1973 studio album by Big Joe Turner, Count Basie
The Bosses is a 1973 album by American blues shouter "Big Joe" Turner accompanied by a small group led by Count Basie , recorded in 1973 and released on the Pablo label.[ 1]
An Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated that it was one of Turner's better late-period albums, and that he was on top form on "Night Time Is the Right Time," "Wee Baby Blues" and "Roll 'Em Pete ".[ 1]
"The Honeydripper" (Joe Liggins ) - 6:42 "Honey Hush " (Nat King Cole , Big Joe Turner , Lou Willie Turner) - 2:37 "Cherry Red" (Pete Johnson , Big Joe Turner) - 4:42 "Night Time Is the Right Time " (Leroy Carr , Lew Herman) - 3:54 "Blues Around the Clock" (Willie Bryant ) - 4:58 "Since I Fell for You " (Buddy Johnson ) - 3:55 "Flip, Flop and Fly " (Chuck Calhoun , Lou Willie Turner) - 3:28 "Wee Baby Blues" (Johnson, Big Joe Turner) - 5:37 "Good Morning Blues" (Count Basie , Eddie Durham , Jimmy Rushing ) - 3:50 "Roll 'Em Pete " (Johnson, Turner) - 4:16
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Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release (except for the film scores)
As leader or co-leader WithKai Winding Albums as sideman or arranger/ composer Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (1955) Sayin' Somethin' (Nat Adderley , 1966) The Soul of the City (Manny Albam , 1966) Basie Jam (Count Basie , 1973) The Bosses (Count Basie/"Big Joe" Turner , 1973) Night Song (Kenny Burrell , 1969) I'm Tryin' to Get Home (Donald Byrd , 1964) New York Slick (Ron Carter , 1979) Birth of the Cool (Miles Davis , 1949–50) Young Man with a Horn /Miles Davis Volume 1 /Miles Davis Volume 2 (1952) Summertime (Paul Desmond , 1968) Afro-Cuban (Kenny Dorham , 1955) At the Opera House (Ella Fitzgerald , 1957) The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Dizzy Gillespie , 1949) Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions (Dizzy Gillespie , 1951) Afro (Dizzy Gillespie, 1954) Dizzy and Strings (Dizzy Gillespie, 1954) Perceptions (Dizzy Gillespie, a/c only, 1960) The Modern Touch (Benny Golson , 1957) The Hawk Flies High (Coleman Hawkins , 1957) Lady in Satin (Billie Holiday , 1958) And Then Again (Elvin Jones , 1965) The Modern Jazz Society Presents a Concert of Contemporary Music (John Lewis , 1955) The Big Band (Jimmy McGriff , 1966) Happenings (Hank Jones & Oliver Nelson , 1966) Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oliver Nelson , 1965–66) Nine Flags (Chico O'Farrill , 1966) Charlie Parker on Dial (1947) Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (1957) Alfie (Sonny Rollins , 1966) Carnival of the Spirits (Moacir Santos , 1975) New Fantasy (Lalo Schifrin , 1964) Once a Thief and Other Themes (Lalo Schifrin, 1965) The Cape Verdean Blues (Horace Silver , 1965) Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones (1955) The Matadors Meet the Bull (Sonny Stitt , 1965) What's New!!! (Sonny Stitt, 1966) Joyride (Stanley Turrentine , 1965) Film scores
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As leader or co-leader The Brothers (and Stan Getz , 1949–52) Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956) The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956) Tonite's Music Today (and Bob Brookmeyer , 1956) Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956) Zoot! (1956) Locking Horns (and Joe Newman , 1957) Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958) Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn, Phil Woods , 1959) Down Home (1960) Two Jims and Zoot /Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall , 1964) Inter-Action (and Sonny Stitt , 1965) Waiting Game (1966) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967) Nirvana (and Bucky Pizzarelli , Buddy Rich , 1974) Basie & Zoot (and Count Basie , 1975) The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , 1975) Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and Joe Pass , Oscar Peterson , 1975) Soprano Sax (1976) Hawthorne Nights (1976) If I'm Lucky (and Jimmy Rowles , 1977) For Lady Day (1978) Warm Tenor (and Jimmy Rowles , 1979) The Sweetest Sounds (and Rune Gustafsson , 1979) Just Friends (and Harry Edison , 1980) Art 'n' Zoot (and Art Pepper , 1981) Recordings withAl Cohn From A to...Z (1956) The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956) Tenor Conclave (and Hank Mobley , John Coltrane , 1957) The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and Herbie Steward , Serge Chaloff , 1957) Al and Zoot (1957) Blues and Haikus (Jack Kerouac , 1959) SteveIreneo! (and Irene Kral , Steve Allen , 1959) Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960) You 'n' Me (1960) Either Way (1961) Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962) Body and Soul (1973) Motoring Along (1974) WithQuincy Jones WithGerry Mulligan With others Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963) Encounter! (Pepper Adams , 1968) Trigger Happy! /East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert /Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott , 1956) Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54) Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) The Bosses (Count Basie and "Big Joe" Turner , 1973) Louis Bellson Quintet (1954) The Genius of Ray Charles (1959) Jazz Is Universal (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band , 1961) Chris Connor (1956) The Book Cooks (Booker Ervin , 1960) Loose Blues (Bill Evans , 1962) The Aztec Suite (Art Farmer , 1959) South American Cookin' (Curtis Fuller , 1961) Creole Cookin' (Bobby Hackett , 1967) The Hawk in Hi Fi (Coleman Hawkins , 1956) Portraits on Standards (Stan Kenton , 1953) The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953) The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975) Profiles (Gary McFarland , 1966) Something to Swing About (Carmen McRae , 1959) Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973) Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956) The Complete Town Hall Concert (Charles Mingus , 1962) Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose , 1954) Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oliver Nelson , 1966) The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966) Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967) All the Sad Young Men (Anita O'Day , 1962) Transition (Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton , 1974) Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954) Samba Para Dos (Lalo Schifrin , Bob Brookmeyer, 1963) Moonlight in Vermont (Johnny Smith , 1952) Phoebe Snow (1974) Broadway Soul (Sonny Stitt , 1965) Vaughan and Violins (Sarah Vaughan , 1958) The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953) At Newport '63 (Joe Williams , 1963)