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A Night at Count Basie's

A Night at Count Basie's
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Live album by Joe Williams
Released February 1957
Recorded October 22, 1956
Count Basie's, cnr Seventh Avenue & 132nd St., Harlem, NYC
Genre Vocal jazz, jazz
Length 46:45
Label Vanguard
VRS 8508
Joe Williams chronology
The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards
(1956)
A Night at Count Basie's
(1956)
One O'Clock Jump
(1957)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars

A Night at Count Basie's is a live album by vocalist Joe Williams recorded at Count Basie's nightclub in Harlem in 1956 and released on the Vanguard label.

The AllMusic review by Buce Eder stated " This may possibly have been, as claimed, the first authorized commercial recording ever done from a neighborhood bar (complete with the sounds of telephones, cash registers, etc., in the distant background), and the results are priceless ... The sound is remarkably clean and sharp, which makes the fact that the band was incredibly "on" that night even more appreciated".


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