Back with Basie (subtitled More Hit Performances of the '60s) is an album released by pianist, composer and bandleader Count Basie featuring tracks recorded...
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Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935...
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William James "Count" Basie (/ˈbeɪsi/; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he...
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Sinatra at the Sands (redirect from At the Sands with Count Basie)
Sinatra at the Sands is a live album by Frank Sinatra accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra, and conducted and arranged by Quincy Jones, recorded...
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Frank Wess (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
extensive solo work; however, he was also remembered for his time playing with Count Basie's band during the early 1950s into the early 1960s. Critic Scott Yanow...
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Thad Jones (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
association with the U.S. Military School of Music and working with area bands in Des Moines and Oklahoma City, Jones became a member of the Count Basie Orchestra...
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Lalo Schifrin discography (category Articles with short description)
Jazz (Aleph) 1963 Samba Para Dos with Bob Brookmeyer (Verve) 1963 Between Broadway & Hollywood (MGM) 1964 Explorations with Louis Bellson (Roulette) 1964...
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Roulette Records (category Articles with short description)
as well as releasing albums by Pearl Bailey, Dinah Washington and Count Basie. During the early 1960s, Roulette issued recordings connected to the twist...
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This was the first recording that Sinatra made with the Count Basie Orchestra. In 1964, Sinatra and Basie would make a final studio recording, It Might...
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Louie Bellson (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
(Concord Jazz) With Count Basie Back with Basie (Roulette, 1962) Basie in Sweden (Roulette, 1962) Pop Goes the Basie (Reprise, 1965) Basie's in the Bag (Brunswick...
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Freddie Green (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
1987) was an American swing jazz guitarist who played rhythm guitar with the Count Basie Orchestra for almost fifty years. Green was born in Charleston, South...
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Art Davis (category Articles with short description)
Smith With Joe Albany Bird Lives! (Interplay, 1979) With Gene Ammons Up Tight! (Prestige, 1961) Boss Soul! (Prestige, 1961) With Count Basie Back with Basie...
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Sonny Payne (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
known for his work with Count Basie and Harry James. Payne's father was Wild Bill Davis's drummer Chris Columbus. After early study with Vic Berton, in 1944...
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A Very Swingin' Basie Christmas! is a 2015 Christmas album by the Count Basie Orchestra, directed by Scotty Barnhart, and released by Concord Records...
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Eddie Jones (jazz musician) (category Articles with short description)
ensembles. With Dorothy Ashby The Jazz Harpist (Regent, 1957) With Count Basie Dance Session (Clef, 1953) Dance Session Album #2 (Clef, 1954) Basie (Clef,...
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Joe Newman (trumpeter) (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
trumpeter, composer, and educator, best known as a musician who worked with Count Basie during two periods. Newman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Dwight...
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Basie on the Beatles is an album by pianist and bandleader Count Basie featuring performances recorded in late 1969 and released on the short-lived Happy...
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Basie in Sweden (subtitled Recorded Live in Concert featuring Louis Bellson on Drums) is a live album by pianist, composer and bandleader Count Basie...
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Benny Powell (category Articles with short description)
The Count Basie Story (Roulette, 1960) Kansas City Suite (Roulette, 1960) The Legend (Roulette, 1961) Back with Basie (Roulette, 1962) Basie in Sweden...
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Frank Foster (jazz musician) (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
collaborated frequently with Count Basie and worked as a bandleader from the early 1950s. In 1998, Howard University awarded Frank Foster with the Benny Golson...
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Lester Young (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
Basie's orchestra, Young was one of the most influential players on his instrument. In contrast to many of his hard-driving peers, Young played with a...
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Come Back, Charleston Blue is a 1972 American crime comedy film starring Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques, loosely based on Chester Himes' novel...
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Henry Coker (category Articles with short description)
Basie! (Reprise, 1963) Back with Basie (Roulette, 1964) The Count Basie Story (Roulette, 1969) Li'l Ol' Groovemaker... Basie! (Verve, 1963) Big Band...
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Al Aarons (category Articles with short description)
(LOSA, 1996?) With Gene Ammons Free Again (Prestige, 1971) With Count Basie The Legend (Roulette, 1961) Back with Basie (Roulette, 1962) Basie in Sweden (Roulette...
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Count Basie at Newport is a live album by jazz musician Count Basie and his orchestra. It was originally issued as Verve MGV 8243 and included only the...
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Paul McCartney (redirect from Back in the World (tour))
as a solo artist with eighteen. "Hey Jude" was covered by several prominent artists, including Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, Count Basie and Wilson Pickett...
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Neal Hefti (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
Now concentrating on writing music only, he began an association with Count Basie in 1950. Hefti occasionally led his own bands. Neal Paul Hefti was...
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Fly Me to the Moon (category All articles with dead external links)
Count Basie. The music for this album was arranged by Quincy Jones, who had worked with Count Basie a year earlier on the album This Time by Basie, which...
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Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan is a 1961 album by the American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra, with arrangements by Frank...
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Harry Edison (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
with Down Beat's Don Freeman, Edison explained the origin of his nickname: Well, this happened one day in March back in '37. All of us in the Basie band...
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