Dance Session

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{{Infobox album

| name = Dance Session

| type = Studio

| artist = Count Basie

| cover = Dance_Session.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1954

| recorded = August 13 and December 12, 1953
Los Angeles, CA and Fine Sound, New York City

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 34:39

| label = Clef
MG C-626

| producer = Norman Granz

| chronology = Count Basie

| prev_title = Basie Rides Again!

| prev_year = 1952

| next_title = Dance Session Album #2

| next_year = 1954

}}

Dance Session is an album by pianist/bandleader Count Basie recorded in 1953 and became Basie's first 12-inch LP when it was originally released on the Clef label.Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. [http://www.bsnpubs.com/new/clef.pdf Clef Label Discography], accessed November 18, 2015Kitora, R., [http://www.geocities.jp/count_basie_fan_site/discography/dance_session1.html Count Basie Discography], accessed November 18, 2015[http://www.jazzdisco.org/verve-records/clef-records-catalog-600-series/#mgc-626 Clef Records Catalog: 600 series], accessed November 18, 2015[http://www.ne.jp/asahi/bigband/paradise/favorite/basie95.htm Big Band Paradise] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305031640/http://www.ne.jp/asahi/bigband/paradise/favorite/basie95.htm |date=2016-03-05 }}, accessed November 18, 2015 Selections from this album were also released on the 1956 Clef LPs Basie Roars Again and King of Swing.