Published video “Count Basie Orchestra - One O'Clock Jump (ZDF JazzClub, 1987)”.
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Count Basie
William James "Count" Basie 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. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two "split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers…
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entertainment · American jazz musician and composer (1904–1984) · pianist · bandleader · conductor · composer · autobiographer · actor · jazz musician · songwriter · organist · orchestra leader · also Count Basie, William James "Count" Basie, William James Basie, William Basie, Basie
Born 21 August 1904 · Died 26 April 1984 · Q107008
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2026· 10 entries
Published video “See See Rider (ZDF JazzClub, 1987) 🎤 Carmen Bradford Brings the House Down #countbasie #jazz”.
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Published video “Count Basie Orchestra feat. Carmen Bradford - See See Rider (ZDF JazzClub, 1987)”.
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Published video “Count Basie – Jumpin At The Woodside Animated Video”.
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Published video “A Beautiful Big Band Performance ✨ I'll Close My Eyes LIVE 1987 #countbasie #carmenbradford”.
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Published video “Count Basie Orchestra feat. Carmen Bradford - I'll Close My Eyes (ZDF JazzClub, 1987)”.
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Published video “Jumpin’ At The Woodside (Official)”.
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Published video “A Foggy Day (ZDF JazzClub, 1987) 🎤 Carmen Bradford Shines with the Basie Orchestra #countbasie #jazz”.
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Published video “Count Basie Orchestra feat. Carmen Bradford - A Foggy Day (ZDF JazzClub, 1987)”.
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Published video “Big Band Magic on Full Display ✨ Basie LIVE at ZDF JazzClub #countbasie #livemusic #jazz”.
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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: Bon Jovi, Count Basie will be inaugural members of N.J. theater’s Walk of Fame
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app.com: Count Basie Center Centennial Celebration kickoff gets a little help from Jon Stewart
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2024· 3 entries
Released album “At The Piano”.
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Yahoo: Count Basie rocks! Music legend honored with birthday shows in NYC, Red Bank
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Released album “Four Classic Albums”.
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2019· 1 entry
Basie was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “All That Jazz, Vol. 73: Lester Young "Exercises in Swing"”.
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2015· 2 entries
The Atlantic: The Loss of Count Basie
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Released album “Memories Ad-Lib”.
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2014· 1 entry
The Daily Telegraph: Count Basie: a jazz pioneer who still inspires
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Kansas Music Hall of Fame (2011).
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2010· 4 entries
Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2010).
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Jazz: Count Basie: Live in Berlin & Stockholm 1968
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Basie was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame
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Released album “Swingin' the Blues”.
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2009· 1 entry
Edgecombe Avenue and 160th Street in Washington Heights, Manhattan, were renamed as Paul Robeson Boulevard and Count Basie Place
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2008· 1 entry
NPR: Count Basie: The Man and His Music, Pt. 1
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2006· 3 entries
The Independent: The perfect collaboration: Ray Charles and Count Basie
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Released album “Basie Jam 2”.
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Released album “Satch and Josh....Again”.
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2005· 1 entry
Count Basie's song "One O'Clock Jump" (1937) was included by the National Recording Preservation Board in the Library of Congress National Recording Registry
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2004· 1 entry
Jazz: Count Basie?s Centennial Celebration
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Chairman of the Board”.
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2002· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2002).
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Released album “Kansas City Powerhouse”.
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Released album “I Grandi Del Jazz - Count Basie - Verve Jazz Masters 2”.
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “Class of '54”.
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2001).
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2000· 3 entries
Released album “The Lang-Worth Transcriptions”.
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Released album “Midnite Jazz & Blues: Blue & Sentimental”.
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Released album “April in Paris”.
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “Too Marvelous for Words”.
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Released album “One O’Clock Jump”.
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Released album “Cool Too”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Satch & Josh... Again”.
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Released album “Swingsation”.
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1996· 7 entries
Released album “Me and You”.
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Released album “Blues Alley”.
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Released album “Farmers Market Barbecue”.
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Released album “+ The Big Band - Vol.2”.
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Released album “Kansas City 5”.
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Released album “Afrique”.
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Released album “Sophisticated Swing”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Pop Classics”.
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1994· 3 entries
Released album “Listen... You Shall Hear”.
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Released album “Cute”.
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Released album “Count Basie – The Very Best”.
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1993· 4 entries
Released album “Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings”.
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Released album “The Timekeepers”.
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Released album “Big Bands: Count Basie”.
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Released album “Count Basie and His Great Vocalists”.
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1992· 6 entries
Released album “Night Rider”.
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Released album “+ The Big Band - Vol.1”.
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Released album “Basie Jam #3”.
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Released album “Kansas City 7”.
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Released album “Jazztime”.
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Released album “Basie's Basement”.
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1991· 2 entries
Released album “Basie One More Time”.
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Released album “Loose Walk”.
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1989· 3 entries
Released album “Basie Boogie”.
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Released album “Count Basie Jam / Montreux '77”.
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Released album “One O'Clock Jump”.
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1988· 2 entries
Released album “Autumn in Paris”.
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Released album “Basie and Friends”.
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1986· 4 entries
Released album “Yessir, That's My Baby”.
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Released album “Mostly Blues...and Some Others”.
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Released album “Bing ’n Basie”.
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Released album “Get Together”.
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1985· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Ronald Reagan (1985).
