 4.1-14, 4.16-17, 8.1-16, 3.1-17, 1.1-6, 1.6-7, 1.7-8, 1.8-18, 2.1, 2.1-13, 2.15-19, 6.1-19, 7.1-17]
Teddy Reig
producer [2.2-4, 2.19, 1.5, 1.9-10, 1.12-14, 1.18, 3.1-2, 3.4-6, 3.10-11]
Thad Jones
trumpet [5.1-18, 10.1-16, 1.1-18, 2.1-13, 2.15-19, 4.1-14, 4.16-17, 3.1-17, 6.1-19, 8.1-16, 9.1-18, 7.1-17]
Tony Bennett
vocal [2]
Wendell Culley
trumpet [4.1-14, 4.16-17, 5.1-7, 3.1-17, 1.1-18, 2.1-13, 2.15-19]

Issues

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The Complete Roulette Studio Recordings of Count Basie and His Orchestra
10x CD
1993