It Might as Well Be Swing is a 1964 studio album by Frank Sinatra, accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra. It was Sinatra's first studio recording arranged by Quincy Jones.

The recording of "Fly Me to the Moon" which appears on this album has become one of Sinatra's most popular.

It Might as Well Be Swing is a reference to the title of the well known jazz standard "It Might as Well Be Spring".

The initia lRecord World review stated that "Frank and Count Basie make a stunning combination", continuing "and along with Quincy Jones arrangements, they can't be bettered. The sound is brassy and upbeat." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbmALZV9DBA&list=PLph8hEsdeSe09HJhCFf58pTIrQPQniViW

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It Might as Well Be Swing is a 1964 studio album by Frank Sinatra, accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra. It was Sinatra's first studio recording arranged by Quincy Jones.

The recording of "Fly Me to the Moon" which appears on this album has become one of Sinatra's most popular.

It Might as Well Be Swing is a reference to the title of the well known jazz standard "It Might as Well Be Spring".

The initia lRecord World review stated that "Frank and Count Basie make a stunning combination", continuing "and along with Quincy Jones arrangements, they can't be bettered. The sound is brassy and upbeat." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbmALZV9DBA&list=PLph8hEsdeSe09HJhCFf58pTIrQPQniViW

#FrankSinatra #CountBasie #QuincyJones #BigBand #Jazz #Swing #VocalJazz #Music

Ella and Basie! is a 1963 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra, with arrangements by Quincy Jones.

Fitzgerald and the Basie band had recorded together once before, on the 1957 album One O'Clock Jump.

This album is revered alongside Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (1961), Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960), Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959), and Ella in Hollywood (1961) as one of Ella's greatest recordings. The album was rated the 175th best album of the 1960s by Pitchfork. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0phdQAa-Sg&list=OLAK5uy_mrfCJ_RvgkKc94_s4MKiZstO_GQ1pukwI

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