First Time! The Count Meets The Duke - July 6th 1961

It was on This Day in.Jazz, July 6th 1961 - First Time! The Count Meets the Duke is an album by American pianists, composers and bandleaders Duke Ellington and Count Basie with their combined Orchestras was recorded and released on the Columbia label in 1961.Show more

On stereo releases of the album, Basie's band is featured on the left channel and Ellington's on the right.

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars calling it "a very successful and surprisingly uncrowded encounter. On most selections Ellington and Basie both play piano (their interaction with each other is wonderful) and the arrangements allowed the stars from both bands to take turns soloing"

All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated

"Battle Royal" - 5:33
"To You" (Thad Jones) - 3:53
"Take the "A" Train (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:46
"Corner Pocket" [a.k.a. "Until I Met You"] (Freddie Green, Donald Wolf) - 4:53
"Wild Man" [a.k.a. "Wild Man Moore"] - 6:20
"Segue in C" (Frank Wess) - 8:22
"B D B" (Ellington, Strayhorn) - 4:43
"Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Count Basie) - 3:09