Blee Blop Blues
- Live From Birdland -


1. Fancy Meeting You
2. Smooth Sailing
3. Paradise Squat

4. Bread
5. Peace Pipe
6. Falling In Love All Over Again
7. Perdido

8. One O'clock Jump
9. Blee Blop Blues
10. Straight Life
11. Peace Pipe
12. Cherry Point
13. How High The Moon
14. Softly With Feeling
15. Fancy Meeting You
16. One O'clock Jump

Personnel (on 1-7) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Gene Ramey (b), Gus Johnson (dr), Reunald Jones, Paul Campbell, Wendell Culley, Joe Newman (tp), Henry Coker, Jimmy Wilkins (tb), Benny Powell (btb), Marshal Royal , Ernie Wilkins (as), Ben Webster, Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bs)

Location & Date :
WMGM broadcast The Band Box, Birdland, NYC, Apr 6, 1953 (1-3)
WMGM broadcast The Band Box, Birdland, NYC, Apr 13, 1953 (4-7)

Personnel (on 8-16) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Eddie Jones (b), Gus Johnson (dr), Reunald Jones, Joe Wilder, Wendell Culley, Joe Newman (tp), Henry Coker, Henderson Chembers (tb), Benny Powell (btb), Marshal Royal , Ernie Wilkins (as), Frank Foster, Frank Wess (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bs)

Location & Date :
NBC "All Star Parade Of Bands" broadcast, Birdland, NYC, Jan 1, 1954