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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Au cours des 14 derniers jours:

571 musiques
312 stations
42 pays

Top chansons des Count Basie

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