Count Basie and Tony Bennett - Basie Swings, Bennett Sings
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Artist: Count Basie and Tony BennettEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-05-10
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Life Is A Song
- With Plenty Of Money And You
- Jeepers Creepers
- Are You Havin' Any Fun
- Anything Goes
- Strike Up The Band
- Chicago
- I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- Growing Pains
- I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans
- After Supper
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Free Music Review: Good album...dubious CD transfer
Hit: 3 Stars
Ok, so first, the music. While this isn't Bennett's, nor the Basie Band's greatest album, by any means, it's still good. It's not hard swinging, but a light swinging, somewhere between ballads and swingers, suitable to Bennett's vocal style.
But the biggest problem is the CD itself. While the album was recorded in STEREO in 1959, the CD presents all these tracks in MONO. Why? I don't know. I have a handful of these songs on other official Capitol/Blue Note/Roulette CDs, and they are not only in stereo, but the fidelity is much cleaner. (Two are available on Basie's Roulette remasters from 2002, and another is available on Wild, Cool and Swingin'). Perhaps some of the masters were not available. Regardless, it would have been preferable to even press a stereo after-market LP, instead of these inferior mono versions, which aren't even clean-sounding mono.
Anyway, this album is available on a number of 3rd party labels and bootlegs, and they sound shoddy on all of them, too. Most are in mono, but a few are in stereo if you look around. Hopefully, someday Capitol will pull out all the masters for this album, clean them up, and release a decent sounding album in stereo.
Despite my problems with this CD pressing, this IS the best sounding version of this album to get. So, if you MUST own this one, i definitely encourage you to buy this Roulette release, as it is the best sounding of whats available.
Basie Swings, Bennett Sings Poster
Though Bennett's greatest successes came from his relaxed delivery of pop songs, he has more than just an affinity for jazz singing, as his 1999 Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot and Cool has so ably demonstrated. This reissue captures a 1959 meeting between Bennett and Basie, at a time when the pianist's band was at a peak, with a fantastic rhythm section, tight and powerful brass, silky reeds, and skillful arrangers like Neal Hefti, who could make the most of those resources. The Basie band was recording with a variety of singers in the period, from Sammy Davis Jr. to Billy Eckstine, but Bennett may have brought the most enthusiasm to the meeting. A great band singer, he mates perfectly with the horn sections on the up-tempo numbers, whether it's the standard "Chicago" or some obscure show tune. He can make a classic ballad, such as "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," sound fresh, and like the Basie band, Bennett can swing at any tempo. This CD is a fine companion to In Person!, the contemporaneous Bennett-Basie collaboration done for the singer's label, Columbia. --Stuart BroomerBlues Music CDs
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