Live at the Sands (1998)

About this title: 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 ... read more

Tracks:

1. Introduction
2. Splanky [Hefti]
3. I Can't Stop Loving You [Gibson]
4. I Needs to Be Bee'd With [Jones]
5. Flight of the Foo Birds [Hefti]
6. Satin Doll [Strayhorn/Mercer/El]
7. Makin' Whoopee [Donaldson/Kahn]
8. Corner Pocket [Green/Wolf]
9. One O'Clock Jump [Basie]
10. Go Away Little Girl [Ellington/Kemp]
11. Whirlybird [Hefti]
12. Blues for Ilene [Dixon]
13. This Could Be the Start of Something Big [Allen]
14. Jumpin' at the Woodside [Basie]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.