Count Basie and his Orchestra : [Whirly-bird] / production, Terry Heneberg ; BBC TV.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Heneberg, Terry, producer.

Basie, Count, 1904-1984, performer.

Count Basie Orchestra, performer.

British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, producer.

Harvey Sheldon Jewish American Music Video Research Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz.

Genre:

Music videos.

Concerts.

Performances.

Video recordings.

Penn Provenance:

Sheldon, Harvey (donor)

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

monochrome

Other Title:

Whirlybird

Whirly bird

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 2000 and 2009]

System Details:

DVD-R.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Count Basie in concert, performed live in London on Sept. 18, 1965.

Contents:

All of me / Seymour Simons & Gerald Marks, arr. by Billy Byers (2:50)

Flight of the Foo birds / Neal Hefti (2:51)

The midnight sun never sets / trad., arr. by Quincy Jones (2:57)

Blues for Ilean / Eric Dixon (5:14)

Jumpin' at the Woodside / Count Basie (3:14)

I needs to bee'd with / Quincy Jones (5:31)

April in Paris / Vernon Duke & Edgar "Yip" Harburg, arr. by Wild Bill Davis (3:14)

Li'l darlin' / Neal Hefti (4:03)

Whirly-bird / Neal Hefti (7:44)

One o'clock jump / Count Basie (3:12).

Participant:

Count Basie and his Orchestra.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Harvey Sheldon.