William James "Count" Basie (/ˈbeɪsi/; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he...

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...

London. The third and fourth were filmed in Red Bank, New Jersey at the Count Basie Theater on Smith's 37th and 40th birthdays, respectively. The fifth was...

Atomic Mr. Basie (originally called Basie, also known as E=MC2 and reissued in 1994 as The Complete Atomic Basie) is a 1958 album by Count Basie, featuring...

and Basie directs the band to play the shout chorus "one more time" and then "one more once." A revised arrangement of the song, played by the Count Basie...

349000°N 74.0701000°W / 40.349000; -74.0701000 The Count Basie Center for the Arts, originally Count Basie Theatre, is a landmarked performing arts center...

composer and bandleader Count Basie and was an advocate for civil rights and for children with disabilities. Catherine Basie (née Morgan) was born on...

In late 1937, Holiday had a brief stint as a big-band vocalist with Count Basie. The traveling conditions of the band were often poor; they performed...

and occasional clarinetist. Coming to prominence while a member of Count Basie's orchestra, Young was one of the most influential players on his instrument...

releasing a string of successful albums. He collaborated with Count Basie on Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First (1962) and It Might as Well Be Swing...

Count Basie at Newport is a live album by jazz musician Count Basie and his orchestra. It was originally issued as Verve MGV 8243 and included only the...

working with acts such as Bunny Berigan, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, and Harry James. From 1942 to 1944, Rich served in the U.S. Marines...

Sinatra at the Sands is a live album by Frank Sinatra accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra, and conducted and arranged by Quincy Jones, recorded...

bands, such as the Count Basie Orchestra and the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, and with small combos. He sang in two films with the Basie orchestra and sometimes...

Now concentrating on writing music only, he began an association with Count Basie in 1950. Hefti occasionally led his own bands. Neal Paul Hefti was born...

famous accomplishments were playing with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and the Count Basie Orchestra. His 1975 recording Plenty Good Eaton is considered a classic...

was the first recording that Sinatra made with the Count Basie Orchestra. In 1964, Sinatra and Basie would make a final studio recording, It Might as Well...

recorded by Mart Britt and his Orchestra, but most famous in the version by Count Basie. The lyrics describe a woman who is a habitual drinker. The song has...

Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie is a 1956 album by Oscar Peterson, of music associated with Count Basie. "Lester Leaps In" (Lester Young) – 3:58 "Easy...

Homage to Count Basie is an album by the Bob Mintzer Big Band that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2002. Bob Mintzer – clarinet...

The Count Basie Orchestra emerged out of Kansas City, Missouri following the death of Bennie Moten and the dissemination of his band. Count Basie would...

produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. on September 23, 1945, to a crowd of 15,000. Count Basie, the Honeydrippers, The Peters Sisters, Slim and Bam and Valaida Snow...

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...

Bandleader Count Basie has a cameo as himself, appearing with his orchestra. The film is full of deliberate anachronisms, from the Count Basie Orchestra...

(Inakustik) 2007 Reunion Blues (Salt Peanuts) 2008 Oscar Peterson & Count Basie: Together in Concert 1974 (Impro-Jazz Spain) 2008 Jazz Icons: Oscar Peterson...

bands in Des Moines and Oklahoma City, Jones became a member of the Count Basie Orchestra in May 1954. He was featured as a soloist on such well-known...

American singer. Humes was a teenage blues singer, a vocalist with Count Basie's band, a saucy R&B diva, and a mature interpreter of the classic popular...

including Count Basie Theatre, named for Count Basie, who was born in Red Bank, Basie Center Cinemas, and the Two River Theater. The Count Basie Theatre...

was an American swing jazz guitarist who played rhythm guitar with the Count Basie Orchestra for almost fifty years. Green was born in Charleston, South...

by Count Basie. The music for this album was arranged by Quincy Jones, who had worked with Count Basie a year earlier on the album This Time by Basie, which...