2011-08-19 - Count Basie Tribute by the Brad Leali Tentet at the Blue Room

Saxophonist Brad Leali, who seems to be pretty famous for working in the Count Basie Orchestra (unfortunately this was long after Basie himself had passed on) assembled a nonet to pay tribute to Count Basie and his swinging sound during a two-nights-only performance at the historic Blue Room bar in the American Jazz Museum Building on the 18th & Vine Historical District, Kansas City, Missouri. The group of trumpeters, trombonists, saxophonists, cellist and drummer, appropriately called the Brad Leali Nonet, became a tentet because they were joined by a German pianist. I really liked how they allowed each and every player in the tentet to have a solo of his own. The group didn't just play purely Count Basie music though; they also shared their own original compositions.

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