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April In Paris

Count Basie Orchestra

Recorded	Jul 4, 1955
Label	Verve Records
Released	1955
Personnel	16 credited players
Discogs	master 68437

The record

Neal Hefti's charts give this reed section room to stretch, with the title track's spoken 'one more time' becoming a running gag the band never tired of. Cut for Verve as Basie's mid-'50s audience kept growing.

Session personnel

Bill Graham — alto saxophone
Marshall Royal — alto saxophone
Charlie Fowlkes — baritone saxophone
Eddie Jones — bass
Sonny Payne — drums
Freddie Green — guitar
Count Basie — piano
Frank Foster — tenor saxophone
Frank Wess — tenor saxophone
Benny Powell — trombone
Bill Hughes — trombone
Henry Coker — trombone
Joe Newman — trumpet
Reunald Jones — trumpet
Thad Jones — trumpet
Wendell Culley — trumpet

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 79 pressings on file.

1957	Verve Records · MG V-8012 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
1957	Verve Records — MONO
1957	Verve Records · MGV-8012 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono
1957	Verve Records · MG V-8012 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1957	Verve Records · MG V-8012 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1957	Verve Records · MG V-8012 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1957	Karusell · MGV 8012 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1957	Columbia · 33CX 10088 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1958	Verve Records · MG V-8012 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1958	Barclay · 3596 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1959	Verve Records · MG V-8012 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1961	Verve Records · V6-8012 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue
1963	Encore! · ENC 153 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1979	Verve Records · MV 2641 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono