HIGH VOLTAGE (UK)

When in January, 1970 Count Basie entered the studio with his 17-piece big band to record High Voltage, he ushered in the last full decade as bandleader of his Orchestra. The Orchestra had left its imprint on the sixties by recording with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. There would be more great albums with star vocalists in the seventies, but the band's purely instrumental works, which had begun in 1965, would also continue. Back then Basie had engaged acclaimed Cuban composer/arranger Chico O'Farrill to arrange the music for such concept albums as Basie Meets Bond and Basie's Beatle Bag, transforming them into crossover gems. On High Voltage O'Farrill demonstrates his affinity to Basie's big band sound, this time with a repertoire of standards.??Tracklist?Chicago?Have You Met Miss Jones?The Lady Is A Tramp?I'm Getting Sentimental Over You?Bewitched?Day In Day Out?Get Me To The Church On Time?When Sonny Gets Blues?On The Sunny Side Of The Street?Together?If I Were A Bell?I Didn't Know What Time It Was