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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Jumpin' at the Woodside

EBS Radio Jazz

Flight of the Foo Birds (1994 Remaster)

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Moten Swing

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All My Loving

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Count Basie top songs

1	One O'Clock Jump
2	April in Paris
3	Basie
4	Jumpin' At The Woodside
5	Li'l Darlin'
6	Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
7	Basie's
8	Honeysuckle Rose
9	Oh! Lady Be Good
10	Jive At Five
11	Basie Boogie
12	One O'Clock Boogie
13	Down for Double
14	Topsy
15	Basie
16	Splanky
17	Every Tub
18	Blues In Hoss' Flat
19	Shorty George
20	One o'Clock Jump: One O'clock Jump
21	Lester Leaps In
22	Swingin' the Blues
23	Shoutin' Blues
24	Satin Doll
25	After Supper