Jazztropic Posted February 19, 2011 Report Posted February 19, 2011 Can anyone tell me what cd contains the song"Little Pony With Count Basie"?I read about it but can not find any listings.Much Appreciated. Quote
golfcrazy1984 Posted February 19, 2011 Report Posted February 19, 2011 Hi, my local record store had an LP with Stan Getz joining the Basie Band. I listened to it, ok performance and ok recording. I think it was either on a Birdland tour or at Birdland in the early 50s. I may check my Count Basie Bio-Discography. I don't know if it's on cd. From what I remember he was only on one or two tracks. Hope that helps. Getz sounded like Getz, but give me Frank Foster on that tune any day. Quote
J.A.W. Posted February 19, 2011 Report Posted February 19, 2011 The song is "Little Pony" and it's on the Stan Getz 3CD-box The Complete Roost Recordings. The set has three tracks with the Count Basie Orchestra, "Little Pony", "Easy Living" and "Nails", recorded live at Birdland, NYC on December 16, 1954; they're the last three on the set. Quote
king ubu Posted February 19, 2011 Report Posted February 19, 2011 (edited) The three tracks on the Roost set are a fun coda to an essential set of music! The Birdland Stars on Tour stuff can be found on the double Jazz Classics CD set Count Basie, Lester Young And The Stars Of Birdland On Tour!. "Little Pony" starts off disc two - I don't have it here to check, not sure Getz is actually on it, will see if I can find it. EDIT: just found it - "Little Pony" is indeed with Getz: CD1 #1-3: Count Basie Orchestra #4-6: Lester Young & Count Basie Orchestra #7-9: Joe Williams & Count Basie Orchestra #10-16: George Shearing Quintet CD2: #1-4: Stan Getz & Count Basie Orchestra #5-9: Erroll Garner Trio #10-17: Sarah Vaughan & Count Basie Orchestra #18-19 (encores): Joe Williams & Count Basie Orchestra Edited February 19, 2011 by king ubu Quote
Peter Friedman Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 I have "Little Pony" by Getz with Basie on a different 2 CD set as follows. BIRDLAND ALL-STARS AT CARNEGIE HALL - ROULETTE CDP-0777 7 98660 2 The 2 CD set has 2 additional track of Getz with Basie. Also there are 2 tracks featuring Lester Young with Basie, 6 tracks featuring Billie Holiday with Basie, as well as 8 additional tracks by Basie. This set also has 3 tracks by the Charlie Parker Quartet, and 13 tracks by Sarah Vaughan, some with Basie, and some with her trio. All in all a marvelous 2 CD set. Quote
king ubu Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 Peter, is that all from one concert or is it a compilation of various Carnegie Hall concerts? Never heard of that one! Quote
J.A.W. Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 Peter, is that all from one concert or is it a compilation of various Carnegie Hall concerts? Never heard of that one! Seek and ye shall find: AMG Amazon Amazon Germany Amazon U.K. Amazon France Quote
king ubu Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 Peter, is that all from one concert or is it a compilation of various Carnegie Hall concerts? Never heard of that one! Seek and ye shall find: AMG Amazon Amazon Germany Amazon U.K. Amazon France Amazing, thanks! Never even heard of this before!But the amazon-links all lead to single disc releases... Quote
J.A.W. Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 But the amazon-links all lead to single disc releases... Amazon and Amazon Germany give the correct number of discs: 2. All four sites have the same ASIN: B000008ADB, so it's the same set. Quote
medjuck Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 But the amazon-links all lead to single disc releases... Amazon and Amazon Germany give the correct number of discs: 2. All four sites have the same ASIN: B000008ADB, so it's the same set. Amazon US seems to have 2 items with similar titles. The 2 disc (it says) is the one that's $22+ from various sellers. Quote
king ubu Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 Can one really trust the ASIN numbers with marketplace vendors? I'd tend not to... will check more closely, thanks a lot! Quote
Larry Kart Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 Hi, my local record store had an LP with Stan Getz joining the Basie Band. I listened to it, ok performance and ok recording. I think it was either on a Birdland tour or at Birdland in the early 50s. I may check my Count Basie Bio-Discography. I don't know if it's on cd. From what I remember he was only on one or two tracks. Hope that helps. Getz sounded like Getz, but give me Frank Foster on that tune any day. Frank Foster? Don't you mean Wardell Gray? Quote
J.A.W. Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 But the amazon-links all lead to single disc releases... Amazon and Amazon Germany give the correct number of discs: 2. All four sites have the same ASIN: B000008ADB, so it's the same set. Amazon US seems to have 2 items with similar titles. The 2 disc (it says) is the one that's $22+ from various sellers. You're right. The correct ASIN of the 2CD-set is B0009YLH68. The ones I linked to on Amazon U.K. and Amazon France seem to be single CDs indeed. Sorry I messed things up. Can one really trust the ASIN numbers with marketplace vendors? I'd tend not to... will check more closely, thanks a lot! No, not with marketplace vendors, I've been burnt a few times. If they sell anything I'm interested in but not sure about, I now always ask them first. Quote
king ubu Posted February 26, 2011 Report Posted February 26, 2011 I ordered one with this cover: That seems to be the 2CD set indeed.It's also listed with that cover on CDUniverse, but the link there to Amazon Marketplace (I've wondered for a while... what's the affiliation of CDU and Amazon? Was CDU taken over?) leads to the same chaotic entries. Quote
bichos Posted February 27, 2011 Report Posted February 27, 2011 I ordered one with this cover: That seems to be the 2CD set indeed. It's also listed with that cover on CDUniverse, but the link there to Amazon Marketplace (I've wondered for a while... what's the affiliation of CDU and Amazon? Was CDU taken over?) leads to the same chaotic entries. king ubu, that´s the right one! it has the complete carnegie hall concert with basie, bird, lady day, prez, sassy from september 25, 1954 (lady day and also bird are not in good form) and five tracks from birdland (basie with stan getz) from december 16, 1954. keep boppin´ marcel Quote
king ubu Posted February 27, 2011 Report Posted February 27, 2011 Good to know! I do hope I'll really get that one! Quote
jdw Posted February 27, 2011 Report Posted February 27, 2011 There definitely is a single CD version of the "Birdland Allstars At Carnegie Hall." It was released by Roulette in 1987, before the catalogue was purchased by EMI. The CD has 23 tracks, catalogue number RCD 58009. The 1987 CD's packaging doesn't have a barcode but the cover is almost exactly the same, so it's possible that uniformed retailers and ebay sellers will get this version mixed up with the 2 CD EMI set. Quote
medjuck Posted March 4, 2011 Report Posted March 4, 2011 (edited) Arghhhh. Mine just arrived and it's the single cd set! In fairness the seller never said it was 2 cds . I got it through the Amazon link above. I have now found another seller under the same link that is selling a 2cd set for $8.95 but it's called The Birdland All Stars LIVE at Carnegie Hall and there's no picture. I've ordered it anyway. We'll see what I get. And meanwhile I'm happy to have the single cd for now just because of the Bird, Lady and Prez cuts. (Though I haven't listened to them yet.) Edited March 4, 2011 by medjuck Quote
medjuck Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 Me too. (Actually it arrived a couple of days ago.) Quote
king ubu Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 Glad to hear that! I overpayed... but nevermind - I wanted this! More Pres! Why weren't these Basie tracks part of the Roulette Live Mosaic? (Or are they and I forgot? Didn't look it up right now.) Quote
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