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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Principais músicas de Count Basie

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	The Kid from Red Bank
8	Fly Me to the Moon
9	Splanky
10	Basie's
11	Honeysuckle Rose
12	Moten Swing
13	Good Morning Blues
14	Jive At Five
15	Oh! Lady Be Good
16	Lester Leaps In
17	Basie Boogie
18	Taxi War Dance
19	Boogie Woogie
20	Tea For Two
21	I Can't Stop Loving You
22	Corner Pocket
23	Swingin' the Blues
24	Dream a Little Dream of Me
25	Yesterday

Citações de 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.