Count Basie Big Band - "Farmers Market Barbecue" Analogue Productions label_Riot Season Cass McCombs

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Count Basie Big Band - "Farmers Market Barbecue" Analogue Productions label_Riot Season Cass McCombsFrom his earliest days in territory bands in the Southwest, Count Basie had a secret: How to make a collection of instrumentalists generate rhythmic thrust so irresistible that no listener's foot could remain motionless. Basie's swing was the opposite of tense. Relaxed is what it was, and powerful. Through five and a half decades, Basie never lost the ability to infect a band with his swing magic. This edition of his swing machine, recorded just a