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L'il Ol' Groovemaker...Basie!

Count Basie Orchestra

Recorded	Apr 21-23, 1963
Label	Verve Records
Released	1963
Personnel	18 credited players
Discogs	master 210148

The record

By '63 the book had turned toward pop and soul-jazz material, but Green's guitar and Payne's drums still drive the same unmistakable pulse. Foster and Wess keep the reed charts lean, punchy, built for dancing.

Session personnel

Sonny Payne — drums
Buddy Catlett — guitar
Count Basie — leader, piano
Freddie Green — rhythm guitar
Charlie Fowlkes — saxophone
Eric Dixon — saxophone
Frank Foster — saxophone
Frank Wess — saxophone
Marshall Royal — saxophone
Benny Powell — trombone
Grover Mitchell — trombone
Henry Coker — trombone
Urbie Green — trombone
Al Aarons — trumpet
Don Rader — trumpet
Fortunatus "Fip" Ricard — trumpet
George Cohen — trumpet
Snooky Young — 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 17 pressings on file.

1963	Verve Records · V6-8549 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file
1963	Verve Records — STEREO
1963	La Voz De Su Amo · LCLP 216 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1963	Verve Records · SVLP 9051 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1963	Verve Records · V6-8549 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1963	Verve Records · VLP 9051 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1964	Verve Records · PS-8012 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1980	Verve Records · 2304 380 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1980	Verve Records · 2304 380 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1980	Verve Records · 2304 380 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Test Pressing, White Label
1984	Verve Records · 821 799-2 — CD, Album, Stereo
1984	Verve Records · 821 799-2 — CD, Album, Stereo
1999	Verve Records · POCJ-2738 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Paper Sleeve
1999	Verve Records · POCJ-2738 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Jewel Case