Complete Decca Recordings

Count Basie and His Orchestra

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The Definition of Swing

Read all about this recording in the book 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die.

Genre: Jazz
Released: 2000, Decca/MCA
Catalog Choice: Atomic Swing
Next Stop: Bennie Moten: 1923-1927
After That: Jimmie Lunceford: Rhythm Is Our Business

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About 1,000 Recordings

Celebrate the joy, the revelation, the mystery, the fun, the sheer shivers-up-the-spine pleasure of great music.

Essential operas. Milestone rock albums. An education in the blues. The world of world. Classical from Bach to Bartók to Beethoven to Brahms. And dozens of unexpected gems, surprising discoveries, and long-lost masterpieces.

This is an online version of the list (published alphabetically in the book). The entries in the book break down genre bias and broaden every listener’s horizons—think Miles Davis to Claude Debussy to the melodic story-songs of The Decemberists. And the writing is passionate, informed, opinionated.

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