MCA Impulse! · in the Kissa Kissa racks
Straight Ahead
| Recorded | Oct 1968 |
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| Label | MCA Impulse! |
| Released | 1968 |
| Personnel | 17 credited players |
| Discogs | master 368957 |
The record
Late-60s Basie band, still swinging hard with the Green-Keenan-Jones engine room locked in behind him. Lockjaw Davis growls through the reed section on an Impulse! date that finds the orchestra loose, brassy, and unmistakably in the pocket.
Session personnel
- Norman Keenan — bass
- Harold Jones — drums
- Freddie Green — guitar
- Count Basie — piano
- Charlie Fowlkes — saxophone
- Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis — saxophone
- Marshall Royal — saxophone
- Bobby Plater — saxophone, flute
- Eric Dixon — saxophone, flute
- Bill Hughes — trombone
- Grover Mitchell — trombone
- Richard Boone — trombone
- Steve Galloway — trombone
- Al Aarons — trumpet
- Gene Goe — trumpet
- Oscar Brashear — trumpet
- Sonny Cohn — trumpet
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
| 2003 | Dot Records · UCCU-5086 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 20 Bit Mastering |
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| 2005 | Dot Records · UCCU-9098 — CD, Album, Promo, Reissue, Remastered, Paper Sleeve |
| 2006 | Dot Records · UCCU-9251 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered |
| 2011 | Dot Records · UCCU-6091 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, SHM-CD |
| 2014 | Dot Records · UCCU-99096 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo |
| 2016 | Dot Records · UCCU-5792 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, SHM-CD |
| 2020 | Dot Records · UCCV-9687 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, UHQCD |
| — | MCA Impulse! |
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