Count Basie & Mills Brothers - The Board Of Directors
Now here is a superb big band and big vocal album bu the union of two of the big un's! Count Basie and his orchestra and the famous quartet the Mills Brothers.....omg who doesnt love the Mills Brothers!!!
A late 60s swinger from The Mills Brothers – with the aging vocal group
get some great assistance from the Count Basie Orchestra! By the time
of this sessions, The Mills Brothers had been recording for at least 4
decades – and although their early hits had gained the group a great
deal of fame, their career as a whole was fading considerably in the
60s. Enter Basie, whose group was still very much at the top of its
form in the decade – thanks to a great ear for transforming older tunes
into fresher takes, and newer tunes into more swinging jazz-based
vehicles. Working here with arranger Dick Hyman, the Basie group gives
the Mills Brothers a soaring, bouncing kind of support – one that takes
their vocals, tightens them up, and really sends the tunes home with a
nice sort of zing! Old and new numbers come off great in the setting –
and titles include "Release Me", "I Want To Be Happy", "Down Down Down",
"I Dig Rock & Roll Music", "Let Me Dream", "April In Paris", "I May
Be Wrong But I Think You're Wonderful", and "Tiny Bubbles"
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