Description
Paul Quinichette: For Basie - Freddie Green, Walter Page, Jo Jones, Nat Pierce / Prestige Audio CD 1998 / P-7127
UPC 090204662999 / 025218697828
Total time: 38:27
PAUL QUINICHETTE - tenor saxophone
SHAD COLLINS - trumpet
NAT PIERCE - piano
FREDDIE GREEN - guitar WALTER PAGE-bass
JO JONES - drums
The album also includes liner notes by Bob Weinstock.
The CD is made in Germany and distributed by ZYX Music.
For Basie is an album by American jazz saxophonist Paul Quinichette featuring tracks recorded in 1957 and released on the Prestige label.
No one among Lester Young's imitators (dozens, hundreds, thousands) "did" the great tenor saxophonist with more joy, authenticity, and exuberance than Paul Quinichette. Other tenor players, from Budd Johnson to Zoot Sims, used Pres as a point of departure for their styles. Quinichette unabashedly and enthusiastically adopted Young's style lock, stock, and barrel. He used it to such great effect that rather than criticize him the appropriation, his fellow musicians praised him and called him the Vice President. In this 1957 date, Quinichette is supported by the legendary "All American" rhythm section of bassist Walter Page, guitarist Freddie Green, and drummer Jo Jones, with Nat Pierce filling Count Basie's piano chair. Joining him in the front line is veteran Basie trumpeter Shad Collins, a swing trumpeter with hints of bebop in his style.
Tenor saxist Paul Quinichette was blessed (or was it cursed) with having the EXACT same tone and phrasing as the iconic Lester Young. Count it to our advantage on this 57 session with ex-Basie-ites Shad Collins/tp, Nat Pierce/p, Freddie Greene/g, Walter Page/b and Jo Jones/dr through a loose as a goose session of Kansas City Swing. The pace of “Rock A Bye Basie” and “Jive At Five” is just right, with Quinichette sounding luscious. These guys did the impossible,making a four piece rhythm section float like a feather.
| Label: | Prestige – P-7127 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
1998 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Style: | Swing |
Tracklist:
- Rock-A-Bye Basie (6:34)
- Texas Shuffle (7:02)
- Out the Window (7:33)
- Jive at Five (9:45)
- Diggin' for Dex (7:10)
- "Rock-a-Bye Basie" (Count Basie, Shad Collins) – 6:34
- "Texas Shuffle" (Herschel Evans) – 7:02
- "Out the Window" (Basie, Eddie Durham) – 7:33
- "Jive at Five" (Basie, Harry Edison) – 9:45
- "Diggin' for Dex" (Basie, Durham) – 7:10
- Bass – Walter Page
- Drums – Jo Jones
- Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
- Guitar – Freddie Green
- Piano – Nat Pierce
- Remastered By – Phil De Lancie
- Supervised By – Bob Weinstock
- Tenor Saxophone – Paul Quinichette
- Trumpet – Shad Collins
- Recording date: October 18, 1957
- Recording engineer: Rudy Van Gelder
- Remastering engineer: Phil De Lancie
Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars and reviewer Scott Yanow stated, "the sextet jams on five Basie-associated tunes from the 1930s and 40s, none of which are exactly overplayed ... Each of the songs serves as a strong vehicle for swing-oriented solos and the musicians sound quite inspired. Recommended". In JazzTimes, Stanley Dance wrote "Paul Quinichette was not styled the Vice-Pres for nothing. Of all the tenor players Lester Young inspired, he passed on the message the most faithfully. He was too often dismissed as an imitator, but Young’s language seemed to be natural to him, so that his flow was not broken up by the fashionable ejaculations necessary to others. The program of Basie hits perhaps imposed limitations of another kind".
