The Count Basie Orchestra / Scotty Barnhart - A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas! - New LP Record 2016 Concord Jazz Vinyl - Holiday / Jazz

Coinciding with celebrating its 80th anniversary, the legendary Count Basie Orchestra made music history with the November 6, 2015 release of A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas! on Concord Jazz. The first full-length, yuletide album in the expansive Basie discography, the album boasted classic holiday songs, rendered in quintessential Basie style, under the masterful direction of longtime Basie trumpeter Scotty Barnhart and produced by seven-time Grammy winner and former Basie drummer Gregg Field.