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Count Basie disbanded his big band in the 1940s at a time when large ensembles became uneconomic, but later he was to reform and with many of the players who had been with him in the 1930s, and in 1963 toured Europe. In Berlin the concert was recorded by Radio WDR and have now been released on CD. In 1969 Sarah Vaughan was also in Berlin at a time when she had been absent from the recording studio for a time, and her concert was also recorded for radio. This too is now on release.