Basie's Beat

Basie's Beat
Studio album by Count Basie Orchestra
Released	1967
Recorded	Oct 7, 8 & 9, 1965 and February 15, 1967 A & R Studio, NYC
Genre	Jazz, Swing, Big band
Length	36:24
Label	Verve
Producer	Teddy Reig
Count Basie Orchestra chronology
Hollywood...Basie's Way (1967) Basie's Beat (1967) Basie's in the Bag (1967)

Basie's Beat is a 1967 album by Count Basie and his orchestra.^[1]

The trombonist Richard Boone sings on two of the tracks, "Boone's Blues" and "I Got Rhythm".

Track listing[]

1. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, Billy Rose) - 2:43
2. "Squeeze Me" (Fats Waller, Clarence Williams) - 4:56
3. "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) - 5:26
4. "I Got Rhythm" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:37
5. "Frankie and Johnny" (Traditional) - 3:43
6. "Boone's Blues" (Richard Boone) - 2:50
7. "St. Thomas" (Sonny Rollins) - 3:06
8. "Hey Jim" - 4:10
9. "Happy House" - 4:23
10. "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) - 5:09

Personnel[]

• The Count Basie Orchestra
• Count Basie - piano, arranger
• Richard Boone - vocals, trombone
• Bobby Plater, Marshall Royal - alto saxophone
• Charlie Fowlkes - baritone saxophone
• Norman Keenan - double bass
• Ed Shaughnessy, Rufus Jones - drums
• Freddie Green - guitar
• Billy Mitchell, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Eric Dixon, Marshall Brown - tenor saxophone
• Al Grey, Grover Mitchell, Harlan Floyd, Henderson Chambers - trombone
• Bill Hughes - bass trombone
• Al Aarons, Gene Goe, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Phil Guilbeau, Sonny Cohn, Wallace Davenport - trumpet

Production

• Acy R. Lehman - cover design
• Phil Ramone, Bob Arnold - engineer
• Val Valentin - director of engineering
• Stanley Dance - liner notes
• Chuck Stewart - photography
• Teddy Reig - producer

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