Kansas City 8: Get Together
Studio album by
Count Basie
Released1979
RecordedSeptember 4, 1979
GenreJazz
Length43:41
LabelPablo
ProducerNorman Granz
Count Basie chronology
A Perfect Match
(1979) 		Kansas City 8: Get Together
(1979) 		Kansas City Shout
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[2]
Windsor StarB[3]

Kansas City 8: Get Together is a 1979 studio album by Count Basie.[1][4]

Track listing

  1. "Ode to Pres" (Clark Terry) – 4:07
  2. "Basie's Bag" (Count Basie, Ernie Wilkins) – 9:45
  3. "Swinging on the Cusp" (Terry) – 5:41
  4. "Like It Used to Be" (Basie) – 8:29
  5. "My Main Men" (Basie) – 6:10
  6. "Pretty Time: "I Can't Get Started"/"What Will I Tell My Heart"/"Talk of the Town"/"I Can't Give You Anything But Love"/"I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke)/(Irving Gordon, Jack Lawrence, Peter Tinturin)/(Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields)(Doc Daugherty, Al J. Neiburg, Ellis Reynolds) – 9:35

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b "AllMusic review". AllMusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved 2011-06-15.
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
  3. ^ Stevens, Peter (28 Nov 1987). "Jazz". Windsor Star. p. C2.
  4. ^ Smith, Will (29 Nov 1987). "Basie LPs Range from 4 1/2 Stars to Merely 'Nice'". Entertainment. Omaha World-Herald. p. 1.
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