Fun Time (album)

Fun Time
Live album by Count Basie
Released	1975
Recorded	July 19, 1975
Genre	Jazz
Length	42:24
Label	Pablo
Producer	Norman Granz
Count Basie chronology
Basie Big Band (1975) Fun Time (1975) I Told You So (1976)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Fun Time is a 1975 live album by Count Basie and his orchestra, recorded at the 1975 Montreux Jazz Festival. ^[2]

Track listing

1. "Fun Time" (Sammy Nestico) – 3:28
2. "Why Not?" (Hefti) – 3:29
3. "Lil' Darlin" (Hefti) – 5:32
4. "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 5:39
5. "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 6:33
6. "Good Times Blues" (Ernie Wilkins) – 5:44
7. "I Hate You Baby" (Bill Caffey, Billy Grey, Heard) – 4:44
8. "Lonesome Blues" (Caffey) – 1:50
9. "Whirley Bird" (Hefti) – 9:54
10. "One O'Clock Jump" (Count Basie) – 1:59

Personnel

The Count Basie Orchestra

• Count Basie - piano
• Sonny Cohn - trumpet
• Frank Szabo
• Pete Minger
• Dave Stahl
• Bobby Mitchell
• Bill Hughes - trombone
• Curtis Fuller
• Mel Wanzo
• Al Grey
• Bobby Plater - alto saxophone
• Danny Turner
• Eric Dixon - tenor saxophone
• Jimmy Forrest
• Charlie Fowlkes - baritone saxophone
• Freddie Green - guitar
• John Duke - double bass
• Butch Miles - drums
• Bill Caffey - Vocals

References