Basie at Birdland - Count Basie Orchestra (Roulette)

Joe Williams and the Count Basie Orchestra (with Joe Williams) (1993, Telarc)

Accompanying the singer was a quintet led by the pianist Mike Renzi, augmented with members by the Count Basie Orchestra.

So did the Wild Bill Davis arrangement of "April in Paris" made famous by the Count Basie Orchestra, which closed the show.

He thought it seemed feasible to graft Charles's vocal tracks digitally onto fresh backgrounds recorded by the present-day Basie Orchestra, sans Basie, who died in 1984.

Jones left the Basie Orchestra in 1963 to become a freelance arranger and studio player in New York.

Forrest performs an extended version of "Night Train" with the Basie Orchestra in the 1979 film Last of the Blue Devils.

Next Sunday at 5:30 P.M., Frank Foster leads the reconstructed Count Basie Orchestra, which appears in an afternoon of Big Band jazz.

June 3: Count Basie Orchestra.

The Count Basie Orchestra.