One O'Clock Jump (album) the album compared unfavorably to Basie and Williams' previous records "April In Paris", and "The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards", but praised "From Coast to Coast" and "One O'Clock Jump", and Williams' performance on "Stop, Pretty Baby, Stop". Bonus Tracks; Issued on the Verve 1999 CD re-issue, Verve 559 806-2 Production One O'Clock Jump (album) One O'Clock Jump is a 1957 album by the Count Basie Orchestra, arranged by Ernie Wilkins and featuring vocalist Joe Williams on seven of the ten tracks. Ella Fitzgerald is featured in duet with Williams on the first track, "Too Close for
Rock Around the Clock sax solo coming first. In a 2005 retrospective on his uncle Milt Gabler's work ("The Milt Gabler Story"), Billy Crystal identifies Haley's 1954 recording of "Rock Around the Clock" as the single most important song Gabler ever produced. Gabler had previously been responsible for the highly successful string of R&B and jump blues recordings by Louis Jordan in the late 1940s, which were characterised by their strong beat, clearly enunciated lyrics and high production values, all features which Gabler sought to repeat in Haley's recordings. Also significantly, "Rock Around The Clock" was recorded in the very same month that Atlantic