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Musician's Perspective
The band is great! It's especially nice to hear the man himself play his very tasteful and underrated piano licks. The Joe Williams segment is outstanding! Good instrumental solos. However, speaking as a musician, there's a little too much "show biz" glitz with the other performers, who are fine in their own right, but definitely not in the same class as the Basie band.

Great For Any Basie or Big Band Fan
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this is an edition of the basie band that was stellar for so many reasons-great soloists-Kenny Hing and Eric Dixson on tenors as well as Booty Wood and Dennis Wilson on trombones. A sax section that had been together for 5 years at that point-a great bassist in Cleveland Eaton.

the show has a great segment showing vintage basie from the 30's thru the 80's-as well as a talent line up to go gaga over.

someone had asked for the personnel of this band so here goes:
saxes- bobby platter-lead alto and danny turner
kenny hing and eric dixon tenor saxes
johnny williams baritone
trombones-grover mitchell lead
booty wood
dennis wilson
bill hughes bass trombone
trumpets-willie cook lead
dale carley
sonny cohn
bob summers
rhythm section- basie-piano cleveland eaton bass- gregg fields drums.
a must for any basie fan!!

mark
noticably missing from the line up was freddie green on guitar.

The old fire just smoldering
You could consider this a very good big band performance BUT if you are a fan of Count Basie you may find this a bit sad. The old lion just doen't roar with the vigor of old. There are some high points: Joe Williams still sings great, there are a few nice horn solos, but Sarah Vaughn was disappointing, George Benson out of place, and Tony Bennett downright embarrassing. Maybe it was the white bread audience at Carnegie Hall; cringed when they gave Tony Bennett a bigger ovation than the Count. Spend your money on "Atomic Basie" or any of the remastered CDs from 30's and 40's.

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