Best Version of "Jumpin' at the Woodside"

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Bob the Builder · #1 Post by **Bob the Builder** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 4:55 pm

What’s you favorite version of Count Basie's
"Jumpin' at the Woodside"

Mine is off a 1944 live radio recording. It’s a faster than usual version and the Piano is very driving in it. I really like it.

Brian

Greg Avakian · #2 Post by **Greg Avakian** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 9:35 am

What, no responses? OK, I'll bite:

My favorite is the version off of the "out to sea" (or whatever) soundtrack.

djstarr · #3 Post by **djstarr** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 2:44 pm

I like the version on disc 1 of the Lester Young Proper box set - it's by Billie Holiday & her Orchestra w/Buck Clayton, Lester Young, Dickie Wells, Queenie Johnson and the Basie rhythm section.

main_stem · #4 Post by **main_stem** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 3:48 pm

The origional from 1936, the meeting between the Basie and Ellington bands and the duet between Basie and Oscar Peterson

djstarr · #5 Post by **djstarr** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 10:08 pm

djstarr wrote:I like the version on disc 1 of the Lester Young Proper box set - it's by Billie Holiday & her Orchestra w/Buck Clayton, Lester Young, Dickie Wells, Queenie Johnson and the Basie rhythm section.

ok, for those of you paying attention you may have read this and said "WTF?, Brenda are you smoking crack again?"

The above is just plain wrong --- I was listening to this CD again today and knew it was the same version as on the Basie collection I have - so I thought, well how come it said it was Billie Holiday & her orchestra?

Looking more closely at the liner notes [which list personnel, then song tracks!], the version on the Lester Young box set is the same as on the Ken Burns Basie collection - recorded August 22, 1938 by Count Basie & his orchestra. It seems to sound better on the Lester Young Proper box set to me though...(?)

Greg Avakian · #6 Post by **Greg Avakian** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 7:25 am

djstarr wrote: for those of you paying attention you may have read this and said "WTF?, Brenda are you smoking crack again?"

Yeah, we all knew you was a crack 'ho

main_stem · #7 Post by **main_stem** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 9:20 am

Greg Avakian wrote:
djstarr wrote: for those of you paying attention you may have read this and said "WTF?, Brenda are you smoking crack again?"
Yeah, we all knew you was a crack 'ho

She's my best customer.

julius · #8 Post by **julius** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 12:48 pm

The original is the best for me, simply because Lester's rolling triplet introductory to his solo makes me go "YEAH!" every. damn. time.

djstarr · #9 Post by **djstarr** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 1:10 pm

main_stem wrote: She's my best customer.

I've been meaning to ask you for a discount!