Count Basie fans tend to focus on his hard-driving "Super Chief" bands of the 1940s and his stylistic "New Testament" bands of the 1950s. And rightly so. But often overlooked is Basie's output during the 1960s, when he recorded more than 30 albums, many of them slam-bang swingers. Coming off his Roulette Records contract in the summer of 1962, Basie beg…
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