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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Tijekom posljednjih 14 dana:

523 snimki
321 stanice
44 država

Count Basie top pjesme

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

Count Basie citati

I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound. A sound I'd never heard before or since. To be honest with you, I didn't much like it at first.