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Title: A TERRIBLE RECORDING
Review: It pains me seriously to give Basie one star. How did this mess happen. The charts are classic with Freckle Face, Woodside, Basie and Whirly Bird. The side men are the best in the business at the time. Such stars as Sonny Cohn, wonderful Al Grey, Eric Dixon, Freddie Green (the time machine) and, even, the best drummer Basie ever had - Butch Miles - all participated. Finally by the early Seventy's Basie had matured to the point that he was a way of life with great insight into how a band should sound and had reached a level of financial clout to demand the best. So what happened? The sound engineering is awful! One could get better sound quality recording your six year old's class play. Amazingly it is consistantly bad at two different locations in two different countries. Apparently the recording engineer traveled on the bus and should have been jetisoned out the window on the Autobahn. Don't buy the record unless you really need to be infuriated.
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