Basie Straight Ahead

Basie Straight Ahead is an album recorded at TTG Studios, Hollywood, California in October 1968 featuring Count Basie and his orchestra. This album marked the first collaboration between Basie and his long-time orchestrator, Sammy Nestico, who composed, arranged and conducted all of the songs on the record[2]. The engineers were Ami Hadani and Thorne Nogar, and the producers were Tom Mack and Teddy Reig. The disc was issued in 1968 on Dot label and on English EMI.

Basie Straight Ahead
Studio album by Count Basie and Orchestra
Released	1968
Recorded	September 1968
Genre	Swing Big band music
Label	Dot
Producer	Tom Mack and Teddy Reig
Count Basie and Orchestra chronology
The Board of Directors Annual Report (1968) Basie Straight Ahead (1968) How About This (1968)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[1]

Track listing

_{All tracks by Sammy Nestico}

1. "Basie - Straight Ahead" – 3:56
2. "It's Oh, So Nice" – 4:10
3. "Lonely Street" – 2:53
4. "Fun Time" – 3:52
5. "Magic Flea" – 3:09
6. "Switch In Time" – 3:58
7. "Hay Burner" – 4:16
8. "That Warm Feeling" – 3:33
9. "The Queen Bee" – 4:13

Personnel

• Count Basie – piano, organ
• Sonny Cohn, Gene Goe, Oscar Brashear, Al Aarons – trumpet
• Grover Mitchell, Richard Boone, Bill Hughes, Steve Galloway – trombone
• Marshal Royal, Bobby Plater – alto saxophone
• Eric Dixon, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis – tenor saxophone
• Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone
• Freddie Green – guitar
• Norman Keenan – double bass
• Harold Jones – drums
• Sammy Nestico - piano (on "That Warm Feeling")

References

1. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 20. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
2. "Interview: Sammy Nestico (Part 2) - JazzWax". www.jazzwax.com. Retrieved 2018-11-08.