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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Le migliori canzoni dei Count Basie

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

Citazioni di Count Basie

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.