High Voltage (Count Basie album)
{{Infobox album
| name = High Voltage
| type = Studio
| artist = Count Basie and His Orchestra
| cover = High Voltage (Count Basie album).jpg
| alt =
| released = 1970
| recorded = January 23–25, 1970
| venue =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 34:19
| label = MPS
MPS 15 285
| producer = Sonny Lester
| chronology = Count Basie
| prev_title = Basie on the Beatles
| prev_year = 1969
| next_title = Good Time Blues
| next_year = 1970
}}
High Voltage (subtitled Basic Basie Vol. 2) is an album by pianist and bandleader Count Basie featuring performances recorded in 1970 and released on the MPS label.Kitora, R., [http://www.geocities.jp/count_basie_fan_site/discography/high_voltage.html Count Basie Discography], accessed November 16, 2015[http://discog.piezoelektric.org/saba/saba-mps.html#15594 SABA/MPS Records listing], accessed November 16, 2015
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
}}
AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars and notes "A dozen generally excellent standards are given overly brief interpretations by the Count Basie Orchestra".{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0000525622 |title=High Voltage – Review |accessdate=November 16, 2015}}
Track listing
- "Chicago" (Fred Fisher) - 2:47
- "Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:43
- "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Rogers, Hart) - 2:53
- "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington) - 2:47
- "Bewitched" (Rogers, Hart) - 4:01
- "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) - 2:34
- "Get Me to the Church on Time" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) - 2:14
- "When Sunny Gets Blue"(Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) - 3:38
- "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) - 2:15
- "Together" (DeSylva-Brown-Henderson) - 3:09
- "If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser) - 3:07
- "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Rogers, Hart) - 2:11
Personnel
- Count Basie - piano
- Sonny Cohn, Gene Goe, Joe Newman, Waymon Reed - trumpet
- Frank Hooks, Grover Mitchell, Buddy Morrow - trombone
- Bill Hughes - bass trombone
- Bill Adkins, Jerry Dodgion - alto saxophone
- Eric Dixon - tenor saxophone, flute
- Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - tenor saxophone
- Cecil Payne - baritone saxophone
- Freddie Green - guitar
- George Duvivier - bass
- Harold Jones - drums
- Chico O'Farrill - arranger