title: Basle, 1969
text: # Basle, 1969
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Allmusic (link) | |
  | Jack Bowers (allaboutjazz.com) | Favorable |
  | The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |
  
  Basle, 1969 (also released as Live on Tour Switzerland) is a big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra in Basle (Basel), Switzerland for a Swiss radio broadcast. It was not released until 1996 – as Volume 4 of TCB Music's "Swiss Radio Days" series.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * "Second Race" – 10:53
  * "Don't Ever Leave Me" – 4:29
  * "The Waltz You Swang For Me" – 9:23
  * "A- That's Freedom" (Hank Jones) – 11:09
  * "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) – 4:55
  * "Don't Get Sassy" – 11:48
  * "Bible Story" (Roland Hanna) – 6:47
  * "Groove Merchant" (Jerome Richardson) – 8:22
  
  All songs arranged by Thad Jones. All songs composed by Jones except as noted.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Thad Jones – flugelhorn
  * Mel Lewis – drums
  * Roland Hanna – piano
  * Richard Davis – bass
  * Jerome Richardson – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
  * Jerry Dodgion – alto saxophone
  * Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone
  * Eddie Daniels – tenor saxophone
  * Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone
  * Snooky Young – trumpet
  * Richard Williams – trumpet
  * Danny Moore – trumpet
  * Al Porcino – trumpet
  * Jimmy Knepper – trombone
  * Ashley Fannell – trombone
  * Eddie Bert – trombone
  * Cliff Heather – trombone
  