Count Basie On V-Disc Vol.3
(1943-47)


1. Sugar Hill Shuffle
2. Just An Old Manuscript
3. I'm Fer It Too
4. Red Bank Boogie ("G.I. Stomp" )
5. Dance Of The Gremlins
6. Yeah Man
7. Rhythm Man
8. Jumpin' At The Woodside
9. It's Sand, Man!
10. I Never Knew
11. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
12. Tush
13. The King
14. Robbins Nest

Personnel (on 1-3) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Rodney Richardson (b), Shadow Wilson (dr), Ed Lewis, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Al Killian, Joe Newman (tp), Dicky Wells, Ted Donnelly, Eli Robinson, Louis Taylor (tb), Earl Warren (as,vo), Jimmy Powell (as), Buddy Tate, Lucky Thompson (ts), Rudy Rutherford (cl,bs)

Location & Date : Lang-Worth transcriptions, Columbia Studios, Liederkranz Hall, NYC, Feb 13, 1945

Personnel (on 4-10) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Walter Page (b), Joe Jones (dr), Ed Lewis, Buck Clayton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Snooky Young (tp), Dicky Wells, Robert Scott, Eli Robinson, Louis Taylor (tb), Earl Warren (as,vo), Jimmy Powell (as), Don Byas, Buddy Tate (ts), Jack Washington (bs)

Location & Date :
AFRS "Command Performance" program, NBC Studio D, Hollywood, mid-Jun, 1943 (4,5)
AFRS "Down Beat" transcriptions, Hollywood, Jun or Jul, 1943 (6-10)

Personnel (on 11,12) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Rodney Richardson (b), Shadow Wilson (dr), Ed Lewis, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Snooky Young, Karl George (tp), Dicky Wells, Ted Donnelly, J.J.Johnson, Eli Robinson (tb), George Dorsey, Preston Love (as), Buddy Tate, Lucky Thompson (ts), Rudy Rutherford (cl,bs)

Location & Date :
AFRS "Jubilee" program, NBC Studio D, Hollywood, Sep 24, 1945 (11)
AFRS "Jubilee" program, NBC Studio D, Hollywood, Oct 1, 1945 (12)

Personnel (on 13,14) : Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (gt), Singleton Palmer (b), Shadow Wilson (dr), Jimmy Nottingham, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Emmett Berry, Clark Terry (tp), Dicky Wells, Ted Donnelly, Bill Johnson, George Matthews (tb), Earl Warren (as,vo), Bernie Peacock (as), Paul Gonsalves, Wardell Gray (ts), Jack Washington (bs)

Location & Date :
WMGM broadcast, the Royal Roost, NYC, Sep 25, 1948

V-ディスク は第2次世界大戦中、アメリカ軍将兵の慰問用にアメリカ政府が1942年末から48年末まで製造されたSP盤。1942年8月1日から44年11月末まで行われたアメリカのミュージシャンユニオンによる全レコード会社に対する吹き込みストライキによって、この間に吹き込まれたジャズのレコードは、V-ディスクとAFRSトランスクリプション以外には残っていないことから、貴重な録音としてファンに重宝されています。