First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

Tracklist

• 1
  Battle Royal
  5:35
• 2
  To You
  3:55
• 3
  Take the A Train
  3:47
• 4
  Corner Pocket (aka Until I Met You)
  4:55
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Wild Man (aka Wild Man Moore)
  6:23
• 6
  Segue in C
  8:22
• 7
  B D B
  4:44
• 8
  Jumpin’ at the Woodside
  3:13
• 9
  One More Once
  3:26
• 10
  Take the A Train (The Count Departs) (rehearsal & alternate takes)
  5:50
• 11
  Jumpin’ at the Woodside (alternate take)
  3:14
• 12
  B D B (alternate take)
  4:30
• 13
  Blues in Hoss’ Flat (Blues in Frankie’s Flat)
  3:14
• 14
  Wild Man (aka Wild Man Moore) (alternate take)
  5:56
• 15
  Battle Royal (rehearsal & alternate takes)
  6:31
• 16
  (pause track)
  0:06

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Release credits

• Aaron Bell
  bass [5, 9, 11, 14-15], double bass [1-2, 4, 8]
• Andrew “Fats” Ford
  trumpet [1-15]
• Benny Powell
  trombone [1-15]
• Billy Strayhorn
  piano [3, 10], solo [3, 10]
• Budd Johnson
  solo [3, 6, 9], tenor saxophone [1-15]
• Charlie Fowlkes
  baritone saxophone [1-15], solo [15]
• Count Basie
  piano [1-2, 4-8, 12-13, 15], solo [1, 7-8, 12, 15]
• Duke Ellington
  piano [1, 3-8, 10-12, 15], solo [1, 7, 12]
• Ed Mullens
  trumpet [1-15]
• Eddie Jones
  bass [10-13], double bass [2-4, 6-8]
• Frank Foster
  solo [1, 5, 8-9, 11, 13-14], tenor saxophone [1-15]
• Frank Wess
  flute [1-15], reeds [1-15], solo [5-6, 9, 14-15], tenor saxophone [1-15]
• Freddie Green
  guitar [1-15]
• Harry Carney
  baritone saxophone [1-15], solo [1, 15]
• Henry Coker
  trombone [1-15]
• Jimmy Hamilton
  clarinet [1-8, 10-15], solo [1, 3, 9-10], tenor saxophone [9]
• Johnny Hodges
  alto saxophone [1-15]
• Juan Tizol
  tambourine [5, 14], valve trombone [1-15]
• Lawrence Brown
  solo [6-7, 12], trombone [1-15]
• Lennie Johnson
  trumpet [1-3, 6-8]
• Lonnie Johnson
  trumpet [4-5, 9-15]
• Lou Blackburn
  solo [13], trombone [1-15]
• Marshall Royal
  alto saxophone [1-15]
• Paul Gonsalves
  solo [3-5, 8-9, 11, 13], tenor saxophone [1-15]
• Quentin Jackson
  solo [2, 6-7, 12], trombone [1-15]
• Ray Nance
  solo [1, 3, 15], trumpet [1-15], violin [1-15]
• Russell Procope
  alto saxophone [1-15], reeds [1-15]
• Sam Woodyard
  drums (drum set) [1, 3, 5, 7, 9-10, 12, 14-15, 15], solo [1, 15]
• Snooky Young
  solo [13], trumpet [1-15]
• Sonny Cohn
  solo [3, 10], trumpet [1-15]
• Sonny Payne
  drums (drum set) [1-2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, 15], solo [1, 15]
• Thad Jones
  solo [5, 14], trumpet [1-15]
• The Count Basie Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1-15]
• The Duke Ellington Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1-15]
• William “Cat” Anderson
  solo [1, 5, 15], trumpet [1-15]
• Willie Cook
  solo [4], trumpet [1-15]
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Issues

• 

  F
  (Combined release view)
• 

  B
  Battle Royal: The Duke Meets the Count

  12" Vinyl
  1961
• 

  F
  First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

  12" Vinyl
  1962
• 

  F
  First Time! The Count Meets The Duke

  12" Vinyl
  1987
• 

  F
  First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

  Digital Media
  27 April 1999
• 

  F
  First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

  CD
  1999
• 

  F
  First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

  SACD
  8 August 2000
• 

  F
  First Time! The Count Meets The Duke

  CD
  2001
• 

  F
  First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

  CD
  2009
• 

  B
  Battle Royal

  CD
  2013
• 

  F
  First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

  Digital Media
  2025
• 

  F
  First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

  12" Vinyl
• F
  First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

  CD
• 

  F
  First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

  CD