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Count Basie and the Kansas City 7

Count Basie and the Kansas City 7
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Studio album by Count Basie
Released 1962
Recorded March 21 & 22, 1962
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length 35:57
Label Impulse!
Producer Bob Thiele
Count Basie chronology
The Legend
(1961)
Count Basie and the Kansas City 7
(1962)
Easin' It
(1962)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Down Beat 4.5/5 stars
AllMusic 4/5 stars
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide 3/5 stars

Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 is an album by American jazz bandleader and pianist Count Basie featuring small group performances recorded in 1962 for the Impulse! label.

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "One of Count Basie's few small-group sessions of the '60s was his best". In a contemporaneous review in the October 11, 1962 issue of Down Beat magazine, Leonard Feather rated the album at 4.5 stars.



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