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Count Basie
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Count Basie · William 'Count' Basie came from Red Bank, New Jersey, learned stride piano in Harlem, where Fats Waller also taught him to play the organ, and ended up stranded in Kansas City in the 1920s. He played with Bennie Moten and, after Moten's death in 1935, started a band of his own at the Reno Club. The producer John Hammond heard him on the radio and brought the band to New York. Basie played strikingly few notes: short, well-placed chords. His rhythm section, with the guitarist Freddie Green, the bassist Walter Page and the drummer Jo Jones, became famous for its light, even swing. With the tenor saxophonist Lester Young and the singer Jimmy Rushing, the band had great soloists. In the 1950s Basie started a second orchestra with tighter arrangements.
Listening
Jumpin' at the Woodside · Count Basie, 1938
April in Paris · Count Basie, 1955
Shiny Stockings · Count Basie, 1956
One O'Clock Jump · Count Basie, 1937
Discography
Studio albums
- 1956Basie Roars Again
- 1956King of Swing
- 1956Pop Goes The Basie
- 1957Basie Rides Again
- 1958Basie Plays Hefti
- 1958Sing Along With Basie
- 1958The Atomic Mr. Basie
- 1959Basie & Eckstine Incorporated
- 1959Count Basie and His Orchestra Swings / Tony Bennett Sings
- 1960Just The Blues
- 1960String Along With Basie
- 1960The Count!
- 1961Count Basie / Sarah Vaughan
- 1961First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
- 1965Basie Picks the Winners
- 1965Big Band Scene '65
- 1965Count At The Organ
- 1965Sammy Davis & Count Basie: Our Shining Hour
- 1966Arthur Prysock / Count Basie
- 1966Basie Swingin' Voices Singin'
- 1966Inside Basie Outside
- 1967Count Basie Captures Walt Disney's The Happiest Millionaire
- 1968Manufacturers of Soul
- 1968The Board of Directors
- 1968The Board of Directors Annual Report
- 1972Count Basie + Voices
- 1973From Broadway To Paris
- 1973The Songs of Bessie Smith
- 1974The Bosses
- 1975“Satch” and “Josh”
- 1975Basie Jam
- 1975Sixteen Great Performances
- 1976Basie & Zoot
- 1977Grand Concert gravé en 1945
- 1979The Gifted Ones
- 1980Kansas City Shout
- 1981Kansas City 6
- 1986Bing ’n Basie
- 1986Get Together
- 1986Mostly Blues...and Some Others
- 1986Yessir, That's My Baby
- 1988Autumn in Paris
- 1988Basie and Friends
- 1989Basie Boogie
- 1989Count Basie Jam / Montreux '77
- 1989One O'Clock Jump
- 1991Basie One More Time
- 1991Loose Walk
- 1992+ The Big Band - Vol.1
- 1992Basie Jam #3
- 1992Basie's Basement
- 1992Compact Jazz: Count Basie Plays The Blues
- 1992Jazztime
- 1992Kansas City 7
- 1992Night Rider
- 1993Big Bands: Count Basie
- 1993Count Basie and His Great Vocalists
- 1993Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings
- 1993The Timekeepers
- 1994Basie Boogie
- 1994Cute
- 1994Listen... You Shall Hear
- 1995Pop Classics
- 1996+ The Big Band - Vol.2
- 1996Afrique
- 1996Blues Alley
- 1996Farmers Market Barbecue
- 1996Kansas City 5
- 1996Me and You
- 1996Sophisticated Swing
- 1998Satch & Josh... Again
- 1998Swingsation
- 1999Cool Too
- 1999One O'Clock Jump
- 1999Too Marvelous for Words
- 2000April in Paris
- 2000Midnite Jazz & Blues: Blue & Sentimental
- 2000The Lang-Worth Transcriptions
- 2001Class of '54
- 2002I Grandi Del Jazz - Count Basie - Verve Jazz Masters 2
- 2002Kansas City Powerhouse
- 2003Chairman of the Board
- 2006Basie Jam 2
- 2006“Satch” and “Josh”
- 2010Swingin' the Blues
- 2015Memories Ad-Lib
- 2016All That Jazz, Vol. 73: Lester Young "Exercises in Swing"
- 2024At The Piano
- 2024Four Classic Albums
- ?Li'l Ol' Groovemaker
- ?On Broadway
- ?One O'Clock Jump
- ?Solid As a Rock
Other work
- 1938Jumpin' at the Woodside
In School of Rock
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- Jazz MapNL Map
- Mixtape 1: The Origins of Pop MusicNL Reader
- Mixtape 5: Jazz FestivalNL Reader
- After Hours: Session 1NL Reader
- After Hours: Session 2NL Reader
- After Hours: Session 4NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- Big band Genre
After the Second World War large orchestras became too expensive, but the form survived: Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Count Basie, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, which played every Monday at the Village Vanguard from 1966, and today Maria Schneider.
- Kansas City jazz Genre
Bennie Moten led the most important orchestra; after his death in 1935 the pianist Count Basie started a band of his own, with the tenor saxophonist Lester Young.