Loose Walk

{{Short description|1972 live album by Count Basie and Roy Eldridge}}

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| name = Loose Walk

| type = live

| artist = Count Basie, Roy Eldridge

| cover = Loose Walk.jpg

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| released = 1972

| recorded = 1972

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| genre = Jazz

| length = 39:44

| label = Pablo

| producer = Norman Granz

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{{Music ratings

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|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=3 |page=245}}

|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev3score = {{rating|2.5|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=39}}

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Loose Walk is a 1972 album by Count Basie and Roy Eldridge.

Reception

Scott Yanow, writing for AllMusic, said that "[i]ronically, the earliest recording by Count Basie for Norman Granz's Pablo label was one of the most recent to be released." He called it "a set of jammable standards", yielding "quite fun" results.

Nat Hentoff, in his book Listen to the Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music, wrote that "Elridge is intimately lyrical on I Surrender Dear and sounds like a whip on other tracks." On Basie's playing, he wrote that he "is moved...to break out into some robust stride piano that hadn't been heard from him in years."{{cite book|last1=Hentoff|first1=Nat|title=Listen to the Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music|year=1995|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=0-06-019047-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/listentostoriesn00hent_0/page/130 130]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/listentostoriesn00hent_0}}

Track listing

"In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 6:45
"Loose Walk" (Sonny Stitt) – 7:20
"Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 4:37
"If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro) – 3:50
"I Surrender Dear" (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford) – 5:25
"5400 North" (Roy Eldridge) – 6:50

Personnel

References

Category:1972 albums

Category:Count Basie albums

Category:Roy Eldridge albums

Category:Pablo Records albums