The year is 1966 and Sinatra was 50 and his voice was at its peak singing or should I say swingin' with the Count Basie Band... this is a great live performance and if you like Sinatra you will love it !!!...here's some quotes from Sinatra himself about that night when the recording machines were switched on !!!
Frank Sinatra say's about playing with Basie at the Sands in January 1966
“The Basie orchestra was a like juggernaut. When they came at you, after the downbeat and the orchestra started to play, you knew that you had to be part of that or you got lost.We did things that were really jumping I tried to stay in the realm of what the orchestra was playing. I hang back just a little bit, in a sense.”
“You cannot swing if a band doesn’t settle into the proper tempo. I don’t care how good you are, it just doesn’t come out right.”
“This is the greatest orchestra at any time in the history of the world.”
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