Kansas City 8: Get Together

Kansas City 8: Get Together is a 1979 studio album by Count Basie.^[1][2]

Track listing

1. "Ode to Pres" (Clark Terry) – 4:07
2. "Basie's Bag" (Count Basie, Ernie Wilkins) – 9:45
3. "Swinging on the Cusp" (Terry) – 5:41
4. "Like It Used to Be" (Basie) – 8:29
5. "My Main Men" (Basie) – 6:10
6. "Pretty Time: "I Can't Get Started"/"What Will I Tell My Heart"/"Talk of the Town"/"I Can't Give You Anything But Love"/"I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke)/(Irving Gordon, Jack Lawrence, Peter Tinturin)/(Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields)(Doc Daugherty, Al J. Neiburg, Ellis Reynolds) – 9:35

Personnel

• Count Basie - piano
• Budd Johnson - baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - tenor saxophone
• Clark Terry - trumpet, flugelhorn
• Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet
• Freddie Green - guitar
• John Clayton - double bass
• Gus Johnson - drums

References

1. ^ "AllMusic review". AllMusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved 2011-06-15.
2. ^ Smith, Will (29 Nov 1987). "Basie LPs Range from 4 1/2 Stars to Merely 'Nice'". Omaha World-Herald. p. 1.