High Voltage (Count Basie album) explained

High Voltage (subtitled Basic Basie Vol. 2) is an album by pianist and bandleader Count Basie featuring performances recorded in 1970 and released on the MPS label.^{[1] [2]}

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars and notes "A dozen generally excellent standards are given overly brief interpretations by the Count Basie Orchestra".

Track listing

1. "Chicago" (Fred Fisher) - 2:47
2. "Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:43
3. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Rogers, Hart) - 2:53
4. "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington) - 2:47
5. "Bewitched" (Rogers, Hart) - 4:01
6. "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) - 2:34
7. "Get Me to the Church on Time" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) - 2:14
8. "When Sunny Gets Blue"(Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) - 3:38
9. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) - 2:15
10. "Together" (DeSylva-Brown-Henderson) - 3:09
11. "If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser) - 3:07
12. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Rogers, Hart) - 2:11

Personnel

• Count Basie - piano
  • Sonny Cohn, Gene Goe, Joe Newman, Waymon Reed - trumpet Frank Hooks, Grover Mitchell, Buddy Morrow - trombone
• Bill Hughes - bass trombone
  • Bill Adkins, Jerry Dodgion - alto saxophone Eric Dixon - tenor saxophone, flute
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - tenor saxophone
• Cecil Payne - baritone saxophone
• Freddie Green - guitar
• George Duvivier - bass
• Harold Jones - drums
• Chico O'Farrill - arranger

Notes and References

1. Kitora, R., Count Basie Discography, accessed November 16, 2015
2. http://discog.piezoelektric.org/saba/saba-mps.html#15594 SABA/MPS Records listing