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Reddit mentions of The Complete Atomic Basie
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Reddit mentions: 2
We found 2 Reddit mentions of The Complete Atomic Basie. Here are the top ones.
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Specs:
| Height | 0.39 Inches |
| Length | 5.59 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | February 1994 |
| Weight | 0.2075 Pounds |
| Width | 5 Inches |
He did a very good job with a certain sort of relaxing jazz. Good stuff. And there's Brubeck and Goodman and Ellington and Basie and others. For some fine stuff that's more energizing than relaxing, check out Neal Hefti's arrangements for Count Basie in The Complete Atomic Basie or, even perhaps better, Count Basie and His Orchestra Play Neal Hefti. Indeed, these same arrangements are well done by The Frank Capp Juggernaut in In a Hefti Bag. Great stuff.
Resonance Records finds a lot of excellent but previously unreleased recordings and issues them in nice sets. For instance, they have this Thad Jones/Mel Lewis orchestra set as well as this Jaco Pastorius big band set.
For a more recent big bands/large ensemble recording, there's Maria Schneider's The Thompson Fields.
If considering them, take a listen to the samples to see how it compares to what you know he likes. For instance, if his big band tastes are more in line with 30s/40s swing, these may not be a big hit.
Finally, I was mainly thinking of releases from the last few years to reduce tha chance he already has them. If you want a couple classic big band albums, there are The Complete Atomic Basie and Ellington at Newport.