这张专辑标志着 Basie 职业生涯光荣新阶段的开始,在大型爵士乐队的风格结构内演绎出令人眼花缭乱的即兴。《The Kid From Red Bank》也为 Basie 提供了展示钢琴技巧的空间,优雅轻快的演绎让他在专辑开篇便能吸引听者,《After Supper》表现出他对舒缓情绪氛围的轻松把握,而中音萨克斯演奏家 Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis 则在《Flight of the Foo Birds》中表现了独奏技艺的不凡。
音乐视频
- Count Basie and His Orchestra
- Jimmie Lunceford
- Thelonious Monk
- Indigo Swing
- Mel Lewis & Thad Jones
- LOUIS ARMSTRONG & Duke Ellington
- Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five & Hilary Alexander