Créditos
- Art Direction
- Sheryl Lutz-Brown
- Compiled By [Selected and sequenced by]
- Peter Pullman
- Design [Art designed by]
- Christina Lage, Étsuko Iseki
- Design [Design coordinated by]
- Suzanne Bender
- Executive-Producer
- Richard Seidel
- Mastered By
- Suha Gur
- Other [Special thanks to]
- Phil Schaap, Richard Seidel, and the staff at PolyGram Studios
- Photography By [Cover]
- Chuck Stewart
Notas da edição
Unlike edition, this release has not a Mould SID Code.
On back (tray card):
- Total playing time 65:30
- This compilation:
- ℗ 1994 PolyGram Records, Inc.
- © 1994 PolyGram Records, Inc.
On the inside of the tray card is a list of the first 20 releases in this Verve Jazz Masters series.
On disc:
- ℗ 1993 PolyGram Records, Inc.
- BIEM | STEMRA (boxed)
The three-leaf double-sided printed cover includes a biography and commentary on the songs selected including the following information:
Track 1: Recorded January 5, 1956 in New York - Original LP issue: "Hall of Fame" Verve MGV 8291
Track 2 & 4: Recorded July 26 1955 in New York - Original LP issue: "April in Paris" Verve MGV 8012; available on CD: 825 575-2
Track 3: Recorded August 17, 1954 in New York - Original LP issue: "Basie" Verve MGV 8291
Track 6: Recorded August 17, 1954 in New York - Original LP issue: "Count Basie Dance Session No. 2" Clef MGC 647
Track 5 & 7: Recorded December 15, 1952 in New York - Original 10”-LP issue: Count Basie Sextet Clef MGC 146
Track 8: Recorded May 17, 1955 in New York - Original LP issue: "Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings" Clef MGC 678; available on CD: 519852-2
Track 9: Recorded July 22 or 23, 1952 in New York - Original LP issue: "Our Best (various artists' compilation)" Clef MGC 639
Track 10: Recorded April 21, 1963 in New York - Original LP issue: "Li'l Ol' Groovemaker... Basie!" Verve V6-8549
Track 11: Recorded January 4, 1956 in New York - Original LP issue: April in Paris Verve MGV 8012; available on CD: 825 575-2
Track 12: Recorded December 15, 1952 in New York - Original 10"-LP issue: "Count Basie Sextet" Clef MGC 146
Track 13: Recorded January 25, 1952 - Original 10"-LP issue: "Count Basie and His Orchestra Collates" Clef MGC 120
Track 14, 15 & 16: Recorded July 7, 1957 at the Newport Jazz Festival, Rhode lsland - Original LP issue: "Count Basie at Newport" Verve MGV 8243; available on CD: 833 776-2
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