Loose Walk
1972 live album by Count Basie and Roy Eldridge
Loose Walk | |
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Live album by Count Basie, Roy Eldridge | |
Released | 1972 |
Recorded | 1972 |
Genre | Jazz |
Length | 39:44 |
Label | Pablo[1] |
Producer | Norman Granz |
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [1] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [3] |
Loose Walk is a 1972 album by Count Basie and Roy Eldridge.
Reception
Scott Yanow, writing for AllMusic, said that "[i]ronically, the earliest recording by Count Basie for Norman Granz's Pablo label was one of the most recent to be released." He called it "a set of jammable standards", yielding "quite fun" results.[2]
Nat Hentoff, in his book Listen to the Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music, wrote that "Elridge is intimately lyrical on I Surrender Dear and sounds like a whip on other tracks." On Basie's playing, he wrote that he "is moved...to break out into some robust stride piano that hadn't been heard from him in years."[4]
Track listing
- "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 6:45
- "Loose Walk" (Sonny Stitt) – 7:20
- "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 4:37
- "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro) – 3:50
- "I Surrender Dear" (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford) – 5:25
- "5400 North" (Roy Eldridge) – 6:50
Personnel
- Count Basie – piano
- Roy Eldridge – trumpet
- Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis – tenor saxophone
- Freddie Green – guitar
- Al Grey – trombone
- Harold Jones – drums
- Norman Keenan – double bass
References
- ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 3. MUZE. p. 245.
- ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "Loose Walk - Count Basie, Roy Elridge". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 39.
- ^ Hentoff, Nat (1995). Listen to the Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music. Da Capo Press. p. 130. ISBN 0-06-019047-7.
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- The Original American Decca Recordings
- The Count!
- Count Basie and the Kansas City 7
- Basie Swingin' Voices Singin'
- Loose Walk
- Basie Jam
- The Bosses
- For the First Time
- Satch and Josh
- Basie & Zoot
- For the Second Time
- Basie Jam 2
- Basie Jam 3
- Kansas City 5
- The Gifted Ones
- Basie Jam: Montreux '77
- Satch and Josh...Again
- Night Rider
- Count Basie Meets Oscar Peterson – The Timekeepers
- Yessir, That's My Baby
- Kansas City 8: Get Together
- Kansas City 7
- Kansas City 6
- Mostly Blues...and Some Others
- "April in Paris"
- "Corner Pocket"
- "Duet"
- "Every Day I Have the Blues"
- "Hey! Jealous Lover"
- "Jumpin' at the Woodside"
- "Lester Leaps In"
- "Li'l Darlin'"
- "One O'Clock Jump"
- Count Basie Orchestra
- Count Basie Theatre
- Paul Robeson Home
- A Classy Pair
- Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings
- Digital III at Montreux
- Ella and Basie!
- A Perfect Match
- Sinatra–Basie: An Historic Musical First
- Sinatra at the Sands