Vintage Basie Like Never Before
Chris Goodson | Statesboro, GA United States | 08/21/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Without a doubt, this series of recordings has the cleanest, clearest, and most robust SOUND of any early Basie I've ever heard! Robert Parker has done it again: It's almost as if the listener were experiencing the musicians performing live, and not SEVEN DECADES later. Jimmy Rushing's vocals boom across the decades like never before; if you don't believe Rushing was one of the greatest Jazz vocalists of all time, you'll be convinced after listening to "Georgianna," "I Keep Remembering," and his other vocals on this album. This is a "must have" for any Count Basie Fan."