Count Basie Big Band – Farmers Market Barbecue [Stereo] (Analogue Productions Pablo Series Edition)

(AAA) — Lacquers cut from the original analog master tapes by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab. Originally released by Analogue Productions in the 1990s.

180-gram vinyl

Mastered by Doug Sax from the original analog master tape

Pressed at Quality Record Pressings

Housed in Stoughton Printing tip-on single pocket jacket

"I really enjoyed the drum sounds captured here on the slinky sultry version of 'St. Louis Blues' (Side 1, Track 2), with much fine relaxed cymbal work by Gregg Field. Basie's piano doesn't have quite the presence evident on 88 Basie Street, but it's still a lovely sounding recording. ... Farmers Market Barbecue sounds quite, quite good, and it swings pretty hot at times too." — Music = 9/11; Sound = 9/11 — Mark Smotroff, AnalogPlanet.com. Read the whole review here.

From his earliest days in territory bands in the Southwest, Count Basie had a secret: How to make a collection of instrumentalists generate rhythmic thrust so irresistible that no listener's foot could remain motionless.

Basie's swing was the opposite of tense. Relaxed is what it was, and powerful. Through five and a half decades, Basie never lost the ability to infect a band with his swing magic. This edition of his swing machine, recorded just a couple of years before his death, is evidence of the continuing force of that magic.

Pressed from metal parts mastered by Doug Sax from the original analog master tape. Pressed at Quality Record Pressings for superior sound quality, and housed in a Stoughton Printing tip-on single pocket jacket.

(Above description from AcousticSounds.com)