Count Basie and the Kansas City 7

Count Basie and the Kansas City 7
Studio album by
Count Basie
Released1962
RecordedMarch 21 & 22, 1962
StudioVan Gelder (Englewood Cliffs)
GenreJazz
Length35:57
LabelImpulse!
ProducerBob Thiele
Count Basie chronology
The Legend
(1961) 		Count Basie and the Kansas City 7
(1962) 		Easin' It
(1962)

Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 is an album by American jazz bandleader and pianist Count Basie featuring small group performances recorded in 1962 for the Impulse! label.[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "One of Count Basie's few small-group sessions of the '60s was his best".[2] In a contemporaneous review in the October 11, 1962 issue of Down Beat magazine, Leonard Feather rated the album at 4.5 stars.[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Down Beat[3]
AllMusic[2]
New Record Mirror[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[6]

Track listing

  1. "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:40
  2. "Secrets" (Frank Wess) – 4:08
  3. "I Want a Little Girl" (Murray Mencher, Billy Moll) – 4:16
  4. "Shoe Shine Boy" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin) – 4:07
  5. "Count's Place" (Count Basie) – 5:28
  6. "Senator Whitehead" (Wess) – 4:12
  7. "Tally-Ho, Mr. Basie!" (Basie) – 4:28
  8. "What'cha Talkin'?" (Thad Jones) – 4:59
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on March 21, 1962 (tracks 2, 6 & 8), and March 22, 1962 (tracks 1, 3-5 & 7)

Personnel

Production

References

  1. ^ Impulse! Records discography accessed March 16, 2011
  2. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed March 16, 2011
  3. ^ a b Down Beat: October 11, 1962 vol. 29, no. 26
  4. ^ Watson, Jimmy (11 May 1963). "Count Basie: Count Basie And The Kansas City" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 113. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-07-06. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  5. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 20. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  6. ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.