Condition: Brand New Ships from: Melbourne

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• 180-gram vinyl

  Mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tape

  Pressed at Quality Record Pressings

  Housed in Stoughton Printing tip-on single pocket jacket

  One of the pieces on this album is called “The Blues Machine,” which could stand as a description of the big band Count Basie operated for half a century. In the 1983 edition, Basie molded the talents of a mixture of veterans and relative youngsters to produce the immediately identifiable Basie sound and spirit.

  Sam Nestico’s arrangements, so vital to the band in Basie’s final years, are featured on four tracks. On the remaining two, Basie heads up a small unit with saxophonists Chris Woods and Kenny King, the rapidly