Composed and arranged by Bill Holman
Fantastic 1976 Bill Holman composition and arrangement from the 1976 Count Basie album I Told You So.
Count Basie (p); Sonny Cohn, Pete Minger, Bobby Mitchell, John Thomas, Jack Feierman (tpt); Al Grey, Curtis Fuller, Bill Hughes, Mel Wanzo (tbn); Jimmy Forrest, Eric Dixson, Danny Turner, Bobby Plator, Charlie Fowlkes (sax); John Duke (b); Freddie Green (gtr); Butch Miles (d); Bill Holman (comp/arr)
In his JazzWax blog, Marc Myers has an excellent interview with Bill Holman on the making of this little-known album, the only one he arranged for the Count Basie band.
Incidentally, the name of the album is I Told You So but the name of the composition is Told You So—according to Holman, it was a compromise on a titling disagreement he had with producer Norman Granz. Granz got to name the album; Holman named the tune.
