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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Moten Swing

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Count Basie top pesmi

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	Fly Me to the Moon
7	Li'l Darlin'
8	Basie's
9	Splanky
10	Moten Swing
11	Jive At Five
12	Corner Pocket
13	Honeysuckle Rose
14	Taxi War Dance
15	The Kid from Red Bank
16	Basie Boogie
17	Lester Leaps In
18	Every Day I Have the Blues
19	Boogie Woogie
20	Oh! Lady Be Good
21	Good Morning Blues
22	Swingin' the Blues
23	Topsy
24	One O'Clock Boogie
25	Every Tub

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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.