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Frank Sinatra's collaborations with Count Basie were among the singer's better ventures back into jazz in the early 1960s, and led not only to a couple of great studio albums, and one superb live Sinatra album, but also to Basie's being signed to the Sinatra-founded Reprise label in the mid-'60s. The 53 minutes of music captured on Live at the Sands was recorded during the opening sets from three different shows in late January and early February of 1966, by Basie and his band during the engagement with Sinatra at the Sands Hotel that yielded that live Sinatra album. Maybe that raises the expectations, because this release is a slight disappointment -- the band sounds OK, but except for Basie himself and drummer Sonny Payne, it seems like they're walking their way through some of this repertoire. There are a number of good moments here: "I Needs to Be Bee'd With," "Flight of the Foo Birds," "Satin Doll," "Blues for Home," and "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" (which is worth hearing for the ensemble work and Eric Dixon and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis' solos); the band finally takes flight, but compared with some of the recordings of complete shows by Basie that are nothing less than great, a lot of this is secondary. Given the fact that it was Sinatra's set that was going to be taped for release for certain, the band may, indeed, have been holding back during its own set, for good reason. Even the audience response says it, positive and polite but not excessive -- they were there for Sinatra, and nothing Basie and company did were likely to bowl them over, so why make the effort? It's not a bad set, and some of it -- "Makin' Whoopee" (especially the call and response on the piano), "Corner Pocket," and "Jumpin' at the Woodside" -- has great appeal. But this is overall a legendary band doing a somewhat less-than-legendary set, during some gigs that, in fairness, yielded up a great live album elsewhere. The quality is solid live sound, in crisp stereo from a nicely controlled mid-'60s venue, using state-of-the-art equipment.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
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Count Basie, MainArtist - SONNY BURKE, Producer - MATT PIERSON, Producer - DANA WATSON, Producer - JAMES FARBER, Remixer - LOWELL FRANK, Engineer
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 1998 Warner Records Inc.
Count Basie, MainArtist - SONNY BURKE, Producer - Neal Hefti, Composer - MATT PIERSON, Producer - DANA WATSON, Producer - JAMES FARBER, Remixer - LOWELL FRANK, Engineer
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 1998 Warner Records Inc.
Don Gibson, Writer - Count Basie, MainArtist - SONNY BURKE, Producer - MATT PIERSON, Producer - DANA WATSON, Producer - JAMES FARBER, Remixer - LOWELL FRANK, Engineer
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 1993 Reprise Records
Quincy Jones, Composer, Arranger - Count Basie, MainArtist - SONNY BURKE, Producer - MATT PIERSON, Producer - DANA WATSON, Producer - JAMES FARBER, Remixer - LOWELL FRANK, Engineer
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 1998 Warner Records Inc.
Count Basie, MainArtist - SONNY BURKE, Producer - Neal Hefti, Composer - MATT PIERSON, Producer - DANA WATSON, Producer - JAMES FARBER, Remixer - LOWELL FRANK, Engineer
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 1998 Warner Records Inc.
Duke Ellington, Lyricist - Count Basie, MainArtist - SONNY BURKE, Producer - MATT PIERSON, Producer - DANA WATSON, Producer - JAMES FARBER, Remixer - LOWELL FRANK, Engineer
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 1998 Warner Records Inc.
Walter Donaldson, Lyricist - Count Basie, MainArtist - SONNY BURKE, Producer - Gus Kahn, Lyricist - MATT PIERSON, Producer - DANA WATSON, Producer - JAMES FARBER, Remixer - LOWELL FRANK, Engineer
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 1998 Warner Records Inc.
Count Basie, MainArtist - Ernie Wilkins, Arranger - SONNY BURKE, Producer - MATT PIERSON, Producer - DANA WATSON, Producer - JAMES FARBER, Remixer - Freddie Green, Composer - Wolf, Writer - LOWELL FRANK, Engineer - Ghreen, Composer
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 1998 Warner Records Inc.
William Basie, Lyricist - Count Basie, MainArtist - SONNY BURKE, Producer - MATT PIERSON, Producer - DANA WATSON, Producer - JAMES FARBER, Remixer - LOWELL FRANK, Engineer
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 1998 Warner Records Inc.
Duke Ellington, Lyricist - Count Basie, MainArtist - SONNY BURKE, Producer - MATT PIERSON, Producer - DANA WATSON, Producer - JAMES FARBER, Remixer - LOWELL FRANK, Engineer - CHUBBY KEMP, Lyricist
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 1998 Warner Records Inc.
N. Hefti, Composer - Count Basie, MainArtist - SONNY BURKE, Producer - Neal Hefti, Lyricist - MATT PIERSON, Producer - DANA WATSON, Producer - JAMES FARBER, Remixer - Hefti, Composer, Writer - LOWELL FRANK, Engineer
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 1998 Warner Records Inc.
Eric Dixon, Lyricist - Count Basie, MainArtist - SONNY BURKE, Producer - MATT PIERSON, Producer - DANA WATSON, Producer - JAMES FARBER, Remixer - LOWELL FRANK, Engineer
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 1998 Warner Records Inc.
Count Basie, MainArtist - SONNY BURKE, Producer - MATT PIERSON, Producer - DANA WATSON, Producer - JAMES FARBER, Remixer - Steve Allen, Lyricist - LOWELL FRANK, Engineer
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 2000 v2 Conversion P Credit
Count Basie, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist - SONNY BURKE, Producer - MATT PIERSON, Producer - DANA WATSON, Producer - JAMES FARBER, Remixer - LOWELL FRANK, Engineer
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 1998 Warner Records Inc.
Album review
Frank Sinatra's collaborations with Count Basie were among the singer's better ventures back into jazz in the early 1960s, and led not only to a couple of great studio albums, and one superb live Sinatra album, but also to Basie's being signed to the Sinatra-founded Reprise label in the mid-'60s. The 53 minutes of music captured on Live at the Sands was recorded during the opening sets from three different shows in late January and early February of 1966, by Basie and his band during the engagement with Sinatra at the Sands Hotel that yielded that live Sinatra album. Maybe that raises the expectations, because this release is a slight disappointment -- the band sounds OK, but except for Basie himself and drummer Sonny Payne, it seems like they're walking their way through some of this repertoire. There are a number of good moments here: "I Needs to Be Bee'd With," "Flight of the Foo Birds," "Satin Doll," "Blues for Home," and "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" (which is worth hearing for the ensemble work and Eric Dixon and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis' solos); the band finally takes flight, but compared with some of the recordings of complete shows by Basie that are nothing less than great, a lot of this is secondary. Given the fact that it was Sinatra's set that was going to be taped for release for certain, the band may, indeed, have been holding back during its own set, for good reason. Even the audience response says it, positive and polite but not excessive -- they were there for Sinatra, and nothing Basie and company did were likely to bowl them over, so why make the effort? It's not a bad set, and some of it -- "Makin' Whoopee" (especially the call and response on the piano), "Corner Pocket," and "Jumpin' at the Woodside" -- has great appeal. But this is overall a legendary band doing a somewhat less-than-legendary set, during some gigs that, in fairness, yielded up a great live album elsewhere. The quality is solid live sound, in crisp stereo from a nicely controlled mid-'60s venue, using state-of-the-art equipment.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:53:00
- Main artists: Count Basie
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rhino - Warner Records
- Genre: Jazz
© 1998 Reprise Records. ℗ 1998 Reprise Records. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
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