Count Basie
“Green Onions” (Brunswick) 1968
by Wax Poetics
Written by a teenaged Booker T. and the MG’s six years earlier, Count Basie reinterprets this Southern standard with the help of his expansive orchestra. With Basie on the piano, breathy saxophones double the song’s murky bass line for a jazzy take on a blues classic.
Do you know if there are any copies of this record anywhere for purchase?
– Kent Washburn April 25th, 2011 at 10:08 pm