Dance Session
# Dance Session

Dance Session is an album by pianist/bandleader Count Basie recorded in 1953 and became Basie's first 12-inch LP when it was originally released on the Clef label. Selections from this album were also released on the 1956 Clef LPs Basie Roars Again and King of Swing.

## Track listing

* "Straight Life" (Johnny Mandel) - 4:33
* "Basie Goes Wess" (Frank Wess) - 3:52
* "Softly, With Feeling" (Neal Hefti) - 3:05
* "Peace Pipe" (Ernie Wilkins) - 2:28
* "Blues Go Away!" (Wilkins) - 3:19
* "Cherry Point" (Hefti) - 3:19
* "Bubbles" (Hefti) - 4:05
* "Right On" (Freddie Green) - 2:39
* "The Blues Done Come Back" (Wilkins) - 3:37
* "Plymouth Rock" (Hefti) - 3:42

Recorded in Los Angeles, CA on August 13 (tracks 5 & 10) and at Fine Sound Studios in New York City on December 12 (tracks 1-4 & 6–9), 1953

## Personnel

* Count Basie - piano, organ
* Paul Campbell (tracks 5 & 10), Wendell Culley, Reunald Jones, Joe Newman, Joe Wilder (tracks 1-4 & 6–9) - trumpet
* Johnny Mandel - bass trumpet, arranger (tracks 5 & 10)
* Henderson Chambers (tracks 1-4 & 6–9), Henry Coker, Benny Powell - trombone
* Marshall Royal - alto saxophone, clarinet
* Ernie Wilkins - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, arranger
* Frank Wess - tenor saxophone, arranger
* Frank Foster - tenor saxophone
* Charlie Fowlkes - baritone saxophone
* Freddie Green - guitar, arranger
* Eddie Jones- bass
* Gus Johnson - drums
* Neal Hefti - arranger
