Basie Straight Ahead Explained

Basie Straight Ahead
Type:	studio
Artist:	Count Basie and Orchestra
Cover:	Basie Straight Ahead.jpeg
Released:	1968
Recorded:	September 1968
Studio:	TTG (Los Angeles)
Genre:	Swing Big band
Label:	Dot
Producer:	Tom Mack and Teddy Reig
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Basie Straight Ahead is an album recorded at TTG Studios, Hollywood, California in October 1968 featuring Count Basie and his orchestra. This album marked the first collaboration between Basie and his long-time orchestrator, Sammy Nestico, who composed, arranged and conducted all of the songs on the record.^[1] The engineers were Ami Hadani and Thorne Nogar, and the producers were Tom Mack and Teddy Reig. The disc was issued in 1968 on Dot label and on English EMI.

Track listing

_{All tracks by Sammy Nestico}

1. "Basie - Straight Ahead" – 3:56
2. "It's Oh, So Nice" – 4:10
3. "Lonely Street" – 2:53
4. "Fun Time" – 3:52
5. "Magic Flea" – 3:09
6. "Switch In Time" – 3:58
7. "Hay Burner" – 4:16
8. "That Warm Feeling" – 3:33
9. "The Queen Bee" – 4:13

Personnel

• Count Basie – piano, Hammond organ
• Sonny Cohn, Gene Coe, Oscar Brashear, Al Aarons – trumpet
• Grover Mitchell, Richard Boone, Bill Hughes, Steve Galloway – trombone
• Marshal Royal – alto saxophone
• Bobby Plater – alto saxophone, flute
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis – tenor saxophone
• Eric Dixon – tenor saxophone, flute
• Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone
• Freddie Green – guitar
• Norman Keenan – double bass
• Harold Jones – drums
• Sammy Nestico – piano (on "That Warm Feeling")

Notes and References

1. Web site: Interview: Sammy Nestico (Part 2) - JazzWax. www.jazzwax.com. 2018-11-08.