Count Basie & His Orchestra - "April In Paris" label_Saddle Creek The band's sophomore effort and

The band's sophomore effort and first since 2011 channels a haunting romanticism and deep spiritual yearning that collide in beautiful melancholy

The Dream is an album of intrigue

" This album is a highly personal take on Brown's ruminations on life and the changes that have occurred -and those that didn't -following the ups and downs of career success

recording and finally releasing the follow up to his 1997 breakthrough album Ladies And Gentlemen

Producer Marshall Chess suggested that Muddy Waters recorded it in an attempt to appeal to a rock audience

Count Basie & His Orchestra - "April In Paris" label_Saddle Creek The band's sophomore effort andVinyl LP pressing of this album from the Jazz icon. Hailed as an instant classic, this is big band heaven and one of the greatest opening tracks on any album. The album oozes swing and helped reconnect jazz lovers with one of the finest bands of the swing era. Yet there is nothing retrospective in this album; it is alive with vitality, elegance, sophistication and modernity. Tip of the hat to Freddie Green, the man who established the rhythm guitar as