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Basie broadcasts / transcriptions

#1 Post by Yakov » Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:45 am

I was looking through Chris Sheridan's Basie: a Bio-Discography.
I saw that some of Basie's earliest transcriptions under his name are from Pittsburgh with Claude "Fiddler" Williams.
Anyone know where I can get these recordings on CD?
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#2 Post by Bob the Builder » Tue Feb 01, 2005 3:13 pm

There is a CD called "Swingin' at the Chatterbox" link. Which is a live broadcast from the Chatterbox night club in Pittsburgh, PA in February 1937.
But as I said it's a live broadcast and not a pre-recorded transcription.
The sound quality of this CD is not very good, so it is definitely a listening CD and not a cd to DJ from (,well to a dance floor anyway).

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#3 Post by julius » Tue Feb 01, 2005 3:53 pm

Ooh, I just bought this. The first track is almost OK but the rest of the tracks are, as Bob says, terrible sound fidelity.

Still, these radio recordings are pretty much the only way to ever hear what Basie's band was like "live", so from a listener standpoint, they are totally worth it. I only know two live recordings, Live At the Famous Door and Live at the Chatterbox. If anybody knows more, speak up!

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#4 Post by Bob the Builder » Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:11 pm

There is also this CD Count Basie & His Orchestra 1937/Chick Webb & His Orchestra 1936

The first 12 tracks are from Count Basie at the Savoy Ballroom and "I think" the Famous Door.
Again the Sound quality is not fantastic, but personally I think it’s better than the "Swingin' at the Chatterbox" recordings.
The Sound Quality on the Chick Webb section of this CD is a lot better and Big John's Special is really good. Well worth getting this CD just for the Chick Webb recordings. This CD really shows that better sound quality live recordings could be made back as far as 1936.

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#5 Post by Yakov » Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:06 pm

oop, got my terminology wrong. i meant broadcast. thanks.

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#6 Post by CafeSavoy » Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:07 pm

julius wrote:O I only know two live recordings, Live At the Famous Door and Live at the Chatterbox. If anybody knows more, speak up!
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Disc IV

At The Famous Door:
1. One O'clock Jump
2. Swingin' The Blues
3. Rock-A-Bye Basie
4. Don't Worry ‘Bout Me
5. Time Out
6. Boogie Woogie Blues
7. Roseland Shuffle
8. White Sails
9. Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
10. One O'clock Jump

At The Savoy Ballroom
11. They Can't Take That Away From Me
12. Swing, Brother, Swing

At The Meadowbrook Lounge
13. I Can't Get Started

At The Panther Room
14. Moten Swing
15. Ebony Rhapsody
16. Darn That Dream
17. Take It, Pres
18. Baby, Don't Tell On Me
19. I Got Rhythm

At Cafe Society Uptown
20. 9:20 Special
21. Elmer's Tune
22. Jumpin' At The Woodside

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#7 Post by Bob the Builder » Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:22 pm

Is their Dates for those recordings. I assume some where between 1939 and 1942! Whats the sounds quality of them like?
I have an Album called "Cutting Butter" that has all the Columbia Studio Recordings. Is it worth spending AUS$64 for the tracks one disk in a five pack?

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#8 Post by Yakov » Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:45 pm

"Cutting Butter"? :shock:

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#9 Post by Campus Five » Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:55 am

For live Basie I think of these:
1937 vol. 4 - Masters of Jazz (Live in 1937 at the Savoy)
Cafe Society Uptown 1941 - (Live in 1941 sans Pres, but you can really hear Jo Jones well)
There's also a live collection of Basie stuff from 1944 on cdbaby.com that looks very interesting.
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#10 Post by Bob the Builder » Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:46 am

Cutting Butter
You can pick this CD up for under $30 in Melbourne now. A cheap CD for a change (well for out here anyway).
We get a lot of European labels you don't get in the US.

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#11 Post by Yakov » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:52 am

looks neat. but how is that "complete" when the Definitive version of the same material encompasses 7 discs? :?

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#12 Post by JesseMiner » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:36 am

Yakov wrote:looks neat. but how is that "complete" when the Definitive version of the same material encompasses 7 discs?
I was thinking the exact same thing until I followed the link and viewed the full title of the set: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1939-42.

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#13 Post by CafeSavoy » Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:50 am

Bob the Builder wrote:Is their Dates for those recordings. I assume some where between 1939 and 1942! Whats the sounds quality of them like?
I have an Album called "Cutting Butter" that has all the Columbia Studio Recordings. Is it worth spending AUS$64 for the tracks one disk in a five pack?

Brian

" Most of the material here has been remastered and sonically improved from scattered, previously released recordings. The most notable exception - to the glee of completists -- is Disc 4. It contains 22 airchecks from broadcasts the band made live from several restaurants, clubs and ballrooms. They were New York City's Savoy Ballroom in 1937, Famous Door in 1939 and Caf&233; Society Uptown in 1941; Boston's Southland Theatre Restaurant in 1940, Chicago's Panther Room in 1939, and Cedar Grove, N.J.'s, Meadowbrook Lounge in 1937."
http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webne ... t_DON.html

There is a discussion of this box set somewhere on this board.

http://www.swingdjs.com/phpbb2/viewtopi ... e+columbia
http://www.swingdjs.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=244

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#14 Post by Bob the Builder » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:09 am

I just got Count Basie "Cafe Society Uptown, 1941". By Jazz Unlimited.
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This bouble CD is just fantastic, but there are some digital skips in the coding. Is that just my doggie CD or is that the case on them all?

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#15 Post by main_stem » Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:38 am

Ther is a broadcast on the hindsight label that has artie shaw sitting in with the bands on a couple of songs.
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