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{{Infobox Album |album
|Name name = Strike Up the Band
|Type type = studio
|Artist artist = [[Tony Bennett]] and the [[Count Basie Orchestra]]
|Cover cover = Basie_Swings_Bennett_Sings2.jpg
| alt =
|Released released = May 1959<ref>[https://books.google.itcom/books?id=ciEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA95&dq=billboard+may+1959&hl=it&sa=X&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBGoVChMIs-Le8JjWxwIVSe5yCh0YcQiU#v=onepage&q=bennett%20basie+basie&fpg=falsePA95 ''Billboard'' May 4, 1959]</ref>
|Recorded = January 3 & 5, 1959<br><small>[[Capitol Studios]], [[New York City]]▼
|Genre recorded = January 3 =& 5, [[Vocal1959 jazz]]
|Length venue = 27:01=
▲|Recorded studio = January 3 & 5,= 1959<br><small>[[Capitol Studios|Capitol]], ([[New York City|New York]])
|Label = [[Roulette Records|Roulette]]<br><small>SR-25072<br>SR-25231▼
|Producer genre = [[Vocal jazz]]
| length = 27:01
| Chronology = [[Tony Bennett]]▼
▲|Label label = [[Roulette Records|Roulette]]<br><small>SR-25072<br>SR-25231</small>
|Last album = '' [[Long Ago and Far Away (Tony Bennett album)|Long Ago and Far Away]] ''<br />(1958)
| producer = [[Teddy Reig]]
|This album = '''''Strike Up the Band'''''<br />(1959)
▲| Chronologychronology = [[Tony Bennett]]
|Next album = '' [[In Person!]] ''<br />(1959)
| Next albumprev_title = ''[[In Person!]]''<br />(1959)▼
| Misc = {{Extra chronology▼
| prev_year = 1959
| Artist = [[Count Basie Orchestra]]▼
| next_title = [[Hometown, My Town]]
| Type = album▼
| next_year = 1959
| Last album = ''[[Basie and Eckstine, Inc.]]''<br />(1958)
▲| Misc misc = {{Extra chronology
| This album = '''''Strike Up the Band'''''<br />(1959)
▲ | Artistartist = [[Count Basie Orchestra]]
▲| Next album = ''[[In Person!]]''<br />(1959)
▲ | Typetype = album
| prev_title = [[In Person!]]
| prev_year = 1959
| title = Strike Up the Band
| year = 1959
| next_title = [[Breakfast Dance and Barbecue]]
| next_year = 1959
}}
{{Extra album cover
|Upper captionheader = Alternative cover
|Type type = Album
|Cover cover = Basie_Swings_Bennett_Sings.jpg
| border =
|Lower caption = '''Basie Swings, Bennett Sings (SR-25072)'''▼
| alt =
}}▼
▲ |Lower caption = '''Basie Swings, Bennett Sings (SR-25072)'''
▲ }}
}}
 
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = ''[[Allmusic]]''
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{AllmusicAllMusic|class=album|id=r441002}}</ref>
}}
 
'''''Strike Up the Band''''' is a 1959 studio album by [[Tony Bennett]] with the [[Count Basie Orchestra]]. The album was released at first with the title '''''Basie Swings, Bennett Sings''''' as SR-25072, featuring a different cover and track order.
 
William Ruhlmann of Allmusic wrote "The band raves through tunes like "With Plenty Ofof Money Andand You," and Bennett matches them, drawing strength from the bravura arrangements, while band and singer achieve a knowing tenderness on "Growing Pains.""<ref>{{AllmusicAllMusic|class=album|id=r161004|label=Bennett & Basie Strike Up the Band}}</ref>
 
Bennett and Basie recorded two albums together in 1959. The other one, ''[[In Person!]]'', was released by Bennett's record label, [[Columbia Records|Columbia]], while this album was released by Roulette, Basie's label.
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==Personnel==
*[[Tony Bennett]] -– vocals
*[[Ralph Sharon]] -– piano and arranger
'''The [[Count Basie Orchestra]]:'''
*Count Basie -– piano
*[[Thad Jones]], [[Snooky Young]], [[Wendell Culley]] & [[Joe Newman (trumpeter)|Joe Newman]] -– trumpet
*[[Benny Powell]], [[Henry Coker]] & [[Al Grey]] -– trombone
*[[Marshal Royal]] & [[Frank Wess]] -– alto saxophone
*[[Frank Foster (jazz musician)|Frank Foster]] & [[Billy Mitchell (jazz musiciansaxophonist)|Billy Mitchell]] -– tenor saxophone
*[[Charlie Fowlkes]] -– baritone saxophone
*[[Freddie Green]] -– guitar
*[[Eddie Jones (jazz musician)|Eddie Jones]] -– bass
*[[Sonny Payne]] -– drums
 
==References==
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{{Count Basie Orchestra}}
{{Tony Bennett}}
 
{{Authority control}}
 
[[Category:1959 albums]]
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[[Category:Roulette Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums conducted by Count Basie]]
[[Category:albumsAlbums arranged by Ralph Sharon]]
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