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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566 tracks
356 stations
43 countries

Count Basie top songs

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	Li'l Darlin'
7	Fly Me to the Moon
8	Basie's
9	Honeysuckle Rose
10	Splanky
11	Jive At Five
12	Boogie Woogie
13	Basie Boogie
14	Down for Double
15	Taxi War Dance
16	Corner Pocket
17	Swingin' the Blues
18	Moten Swing
19	Every Tub
20	Tea For Two
21	Shorty George
22	I Can't Stop Loving You
23	Satin Doll
24	One O'Clock Boogie
25	Texas Shuffle