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. 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.
Track listing All tracks by Sammy Nestico "Basie - Straight Ahead" – 3:56 "It's Oh, So Nice" – 4:10 "Lonely Street" – 2:53 "Fun Time" – 3:52 "Magic Flea" – 3:09 "Switch In Time" – 3:58 "Hay Burner" – 4:16 "That Warm Feeling" – 3:33 "The Queen Bee" – 4:13
Personnel Count Basie – piano, Hammond organ Sonny Cohn, Gene Coe, Oscar Brashear, Al Aarons – trumpet Grover Mitchell, Richard Boone, Bill Hughes, Steve Galloway – trombone Marshal Royal – alto saxophone Bobby Plater – alto saxophone, flute Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis – tenor saxophone Eric Dixon – tenor saxophone, flute Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone Freddie Green – guitar Norman Keenan – double bass Harold Jones – drums Sammy Nestico – piano (on "That Warm Feeling")
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