Count Basie Orchestra - High Voltage - Vinyl

When in January, 1970 Count Basie entered the studio with his 17-piece big band to record “High Voltage”, he ushered in the last full decade as bandleader of his Orchestra. The Orchestra had left its imprint on the sixties by recording with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. There would be more great albums with star vocalists in the seventies, but the band’s purely instrumental works, which had begun in 1965, would also continue