Fun Time (album)

Fun Time is a 1975 live album by Count Basie and his orchestra, recorded at the 1975 Montreux Jazz Festival.

Track listing

1. "Fun Time" (Sammy Nestico) – 3:28
2. "Why Not?" (Hefti) – 3:29
3. "Lil' Darlin" (Hefti) – 5:32
4. "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 5:39
5. "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 6:33
6. "Good Times Blues" (Ernie Wilkins) – 5:44
7. "I Hate You Baby" (Bill Caffey, Billy Grey, Heard) – 4:44
8. "Lonesome Blues" (Caffey) – 1:50
9. "Whirley Bird" (Hefti) – 9:54
10. "One O'Clock Jump" (Count Basie) – 1:59

Personnel

The Count Basie Orchestra

• Count Basie – piano
• Sonny Cohn – trumpet
• Frank Szabo
• Pete Minger
• Dave Stahl
• Bobby Mitchell
• Bill Hughes – trombone
• Curtis Fuller
• Mel Wanzo – trombone
• Al Grey
• Bobby Plater – alto saxophone
• Danny Turner
• Eric Dixon – tenor saxophone
• Jimmy Forrest
• Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone
• Freddie Green – guitar
• John Duke – double bass
• Butch Miles – drums
• Bill Caffey – Vocals

References