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 |
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Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 35:57 | |||
Label | Impulse! | |||
Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
Count Basie chronology | ||||
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Professional ratings | |
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Down Beat | |
AllMusic | |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |
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.