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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2	Basie
3	Jumpin' At The Woodside
4	April in Paris
5	Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
6	Li'l Darlin'
7	Corner Pocket
8	Fly Me to the Moon
9	Jive At Five
10	The Kid from Red Bank
11	Basie's
12	Honeysuckle Rose
13	Basie Boogie
14	Splanky
15	Every Tub
16	Moten Swing
17	Every Day I Have the Blues
18	Taxi War Dance
19	Lester Leaps In
20	Boogie Woogie
21	Swingin' the Blues
22	One O'Clock Boogie
23	Michelle
24	Yesterday
25	Down for Double

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I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.