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A nice Basie-Peterson collaboration.Count Basie and Oscar Peterson - Satch and JoshPersonnel: Count Basie (piano, organ); Oscar Peterson (piano); Freddie Green (guitar); Ray Brown (bass); Louis Bellson (drums). Recorded at MGM Recording Studio, Los Angeles, California on December 2, 1974.
Medeski, Martin, & Wood: Note Bleu, Best of the Blue Note Years 1998-2005 '06Heck of a 1 -2 punch there SC, as well as some follow-up blows.
This LOVE this album! My favorite cut is "Nomad" but "Idle Moments" is a classic. Quoted below is a bit of this album's history as quoted from Wikapedia: "The album is best known for the title piece, a slow composition in C minor which lasts for nearly 15 minutes. Pearson, who wrote the song, explains in his liner notes to the album that the tune was meant to be much shorter. Due to the musicians repeating the main melody twice, however, there was some confusion as to whether or not one chorus would consist of 16 or 32 measures.[3] Producer Alfred Lion was satisfied with the take, although he suggested that they do a retake to fit the song into a seven minute limit. However, the song had a special feeling to it which no subsequent take could recapture, so it was decided to release the first take on the album. Two other songs, "Jean De Fleur" and "Django," were re-recorded in shorter renditions to compensate for the length of the title track; the extended renditions of both songs can be heard on the CD re-issues of the album."
A little of the other organ-playing Jimmy today..."Heavy Weight" alone is worth the price of admission on this one...From the All Music Review (Thom Jurek):"This is the first true, all-out funky burner from McGriff, and it sounds very different from most of the other titles on his shelf. Having a band like this helps: trumpeter Blue Mitchell, tenor saxophonist Fats Theus (with Bob Ashton on baritone and Danny Turner on alto), alternating drummers Mel Lewis and Grady Tate, bassist Bob Bushnell, and guitarist Thornel Schwartz were all in their prime in 1968."
