In 1935, pianist William "Count" Basie (born August 21, 1904), a fixture on the Kansas City jazz scene since the late 1920s, organized his own rocking, riffing, blues-based big band. The following ...

From 1935 to his death in 1984, pianist and bandleader Count Basie led one of the most important jazz institutions of the 20th century, in the process forging a distinctive sound that changed the ...

This past August marked the 100th anniversary of Count Basie's birth and in recognition of that august event, reissued are some of the big band master's finest sides from the late '50s and early '60s.

Count Basie's band was the epitome of swing and his pioneering sound can still be heard in jazz orchestras all over the world. Basie, who was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, on August 21 1904 ...

Hi, I'm Murray Horwitz, and that's one of the greatest ensembles in all of jazz — The Count Basie Orchestra of the 1950s. It accounts for half of the title of our latest entry into the NPR Basic ...

An agreement with Count Basie's trust will allow Count Basie Theatre to use the musician's name for the next century. Basie was born in Red Bank and played a 1979 show at the theater that now ...

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