April in Paris (album) April in Paris (album) April in Paris is an album by pianist/bandleader Count Basie and His Orchestra, his first released on the Verve label, recorded in 1955 and 1956. AllMusic awarded the album 5 stars calling it "one of those rare albums that makes its mark as an almost instant classic in the jazz pantheon" and noting ""April in Paris" proved Count Basie's ability to grow through modern jazz changes while keeping the traditional jazz orchestra vital and alive". The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide said it was "a commercial high point for this outfit". The Penguin Guide to Jazz
Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra side" of George Gershwin's "An American in Paris". Later in 1977, "Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra" was re-released on vinyl by Deutsche Grammophon, on their Polydor Records label, backed by "Street Music: A Blues Concerto". In 2002, "Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra" was released on CD, combined with "Street Music" and "An American in Paris". On Classical Music Sentinel in 2011, Jean-Yves Duperron wrote, "This great collaborative recording from the 1970s deserves the term of Definitive Recording simply for being what it is. A very successful coming together of different genres of music that