Continuing Frank Sinatra's centennial year celebration, Universal Music Enterprises presents Frank Sinatra, Count Basie in Sinatra-Basie : An Historic Musical First. The album is one of six more classic Sinatra albums on audiophile-quality 180 gram vinyl LP with faithfully replicated album art.

The 1962 Billboard Top 5 Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First, featuring Count Basie and his orchestra joins the May 6 release of the Top 10 1966 double album Sinatra At The Sands. Conducted and arranged by Quincy Jones, Sinatra's first commercially released concert album celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

"The long-awaited first collaboration between two icons, Count Basie and Frank Sinatra, did something unique for the reputations of both. For Basie, the Sinatra connection inaugurated a period in the '60s where his band was more popular and better-known than it ever was, even in the big-band era. For Sinatra, Basie meant liberation, producing perhaps the loosest, rhythmically free singing of his career. Propelled by the irresistible drums of Sonny Payne, Sinatra careens up to and around the tunes, reacting jauntily to the beat and encouraging Payne to swing even harder, which was exactly the way to interact with the Basie rhythm machine - using his exquisite timing flawlessly". - AllMusic