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	April in Paris
3	Basie
4	Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
5	Jumpin' At The Woodside
6	Fly Me to the Moon
7	Moten Swing
8	Li'l Darlin'
9	Basie's
10	Honeysuckle Rose
11	Corner Pocket
12	The Kid from Red Bank
13	Splanky
14	Jive At Five
15	Taxi War Dance
16	Oh! Lady Be Good
17	Topsy
18	Lester Leaps In
19	Basie Boogie
20	After Supper
21	Blue and Sentimental
22	Blues In Hoss' Flat
23	All of Me
24	A Hard Day's Night
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.