High Voltage (Count Basie album)

High Voltage
Studio album by Count Basie and His Orchestra
Released 1970
Recorded January 23–25, 1970
A & R Studio, NY
Genre Jazz
Length 34:19
Label MPS
MPS 15 285
Producer Sonny Lester
Count Basie chronology
Basie on the Beatles
(1969)		 Basic Basie
(1969)		 Good Time Blues
(1970)

High Voltage (subtitled Basic Basie Vol. 2) is an album by pianist and bandleader Count Basie featuring performances recorded in 1970 and released on the MPS label.[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars and notes "A dozen generally excellent standards are given overly brief interpretations by the Count Basie Orchestra".[3]

Track listing

  1. "Chicago" (Fred Fisher) - 2:47
  2. "Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:43
  3. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Rogers, Hart) - 2:53
  4. "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington) - 2:47
  5. "Bewitched" (Rogers, Hart) - 4:01
  6. "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) - 2:34
  7. "Get Me to the Church on Time" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) - 2:14
  8. "When Sunny Gets Blue"(Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) - 3:38
  9. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) - 2:15
  10. "Together" (Harry Nilsson) - 3:09
  11. "If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser) - 3:07
  12. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Rogers, Hart) - 2:11

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Kitora, R., Count Basie Discography, accessed November 16, 2015
  2. ↑ SABA/MPS Records listing, accessed November 16, 2015
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. High Voltage – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
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