Description

"Count Basie afficionados will need little incentive to pick up Old Manuscripts… The music is fine, most intriguing being 'G.I. Stomp,' a rare feature for Basie's boogie-inflected piano. The fidelity throughout is generally good."

     Robert Iannapollo in Cadence

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CD-4884(1)

COUNT BASIE: OLD MANUSCRIPTS, BROADCAST TRANSCRIPTIONS 1944/45. 25 selections recorded between April 1944 and July 1945, transferred by David Lennick with state-of-the-art audio   by Lowell Cross. [ADD] Total time: 76:01.

Sound Clips (MP3):

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1. One O'Clock Jump (Opening)

2. AnnouncementAvenue C

3. AnnouncementTess's Torch Song

4. AnnouncementJumpin' at the WoodsideAnnouncementI'm Gonna Sit

6. Rock-A-Bye Basie

7. Announcement – And So Little Love

8. Announcement – Dance of the Gremlins

9. Announcement – When They Ask About You

11. One O'Clock Jump

12. Sugarhill Shuffle

13. Harvard Blues

14. Jazz Me Blues

15. Please Don't Say No

16. G-I- Stomp

17. Just an Old Manuscript

18. Wish You Were Waiting for Me

19. Let's Jump

20. Basie Blues

21. Circus in Rhythm

22. I Should Care

23. I'm Fer It, Too

24. I Didn't Know About You

25. Blue Lou

91.. Blue Lou – Signoff