''88 Basie Street'' is a 1983
studio album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...
by
Count Basie
William James "Count" Basie (; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and the ...
.
At the
27th Grammy Awards
The 27th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 26, 1985, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, and were broadcast live in the United States by CBS. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1984.
Award winners
Record of the ...
, Count Basie won the
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band for ''88 Basie Street''.
Track listing
Personnel
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Count Basie
William James "Count" Basie (; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and the ...
– piano
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Sammy Nestico
Samuel Louis Nistico (February 6, 1924 – January 17, 2021), better known as Sammy Nestico, was an American composer and arranger. Nestico is best known for his arrangements for the Count Basie orchestra.
Early life and education
Samuel Luigi ...
– conductor, arranger
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Sonny Cohn
George Thomas Cohn (March 14, 1925 – November 7, 2006), known professionally as Sonny Cohn, was an American jazz trumpeter whose career spanned over six decades. After working for fifteen years with Red Saunders (1945–1960), Cohn went on ...
– flugelhorn, trumpet
* Bob Summers – flugelhorn, trumpet
* Frank Szabo – flugelhorn, trumpet
* Dale Carley – trumpet
* Jim Crawford – trumpet
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Bill Hughes – trombone
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Grover Mitchell
Grover Mitchell, born Grover Curry Mitchell (March 17, 1930 – August 6, 2003) was an American jazz trombonist who led the Count Basie Orchestra.
Biography
Mitchell was born in Whately, Alabama, but he moved with his parents to Pittsburgh, Pen ...
– trombone
* Dennis Wilson – trombone
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Booty Wood
Mitchell W. Wood, better known as Booty Wood (December 27, 1919 – June 10, 1987) was an American jazz trombonist.
Career
Wood played professionally on trombone from the late 1930s. He worked with Tiny Bradshaw and Lionel Hampton in the 1940s ...
– trombone
* Danny Turner – flute, alto saxophone
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Chris Woods
Christopher Charles Eric Woods (born 14 November 1959) is an English football coach and former professional footballer, who is goalkeeping coach for the Scotland national team.
As a player, he was a goalkeeper who played in the Football Leag ...
– flute, alto saxophone
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Eric Dixon
Eric "Big Daddy" Dixon (March 28, 1930 – October 19, 1989) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, flautist, composer, and arranger.
Dixon's professional career extended from 1950 until his death in 1989, during which time he was credited ...
– flute, tenor saxophone
* Eric Schneider – flute, tenor saxophone
* Kenny Hing – tenor saxophone
* John Williams – baritone saxophone
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Joe Pass
Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua; January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. Pass is well known for his work stemming from numerous collaborations with pianist Oscar Peterson and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, an ...
– guitar
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Cleveland Eaton
Cleveland Josephus Eaton II (August 31, 1939July 5, 2020) was an American jazz double bassist, producer, arranger, composer, publisher, and head of his own record company in Fairfield, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. His most famous accompl ...
– double bass
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Dennis Mackrel
Dennis Mackrel (born April 3, 1962) is an American jazz drummer, composer, and arranger who was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.
Career
The son of two jazz enthusiasts, Mackrel started playing drums at age ...
– drums
Production
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Norman Granz
Norman Granz (August 6, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter. He founded the record labels Clef, Norgran, Down Home, Verve, and Pablo. Granz was acknowledged as "the most successful impresar ...
– producer
* Akira Taguchi – producer
* Allen Sides – engineer
* Alan Yoshida – mastering
* Phil DeLancie – remixing
References
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Count Basie Orchestra albums
Pablo Records albums
Albums arranged by Sammy Nestico
Albums produced by Norman Granz
Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
1983 albums