How many different Count Basie CDs/ records do you have?

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This side up · #1 Post by **This side up** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:25 pm

So how many Count Basie cds / records do you have? Not counting where he appears on a compilation or on another musician's cd.Also not counting his time playing with Benny Moten or other groups he was in.I just counted +or - 300 different titles in Gold Mine guide to jazz .

Campus Five · #2 Post by **Campus Five** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:22 pm

12 discs, which is really 5 packages.
Proper Box 4 disc
America's #1 Band 4 disc
Cafe Society Uptown 2 disc
Swingsation Series
1937 vol. 4 - masters of jazz

And none of it was recorded after 1950.

Roy · #3 Post by **Roy** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:41 pm

20:

Count Basie and Sarah Vaughn
The first time the Count meets Duke
1 O'clock Jump
Breakfast Dance and BBQ
The Essential count basie Vol.1
Count Basie and Newport
Count Basie-Swingsation
Count basie-comple Decca recordings-3 discs
Basie's golden hits
Keely Smith with count basie
Count basie swings Joe Williams sings
Satch and Josh
Baise and Friends
Yessir that's my baby
America's #1 band-4 discs
Kansas City Shout
Sinatra-Basie
Atomic Basie
Ella ana Basie-63
The Bosses

Shorty Dave · #4 Post by **Shorty Dave** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:06 pm

The Complete Decca Recording - 3 Discs
The Count Basie Story (Proper) - 4 Discs
The Count Basie Story (Roulette Jazz) - 2 Discs
Count Basie & Friends 100th Birthday Bash - 2 Discs
America's Number One Band - 4 Discs
April in Paris
Breakfast Dance and Barbecue
Atomic Basie
Count on the Coast
Basie and Friends
Golden '58
At New port
ON the Lorad
Live at the Sands (Before Frank)
Chariman of the Board
Live in Antibes, 1968
Basie in Sweden
Kansas City 6
The Kansas City 7
Autumn in Paris
Blues Alley
Live (Sequel Jazz label) - 3 Discs
Montreux '77
Live March 29, 1960 (Paris Jazz Concert)
Farmers Markete Barbecue
Fun Time
Live in Japan '78
Breand New Wagon - 1947
Soutin' Blues - 1949
I Tod You So
For the First Time
Straight Ahead
Live from Tilburg, Holland 1971...
Be My Guest
Greatest Hits (RCA Victor)
King of Swing
Basie & Ella: On the Sunny Side of the St
Basie & Ella: A Perfect Match
Basie & Duke: Battle of the Bands
Basie & Duke: For the First Time
Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings
Basie & Williams: Memories Ad-Lib
Basie & Milt Jackson: The Big Band, vol 2
Basie & Sarah Vaughan
Basie & Sammy Davis: Our Shining Our
Birdland All Stars at Carnegie Hall - 2 Discs
Basie & OP - Satch and Josh
Basie & OP - Satch and Josh...again
Basie & OP - Night Rider
Basie & OP - The Timekeepers
Basie & Frank Sinatra - Live at the Sands
Basie & Bill Henderson - Live in Concert
Basie and His Great Vocalists
The Essential Count Basie, Vol 2
The Best of Early Basie (Decca)
the Greatest Jazz Concert in the World - 3 Discs (not all Basie)
Jazz at the Santa Monica Civic '72 - 3 Discs (not all Basie)
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra: The Okeh sessions plus Victor alternative takes

CafeSavoy · #5 Post by **CafeSavoy** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:12 pm

Count Basie 52nd Street Street Of Jazz I
Basie Alumni A Night at Count Basie's
Count Basie A Piano Anthology From Jelly Roll Morton to Bill Evans

