Imagine the most pimped out breakfast you can. Eggs stacked to the ceiling, fresh orange juice and mountains of fluffy pancakes, pastries of every description threatening to topple over and crush you. Coffee so fresh it looks like an oil slick on tar. Serve it all on fresh linens draped over card tables set up in a park, beautiful spring morning, fresh green life everywhere. Now add yourself in formal wear, smashed on mimosas at 7 am, Sunday. That's what this album sounds like.I found it on a random journey through Basie's work and I think it stands tall in a damn fine collection of works. Especially nice for me is "In a Mellow Tone", track 3 on the cd release. It's great for waking up in the morning, a real mellow slow start that builds up to a swinging ass brass wall that'll knock the fuzz right out of your head. Damn that's nice. This platter snaps its fingers with Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra and the crew while picking out a fresh suit at the department store, winking at your mom.
Good for: Searching for that mythic middle ground between elegant, wasted and waking up.
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