One O'Clock Jump (album) 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 Comfort", arranged by Edgar Sampson. "One O'Clock Jump", "Jamboree" and "From Coast to Coast" are instrumentals by the Count Basie Orchestra. The 1999 reissue included two additional versions of "One O'Clock Jump" as well as an alternate take of "Too Close for Comfort" sung by Williams without Fitzgerald. Bruce Eder, writing on Allmusic said
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