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  1. Pianist and bandleader William James “Count” Basie was and still is an American institution that personifies the grandeur and excellence of Jazz. The Count Basie Orchestra, today directed by Scotty Barnhart, has won every respected jazz poll in the world at least once, won 18 Grammy Awards, performed for Kings, Queens, and other world ...

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  2. The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936. Despite a brief disbandment at the beginning of the 1950s, the band survived long past the big band era itself and the death of Basie in 1984.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Count_BasieCount Basie - Wikipedia

    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.

  4. Show of the Week - Count Basie and his Orchestra (1965) yurinickolaevich. 4.22K subscribers. Subscribed. 20K. 1.8M views 11 years ago.

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  5. The Basie orchestra evolved into one of the most venerable and viable enterprises in American music with the highest levels of continued productivity rivaling any musical organization in history. The Count Basie Orchestra can be viewed between 1935 and 1955 as the Old Testament and New Testament bands.

  6. The second concert of bandleader/pianist William ‘Count’ Basie and his Count Basie Orchestra at the North Sea Jazz Festival 1979 features great solos by bass...

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  7. Apr 2, 2014 · One of jazz music's all-time greats, bandleader-pianist Count Basie was a primary shaper of the big-band sound that characterized mid-20th century popular music.

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