Count Basie

United States
August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984

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William James "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. His mother taught him to play the piano and he started performing in his teens. Dropping out of school, he learned to operate lights for vaudeville and to improvise accompaniment for silent films at a local movie theater in his home town of Red Bank, New Jersey. By age 16, he increasingly played jazz piano at parties, resorts and other venues. In 1924, he went to Harlem, where his performing career expanded; he toured with groups to the major jazz cities of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. In 1929 he joined Bennie Moten's band in Kansas City, and played with them until Moten's death in 1935.

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Le migliori canzoni dei Count Basie

1	One O'Clock Jump
2	Basie
3	April in Paris
4	Jumpin' At The Woodside
5	Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
6	Fly Me to the Moon
7	Li'l Darlin'
8	Splanky
9	Basie Boogie
10	Basie's
11	Honeysuckle Rose
12	Jive At Five
13	One O'Clock Boogie
14	Corner Pocket
15	Yesterday
16	Oh! Lady Be Good
17	Moten Swing
18	Lester Leaps In
19	Boogie Woogie
20	Basie
21	Tea For Two
22	Every Tub
23	The Kid from Red Bank
24	Basie
25	Shiny Stockings

Citazioni di Count Basie

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'