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William "Count" Basie was presented, posthumously, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for 88 Basie Street (1984).
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Died 1984-04-26.
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded NEA Jazz Masters (1983).
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1982· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for Warm Breeze (1982).
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1982).
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Basie and his orchestra were the featured entertainment for the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Pittsburgh Steelers at the David L
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1981· 3 entries
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1981).
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Awarded Grammy Trustees Award (1981).
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Released album “Kansas City 6”.
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1980· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for On the Road (1980).
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Awarded Grammy Trustees Award (1980).
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Released album “Kansas City Shout”.
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “The Gifted Ones”.
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1977· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for Prime Time (1977).
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Released album “Grand Concert gravé en 1945”.
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance for Basie & Zoot (1976).
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Released album “Basie & Zoot”.
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1975· 3 entries
Released album “Basie Jam”.
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Released album ““Satch” and “Josh””.
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Released album “Sixteen Great Performances”.
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “The Bosses”.
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1973· 3 entries
Released album “The Songs of Bessie Smith”.
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Released album “From Broadway To Paris”.
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To honor recordings that are at least 25 years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance
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1972· 2 entries
Released album “Super Chief”.
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Released album “Count Basie + Voices”.
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1968· 4 entries
Basie and his Band recorded an album with Jackie Wilson titled Manufacturers of Soul
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Released album “The Board of Directors”.
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Released album “Manufacturers of Soul”.
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Released album “The Board of Directors Annual Report”.
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1967· 1 entry
Released album “Count Basie Captures Walt Disney's The Happiest Millionaire”.
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1966· 3 entries
Released album “Basie Swingin' Voices Singin'”.
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Released album “Inside Basie Outside”.
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Released album “Arthur Prysock / Count Basie”.
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1965· 4 entries
Released album “Big Band Scene '65”.
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Released album “Count At The Organ”.
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Released album “Basie Picks the Winners”.
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Released album “Sammy Davis & Count Basie: Our Shining Hour”.
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1963· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra – for Dancing (1963).
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Released album “Big Bands Are Back!”.
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Released album “More Hits of the '50's and '60's”.
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1961· 2 entries
Released album “First Time! The Count Meets the Duke”.
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Released album “Count Basie / Sarah Vaughan”.
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1960· 4 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra – for Dancing (1960).
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Released album “The Count!”.
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Released album “Just The Blues”.
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Released album “String Along With Basie”.
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1959· 3 entries
Released album “Count Basie and His Orchestra Swings / Tony Bennett Sings”.
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Basie's band recorded a "greatest hits" double album The Count Basie Story (Frank Foster, arranger), and Basie/Eckstine Incorporated, an album featuring Billy Eckstine, Quincy Jones (as arranger) and the Count Basie Orch
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Released album “Basie & Eckstine Incorporated”.
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1958· 6 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album for The Atomic Mr. Basie (1958).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra – for Dancing for The Atomic Mr. Basie (1958).
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Released album “The Atomic Mr. Basie”.
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Released album “Basie Plays Hefti”.
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Released album “Sing Along With Basie”.
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Basie became the first African-American to win a Grammy Award
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1957· 3 entries
Basie sued the jazz venue Ball and Chain in Miami over outstanding fees, causing the closure of the venue
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Released album “Basie Rides Again”.
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Basie released the live album Count Basie at Newport
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1956· 5 entries
Released album “King of Swing”.
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Released album “Basie Roars Again”.
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Released album “Blues by Basie”.
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Released album “The Greatest! Count Basie Plays...Joe Williams Sings Standards”.
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Released album “Pop Goes The Basie”.
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1950· 1 entry
Headlined the Universal-International short film "Sugar Chile" Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet
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1949· 1 entry
Released album “Count Basie Dance Parade”.
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1942· 1 entry
The band did a spot in Reveille With Beverly, a musical film starring Ann Miller, and a "Command Performance" for Armed Forces Radio, with Hollywood stars Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Carmen Miranda, Jerry Colonna, and the
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1940· 2 entries
In the King County courthouse in Seattle, Washington
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Count Basie and his Orchestra opened a four-week engagement at Southland in Boston, and they broadcast over the radio on February 20
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1939· 1 entry
Basie and his band made a major cross-country tour, including their first West Coast dates
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1938· 1 entry
"Boogie Woogie" was released in 1941 as part of a four-record compilation album entitled Boogie Woogie (Columbia album C44)
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1937· 1 entry
Made the Woodside Hotel in Harlem their base (they often rehearsed in its basement)
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1935· 1 entry
Formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording
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1930· 1 entry
Basie married Vivian Lee Winn, in Kansas City, Missouri
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1929· 1 entry
Basie became the pianist with the Bennie Moten band based in Kansas City, inspired by Moten's ambition to raise his band to match the level of those led by Duke Ellington or Fletcher Henderson
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1928· 1 entry
Basie was in Tulsa and heard Walter Page and his Famous Blue Devils, one of the first big bands, which featured Jimmy Rushing on vocals
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1925· 1 entry
Basie gained his first steady job at Leroy's, a place known for its piano players and its "cutting contests"
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1919· 1 entry
Basie switched to piano exclusively at age 15
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1904· 2 entries
Born 1904-08-21.
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In Red Bank, New Jersey, to Lillian (née Childs) and Harvey Lee Basie
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