Fun Time
Live album by Count Basie
Released	1975
Recorded	July 19, 1975
Venue	Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland
Genre	Jazz
Length	42:24
Label	Pablo
Producer	Norman Granz
Count Basie chronology
Basie & Zoot (1975) Fun Time (1975) Count Basie Jam Session at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 (1975)

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Allmusic	[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[2]

Fun Time is a 1975 live album by Count Basie and his orchestra, recorded at the 1975 Montreux Jazz Festival. ^[3]

Track listing

1. "Fun Time" ( Sammy Nestico) – 3:28
2. "Why Not?" (Hefti) – 3:29
3. "Lil' Darlin" (Hefti) – 5:32
4. " In a Mellow Tone" ( Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 5:39
5. " Body and Soul" ( Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 6:33
6. "Good Times Blues" ( Ernie Wilkins) – 5:44
7. "I Hate You Baby" (Bill Caffey, Billy Grey, Heard) – 4:44
8. "Lonesome Blues" (Caffey) – 1:50
9. "Whirley Bird" (Hefti) – 9:54
10. " One O'Clock Jump" ( Count Basie) – 1:59

Personnel

The Count Basie Orchestra

• Count Basie – piano
• Sonny Cohn – trumpet
• Frank Szabo
• Pete Minger
• Dave Stahl
• Bobby Mitchell
• Bill Hughes – trombone
• Curtis Fuller
• Mel Wanzo – trombone
• Al Grey
• Bobby Plater – alto saxophone
• Danny Turner
• Eric Dixon – tenor saxophone
• Jimmy Forrest
• Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone
• Freddie Green – guitar
• John Duke – double bass
• Butch Miles – drums
• Bill Caffey – Vocals

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