He said don’t have too many pregnant 19ths in there. Keep it simple…..Basie was as much as an arranger as any of the arrangers who actually wrote down the notes and brought in the charts. Because once he listened to it and discovered what was wrong with it – what was too busy and what needed to be removed or even what needed to be added.
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The late saxophonist Frank Foster worked as a staff arranger for Count Basie's "New Testament" band, in the early nineteen fifties. He learned his craft from writers like Neal Hefti and even from his boss-though the bandleader never wrote down his notes.
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