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Count Basie 1944
Count Basie & Milt Jackson, The Big Band Vol. 1 ['78]
Count Basie & Zoot Sims, Basie & Zoot ['75]
Count Basie 1946-1947
Fitzgerald, Ella A Classy Pair (w, Count Basie)
Count Basie Ain't It the Truth [Sony Special Products]
Count Basie America's #1 Band Columbia Years (4cds)
Sinatra, Frank An Historic Musical First (& Count Basie)
Wilson, Jackie And Count Basie ['68]
Count Basie And The Kansas City 7 ['62]
Count Basie April in Paris [Verve]
Count Basie At Birdland 1956 ['56] (Live)
Count Basie At Newport ['57]
Count Basie Atomic Swing
Count Basie Basie and Friends ('74~81)
Count Basie Basie Boogie (Basie Swing I)
Count Basie Basie In Europe
Count Basie Count Basie & His Orchestra 1937,Chick Webb & His Orchestra 1936
Vaughan, Sarah Count Basie & Sarah Vaughan
Count Basie Count Basie Get Together
Count Basie Count Basie Plays The Blues
Count Basie Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings ('56)
Eckstine, Billy Basie, Eckstine Inc (w- Count Basie)
Count Basie Basie's Golden '58
Count Basie Benny Carter and the Jazz Giants
Count Basie Best Collection
Benson, George Big Boss Band Featuring The Count Basie Orchestra
Billie Holiday & Count Basie Birdland All-Stars At Carnegie Hall
Count Basie Blues Alley ['68]
Count Basie Breakfast Dance and Barbecue ['59]
Count Basie Chairman of the Board ('59~'62)
Count Basie Class of '54
Count Basie Columbia Years (4cds)
Count Basie Complete Columbia Recordings 1936 - 1941 (4cds)
Count Basie Complete Original American RCA Victor Recordings (cd1)
Count Basie En Concert avec Europe 1 ['62]
Count Basie Finest Hour
Count Basie First time! The Count meets the Duke ['61] (Reissue) (w~ Duke Ellington)
Turner, Big Joe Flip, Flop & Fly (& Count Basie)
Count Basie Frankie Manning's Really Swingin' - Big Band Favorites
Count Basie Fresno, California April 24, 1959
Count Basie Great Jazz Bands Play 22 Original Recordings (1941 1947)
Sinatra, Frank It Might as Well Be Swing ['64] (w~ Count Basie)
Count Basie Jam- Montreux '77
Count Basie Jazz Archives No 74 The Golden Years Vol 2 1938
Count Basie Jazz Casual ['68]
Count Basie Jazz Profile ('59-'61)
Count Basie Jumping At The Woodside (Basie Swing II)
Williams, Joe Jumping At The Woodside (Count Basie Swing II)
Turner, Big Joe Kansas City Shout (w~ Count Basie)
Count Basie Kansas City, Vol. 5 ['77]
Count Basie Kansas City.5 ['77]
Count Basie Lindy Hop Jamboree 5 Jumpin
Count Basie Lindy Hop Jamboree Part 3
Sinatra, Frank Listen Up ~ The Lives Of Quincy Jones
Foster, Frank & Count Basie Orchestra Live at Orchestra Hall, Detroit
Count Basie Live At The Sands ['66]
Count Basie Live in 1958 and 1959
Count Basie Live In Antibes 1968
Count Basie 'Live' In Concert ['62]
Count Basie Live In Japan '78
Henderson, Bill Live with the Count Basie Band ['65]
Count Basie Milt Jackson, The Big Band Vol. 1 ['78]
Count Basie Milt Jackson, Vol. 2 ['78]
Count Basie Mostly Blues...and some others ['83]
Count Basie On The Road ['79]
Fitzgerald, Ella On the Sunny Side of the Street (& Count Basie)
Count Basie One O'Clock Jump 1937
Count Basie Oscillatin' Rhythm
Davis Jr., Sammy Our Shining Hour (w- Count Basie) ['65]
Count Basie Rock a Bye Basie, Live in '38 & '39
Count Basie Roulette Recordings
Count Basie Satch & Josh...Again ['77] (w~ Oscar Peterson)
Count Basie 'Satch' and 'Josh' ['74]
Count Basie Shoutin' Blues
Sinatra, Frank Sinatra at the Sands ['66] (w~ Count Basie)
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Sing A Song Of Basie
Count Basie Swing Kids
Count Basie Swingin' at the Chatterbox 1937
Page, Oran 'Hot Lips' Swinging at Carnegie Hall
Count Basie The Atomic Band Live In Europe ('59)
Count Basie The Big Band Vol. 1 (& Milt Jackson)
Mills Brothers The Board of Directors ['68] (w- Count Basie)
Turner, Big Joe The Bosses ['73] (w~ Count Basie)
Count Basie The Complete Atomic Basie ['57]
Count Basie The Complete Decca Recordings
Count Basie The Count Meets The Duke [61'] (Reissue) (w~ Duke Ellington)
Count Basie The Golden Years (Pablo)
Count Basie The Golden Years Vol 1 (Jazz Archives)
Count Basie The Golden Years, Vol 2 #74, 1938 (Jazz Archives)
Brewer, Teresa The Songs Of Bessie Smith ['73] (w- Count Basie)
Count Basie The Sound Of Jazz
Count Basie The Timekeepers ['78] (w~ Oscar Peterson)
Count Basie This is Jazz 11
Count Basie Wild & Swingin' ['68jul](live)
Count Basie Yessir, That's My Baby ['78]

#6 Post by **JesseMiner** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 7:24 pm

What Rayned said, +/- a few (I don't really have my music organized enough right now to quickly list which ones). Count Basie is my favorite swinging artist after all! I guess I have a long way to go to get his complete recordings, according to the "Gold Mine guide to jazz".

