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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The 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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Kevin Smith (redirect from Kevin Smith's Count Basie Extravaganza)
London. The third and fourth were filmed in Red Bank, New Jersey at the Count Basie Theater on Smith's 37th and 40th birthdays, respectively. The fifth was...
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Atomic Mr. Basie (originally called Basie, also known as E=MC2 and reissued in 1994 as The Complete Atomic Basie) is a 1958 album by Count Basie, featuring...
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349000°N 74.0701000°W / 40.349000; -74.0701000 The Count Basie Center for the Arts, originally Count Basie Theatre, is a landmarked performing arts center...
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April in Paris (song) (section Count Basie version)
and Basie directs the band to play the shout chorus "one more time" and then "one more once." A revised arrangement of the song, played by the Count Basie...
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Basie & Zoot is a studio album by the jazz pianist Count Basie and the saxophonist Zoot Sims, released in 1976 by Pablo Records. It was recorded on April...
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In late 1937, Holiday had a brief stint as a big-band vocalist with Count Basie. The traveling conditions of the band were often poor; they performed...
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Lester Young (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
and occasional clarinetist. Coming to prominence while a member of Count Basie's orchestra, Young was one of the most influential players on his instrument...
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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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Buddy Rich (section With Count Basie)
working with acts such as Bunny Berigan, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, and Harry James. From 1942 to 1944, Rich served in the U.S. Marines...
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composer and bandleader Count Basie and was an advocate for civil rights and for children with disabilities. Catherine Basie (née Morgan) was born on...
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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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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 born...
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releasing a string of successful albums. He collaborated with Count Basie on Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First (1962) and It Might as Well Be Swing...
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bands, such as the Count Basie Orchestra and the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, and with small combos. He sang in two films with the Basie orchestra and sometimes...
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Helen Humes (section The Count Basie Orchestra)
1938, Hammond persuaded Humes to join Count Basie's Orchestra, where she stayed for four years. In the Count Basie Orchestra, Humes sang ballads and popular...
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Thad Jones (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
bands in Des Moines and Oklahoma City, Jones became a member of the Count Basie Orchestra in May 1954. He was featured as a soloist on such well-known...
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including Count Basie Theatre, named for Count Basie, who was born in Red Bank, Basie Center Cinemas, and the Two River Theater. The Count Basie Theatre...
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Bandleader Count Basie has a cameo as himself, appearing with his orchestra. The film is full of deliberate anachronisms, from the Count Basie Orchestra...
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(Inakustik) 2007 Reunion Blues (Salt Peanuts) 2008 Oscar Peterson & Count Basie: Together in Concert 1974 (Impro-Jazz Spain) 2008 Jazz Icons: Oscar Peterson...
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famous accomplishments were playing with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and the Count Basie Orchestra. His 1975 recording Plenty Good Eaton is considered a classic...
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Freddie Green (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
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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by 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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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 as Well...
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Jo Jones (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
drummer. A band leader and pioneer in jazz percussion, Jones anchored the Count Basie Orchestra rhythm section from 1934 to 1948. He was sometimes known as...
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Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie is a 1956 album by Oscar Peterson, of music associated with Count Basie. "Lester Leaps In" (Lester Young) – 3:58 "Easy...
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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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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (category Count Basie Orchestra members)
Williams, Lucky Millinder, Andy Kirk, Eddie Bonnemère, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie, as well as leading his own bands and making many recordings as a leader...
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produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. on September 23, 1945, to a crowd of 15,000. Count Basie, the Honeydrippers, The Peters Sisters, Slim and Bam and Valaida Snow...
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