#9 The Atomic Mr. Basie by Count Basie

Right, this is one of the albums that will make me glad to have firmly left the 1950s. Unfortunately for me the sixties are still about a month away so I need to stick around for a while and sample the jazz music of this decade.

As you probably guessed from my abysmal rating of Ellington at Newport 1956 jazz music really isn’t my forte. Ok that isn’t exactly true. INSTRUMENTAL jazz music is not my forte. While I know I should be able to kick back and appreciate the musical arrangements and skilled piano playing, which believe me is good, but I just need the vocals. As such I found The Atomic Mr. Basie irremissibly dull.

There really isn’t much to say about this to be honest. Maybe tomorrow will reap better rewards… oh, maybe not. Meh, I’ll keep an open mind

3.5/10

Fab Four:
…yea I dunno. Nothing really jumps out at me