The Paul Smith Trio: Paul Smith (piano); Keeter Betts (bass); Mickey Roker (drums)
Count Basie & his Orchestra: Count Basie (piano); Freddie Green (guitar); Keeter Betts (bass); Mickey Roker (drums); Pete Minger, Sonny Cohn, Paul Cohen, Ray Brown (trumpets); Bootie Wood, Bill Hughes, Mel Wanzo, Dennis Wilson (trombones); Bobby Plater, Danny Turner (alto sax); Eric Dixon, Kenny Hing (tenor sax); Charlie Fowlkes (baritone sax)
You know how it is. Some days you are walking along, minding your business, when, inside a charity shop, you spot a DVD of Ella and Basie at Montreux in 1979! That's what happened to me today and, to make it even sweeter, the asking price was 20p! I didn't haggle, it was cash on the barrelhead. Transaction completed, it was home Lance and don't spare the horses.
An excellent 85 minutes of Ella mainly with the trio - Basie didn't appear until towards the end - although the band did some punchy section work over the course of the opening five numbers.
A few trio numbers including 'Round Midnight where Danny Turner stepped down front to join Ella and co. on flute. The First Lady was in good voice and never more so than on You've Changed.
Basella, as the title implies, featured the Count tinkling the ivories, Ella scatting like it was the eve of Armageddon and the added bonus of Eric Dixon and Bootie Wood slugging it out on tenor and trombone respectively.
All in all it was the best 20p I've ever spent! Lance
Introduction by Nat Hentoff; Please Don't Talk About me When I'm Gone; Sweet Georgia Brown; Some Other Spring; Make me Rainbows; After You've Gone; 'Round Midnight; Dindi; Fine and Mellow; I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You; Flying Home; You've Changed; Honeysuckle Rose; St Louis Blues; Basella; I've Got a Crush on You.
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for 20 pence ,you should be arrested! come this way please
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