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- Count Basie (1904–84) Bill ‘Count’ Basie led bands that perfected Kansas City jazz and marked the transition from the structured big band style to the musical improvisation style of bebop. Of his hard-swinging, bluesy style it is said “While New Orleans was the birthplace of jazz, America’s music grew up in Kansas City”.
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Count Basie. William James " Count " Basie ( / ˈbeɪsi /; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) [1] was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording.
Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 is an album by American jazz bandleader and pianist Count Basie featuring small group performances recorded in 1962 for the Impulse! label.
William J. “Count” Basie (1904-1984) The title of one of his band’s most famous tunes — “The Kid from Red Bank” – is an obvious tip-off, but many jazz historians assume that William J. “Count” Basie, Jr. was a native of Kansas City, Missouri.
Count Basie and his bands went on to eclipse Bennie Moten’s fame. In 1937, Basie moved to Chicago and then New York, bringing Kansas City jazz to national prominence in the process. Basie carried on the Kansas City jazz style until his death in the 1980s.
Kansas City Suite (subtitled The Music of Benny Carter) is an album by pianist, composer and bandleader Count Basie featuring tracks recorded in 1960 and originally released on the Roulette label.
The Count Basie Orchestra became both the best known and the longest-lived big band to emerge from this region, and Basie made Kansas City jazz nationally and internationally renowned. Bill Basie was born in New Jersey and studied the piano with his mother and, informally, with Fats Waller.
The musician most closely associated with Kansas City jazz, pianist and bandleader William Basie was born in New Jersey and came to Kansas City in the late 1920s. He joined Walter Page’s Blue Devils in 1928 and a year later was lured away to the Bennie Moten Orchestra.