Jesse

CafeSavoy · #7 Post by **CafeSavoy** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 8:00 pm

JesseMiner wrote: I guess I have a long way to go to get his complete recordings, according to the "Gold Mine guide to jazz".

Jesse

Are those 300 unduplicated recordings? Even with that it's still less than what it would take to collect Ellington. For example, the Basie Complete RCA-Victor is just 3 discs, whereas the Ellington Complete RCA-Victor is 24 discs.

Bob the Builder · #8 Post by **Bob the Builder** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 8:33 pm

Campus Five wrote: And none of it was recorded after 1950.

You are now officially my Hero.

My Basie stuff

1944 - Count Basie (Live Radio recordings)
Atomic Swing
Basie and Friends
Basie Boogie (Jazz Archchives)
Basie Swings, Bennet sings
Count Basie 1937, Chick webb 1936
Count Basie and his Kansas City 7
Count Basie at Newport
Count Basie, Verve Masters
Cutting Butter
For the First Time
I Told you so,
Kansas City five
King of Swing
Olympia: Live 5/62
Palais De Chaillot
Satch and Josh
Satch and Josh againn
The Complete Atomic Basie
The Count Basie Story [proper box set]
The Indespensible Count Basie
One O'Clock Jump - Verve with Ella and Joe Williams
The Greatest!! Count Basie and Joe Williams sings standards
A classy Pair
Ella and Basie
Sinatra - Basie
And many many many compulations

Brian

Shorty Dave · #9 Post by **Shorty Dave** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:39 am

CafeSavoy wrote:Are those 300 unduplicated recordings? Even with that it's still less than what it would take to collect Ellington. For example, the Basie Complete RCA-Victor is just 3 discs, whereas the Ellington Complete RCA-Victor is 24 discs.

Amen to that. If you want to talk about output, Ellington is your man. Especially with all those live recordings. There are Ellington freaks out there that are even nerdier than us (lol). I was at the house of the dude who's over 80 and still puts together the Duke Ellington Society monthly newsletter. He had about 400-500 Ellington cds, and and probably about two thousand Ellington LPs that he's been collecting his whole life. It was quite humbling to look through his entire collection...

Yakov · #10 Post by **Yakov** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 3:58 pm

and i just got 8 more in the mail...

this is from memory.

Complete "Old Testament" Masters:
Complete Decca (Decca, 3 discs)
Complete Columbia (Definitive, 7 discs in 2 sets)
Complete RCA Victor (Definitive, 3 discs)
Kansas City 5,6,7 (Basie spinoff groups not necessarily including him)

Live recordings:
"Golden Years," 4 disc series

Later stuf:
April In Paris
Breakfast Dance And Barbecue
Satch And Josh
Satch And Josh...Again
Laserlight randomness
Kansas City 6
Kansas City 3 / For the Second Time (trio!!)
a bunch of others... can't think right now...

Book:
"Good Morning Blues," autobiography

mousethief · #11 Post by **mousethief** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:39 am

Cripes. Over 30 easy.

Kalman

CafeSavoy · #12 Post by **CafeSavoy** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:14 am

Yakov wrote:Book:
"Good Morning Blues," autobiography

That's a great book. Albert Murray did an excellent job writing it.

Lawrence · #13 Post by **Lawrence** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:12 pm

I have well over 100 Basie CDs in a three-inch-thick CD binder containing nothing but Armstrong (15%) and Basie (85%), including the two Mosaic Complete Roulette sets, three or four live shows on video, and several post-humous CDs. Still a long way to go to be complete, though.

I once had a goal of collecting everything in print, but I pretty much gave up because I long ago I reached the point of diminishing returns. Plus, I decided to instead focus more intensely on developing my Westie collection of 1970s Disco and late-1990s R&B.

Jerry_Jelinek · #14 Post by **Jerry_Jelinek** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:09 pm

Interesting idea.

I just did a quick check and was surprised to find I have around 35 CDs with Basie.

For dancing the best in my collection is the marvelous 10 CD set from Past Perfect. I found this a half price books for around $20-$25. I would guess at least 50-75% of the tracks are good for swing dancing.

For listening I much prefer the 50's-70s Basie big bands. Has much more varied arranging.

Matthew · #15 Post by **Matthew** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:45 pm

Somewhere around 20. I prefer the old stuff for dancing, and I've put my money into that, although some of the New Testament stuff has been growing on me. Just played "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" (Basie/Ella) tonight, in fact.