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Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra
1987 live album by Diane Schuur
Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra is a 1987 live album by Diane Schuur, accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra, arranged by Frank Foster.[2]
Three years after Count Basie's death, the Count Basie Orchestra is featured here as a ghost band, led by Frank Foster.[3] This was also the last performance of Freddie Green, who died a week later.[4]
At the Grammy Awards of 1988, for her performance on Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra, Schuur won her second consecutive Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female.[5]