Have a Nice Day (Count Basie album)

Have a Nice Day (Count Basie album)

Infobox Album
Name = Have a Nice Day
Type = studio
Artist = Count Basie and Orchestra


Released = 1971
Recorded = July-August 1971
Genre = Swing
Big band music
Length =
Label = Daybreak Records
Producer = Tom Mack
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"Have a Nice Day" is a LP album recorded at Western Studios, Hollywood California in July-August 1971 and released in 1971, featuring Count Basie and orchestra. All the titles were composed by Sammy Nestico as composer-arranger. Studio production was by Tom Mack, sound engineer was Andy Richardson and the tape editor was Ben Jordan. The executive producer was Sonny Burke.

The disc was issued on the Daybreak records label and marketed by Polydor. This was Basie's debut for Daybreak. Nestico, a graduate of Duquesne University who worked for the US airforce band in Washington for 12 years after World War II, had at this time been writing for Basie for four years.

Track listing

# Have A Nice Day (3:14)
# The Plunger (3:42)
# Jamie (3:22)
# It's About Time (3:03)
# This Way (2:28)
# Scott's Place (3:53)
# Doin' Basie's Thing (2:48)
# The Spirit Is Willing (3:00)
# Small Talk (3:28)
# You 'N Me (2:55)
# Feelin' Free (2:40)

Personnel

* Al Grey (trombone)
* Bill Hughes (trombone)
* Grover Mitchell (trombone)
* Melvin Wanzo (trombone)
* John Watson, senr. (trombone)
* Paul Cohen (trumpet)
* George 'Sonny' Cohn (trumpet)
* George Minger (trumpet)
* Waymon Reed (trumpet)
* Bobby 'Jersey Bounce' Plater (sax)
* Eric Dixon (sax)
* Curtis Peagler (sax)
* J. C. Williams (sax)
* Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis (sax)
* Freddie Green (guitar)
* Norman 'Dewey' Keenan (bass)
* Harold Jones (drums)
* Count William Basie (piano)


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