The Last Decade


1. The Heat's On
2. A Night In Tunisia
3. In A Mellotone
4. April In Paris
5. The More I See You
6. The Wind Machine
7. G'wan & Git It Y'All
8. Pretty Girl
9. There Will Never Be Another You
10. I Needs To Be Bee'd With
11. Shiny Stockings
12. Jumpin' At The Woodside
13. Things Ain't What They Used To Be
14. Body And Soul
15. Hittin' 12
16. What's New
17. Big Stuff
18. Sweet Georgia Brown
19. Li'l Darlin'
20. Good Time Blues ( Bootie's Blues )
21. A Ghost Of A Chance
22. Whirly-Bird

Personnel (on 7,8,16,17,21) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Norman Keenan (b), Sonny Payne (dr), Paul Cohen, Waymon Reed, Sonny Cohn, Pete Minger (tp), Mel Wanzo, Frank Hooks, John Gordon (tb), Bill Hughes (btb), Bobby Plater, Cartis Peagler (as), Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis, Harold Ousley (ts), John C. Wiliams (bs)

Location & Date :
BBC-TV, "Big Bands At The Dorchester" program, Dorchester Hotel, London, Oct 4, 1973


Personnel (on 1,2,5,10,13-15,19,22) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), John Duke (b), Butch Miles (dr), Lyn Biviano, Waymon Reed, Sonny Cohn, Bobby Mitchell (tp), Al Grey, Mel Wanzo, Dennis Wilson (tb), Bill Hughes (btb), Bobby Plater, Danny Turner (as), Eric Dixon, Jimmy Forrest (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bs)

Location & Date :
BBC-TV "Omnibus : Big Band Jazz" program, Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, UK, May 1, 1977


Personnel (on 3,4,6,9,11,12,18,20) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Cleveland Eaton (b), Greg Field (dr), Willie Cook, Dale Carley, Sonny Cohn, Bob Summers (tp), Grover Mitchell, Mitchell 'Bootie' Wood, Dennis Wilson (tb), Bill Hughes (btb), Bobby Plater, Danny Turner (as), Eric Dixon, Kenny Hing (ts), John C. Williams (bs)

Location & Date :
SDR "Treffpunkt Jazz" recording, Liederhalle, Beethovensaal, Stuttgart, West Germany, Nov 11, 1980