Count Basie duet with Cleveland Eaton: Booty's Blues

You can't have enough of Count Basie and that is certainly true when he plays together with the bassist Cleveland Eaton. Enjoy this fantastic duet between them: soft and playful. In the duet it looks like Cleveland Eaton accidentally slips but Basie use that mistake and adds a chord and makes it look like it was supposed to be like that from the beginning. What great musicians!

Then the whole band kicks in and Booty Wood plays a great trombone solo. Have a look at Count Basie and Cleveland Eaton playing Booty's Blues. Recorded at a Carnegie Hall Concert in March 20, 1981.



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Cleveland Eaton + Count Basie + Kansas City 5

I'll continue the theme with superb jazz double bass playing: Today it's Cleveland Eaton on the double bass when he played with Count Basie & Kansas City 5. What a line up in that band: Roy Eldrige, Zoot Sims and Duffy Jackson.



Cleveland Eaton has a bass sound that I haven't heard anyone else have, it's a kind of thick and full sound, very groovy. Man, I love it!

I like this clip because it first displays the quality of each player and the bonus comes in the last minute of the clip when the musicians play at the same time, the amount of energy they pump into the song is unbelivable. You just got to dig it. I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you can sit still to this music you better see a doctor.

If you like this video clip (I can't image that you don't) you'll also like Cleveland Eaton playing along with Count Basie and Ella Fizgerald in One O'clock Jump.

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One o'clock jump with Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald

Enjoy this video with Count Basie playing his theme song One o'clock jump together with a scating Ella Fitzgerald. And man, listen to those bass lines by Cleveland Eaton. Mmmm.



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