Count Basie

Count Basie

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  1. Count Basie Boogie Woogie 1942
  2. Count Basie Boogie Woogie Type Piece
  3. Count Basie Broadway
  4. Count Basie Bugle Blues 1942
  5. Count Basie Damfino Name 1945
  6. Count Basie Dukes Orch Take The A Train
  7. Count Basie Ella Fitzgerald Dream A Little Dream Of Me
  8. Count Basie George Benson Walkin My Baby Back Home
  9. Count Basie Helen Humes And The Angels Sing
  10. Count Basie Helen Humes Dark Rapture
  11. Count Basie Helen Humes If I Could Be With You One Hour
  12. Count Basie Helen Humes My Heart Belongs To Daddy
  13. Count Basie Helen Humes Sing For Your Supper
  14. Count Basie I Found A New Baby 1945
  15. Count Basie Im Crazy bout My Baby
  16. Count Basie Jimmy Rushing Harvard Blues 1945
  17. Count Basie Jimmy Rushing Money Is Honey
  18. Count Basie Jimmy Rushing Rusty Dusty Blues
  19. Count Basie Jimmy Rushing Slender Tender And Tall 1945
  20. Count Basie Jumpin At The Woodside 1938
  21. Count Basie Lady Be Good
  22. Count Basie Lester Young Sarah Vaughn Time After Time
  23. Count Basie One O Clock Jump 1945
  24. Count Basie Orch Basie Boogie 1942
  25. Count Basie Orch Dance Of The Gremlin 1943
  26. Count Basie Orch Dinah Shore How Can I Be Glad About Him Blues 1942
  27. Count Basie Orch Helen Humes Blame It On My Last Affair
  28. Count Basie Orch Helen Humes I Cried For You
  29. Count Basie Satin Doll
  30. Count Basie Sent For You Yesterday And Here You Come Today 1938
  31. Count Basie Song Of The Islands 1939
  32. Count Basie Sugar Blues 1942
  33. Count Basie Swinging The Blues_vbr
  34. Count Basie The Basie Boogie 1942
  35. Count Basie The Woodside 1945
  36. Count Basie Thelma Carpenter My Ideal 1945
  37. Count Basie Thelma Carpenter Until You Hear From Me 1945
  38. Count Basie Topsy 1939
  39. Count Basie Twelth Street Rag
  40. Count Basies Kansas City Seven Lester Leaps In1939

 

 

William ‘Count’ Basie was born on August 21, 1904 in Red Bank, New Jersey, and died on April 26, 1984. Never a scholar, he dropped out of high school to work in the local theater operating the spotlights for vaudeville shows. His musical interests were drums and piano, but there was already a great drummer in Red Bank (Sonny Greer, who played with Duke Ellington's band for many years), he focused instead on piano. One day the pianist for a show didn't show up, and he filled in, improvising by ear all of the music that was needed. He then began playing piano for silent movies. Sometime around 1924 he mmoved to Harlem near the Alhambra Theater, which was a center for the new ‘Jazz’ sound, and soon was playing with several Jazz acts, and also accompanied some vaudeville and blues acts. He later led a band in Kansas City and then Chigago with a new band called ‘Count Basie and his Barons of Rhythm.’ His fame continued to grow and his unique style of rhythm made him popular in New York during the Swing years, and he played with several versions of his band across America and Europe until the mid 1970's.

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