[Lyric] Take the A Train The Count Departs Rehearsal Alternate Takes (Count Basie & Duke Ellington)

[Intro]
- Everybody quiet out there please
- What happened?
- Count Basie, Count Basie
- Hey, Count Basie
- Let's go
- Here we go, take two
- Well now I'm trying to get Strayhorn to play a little something. Alright, ready? Thirty-six bars of piano
- Thirty-six bars of piano
- What? How many?
- You ready, Teo?
- We're rollin'
- Two-bar introduction
- Thirty-six bars of piano

[Instrumental]

[Interlude]
- This is a take
- Take three
[Instrumental]