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Count Basie albums featuring John Clayton
Count Basie Music Videos (29)
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| | Basie Swings Standards CD (2009)
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BASIE SWINGS STANDARDS is a collection culled from the Count Basie band's late 1970s and early `80s recordings for Pablo Records. Most songs are standards from early in the 20th century, but they're rendered in the Basie post-`50s style--lots of ...
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| Get Together CD (1979)
$13.95
Unlike the various Kansas City groups that Basie spearheaded, the Kansas City 8 is the only ensemble where all of the musicians were at one time or another part of Basie's small or large bands. It also represents a spectrum ...
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 Count Basie Lyrics and Songs
Popular or famous Count Basie songs: Jumpin' at the Woodside Lyrics, Blue and Sentimental Lyrics, April in Paris Lyrics, Swingin' the Blues Lyrics, Sent For You Yesterday Lyrics. More music lyrics and songs Topsy Lyrics, Broadway Lyrics, Rock-a-Bye Basie Lyrics, John's Idea Lyrics, Honeysuckle Rose Lyrics, How Long Blues Lyrics, Goin' to Chicago Blues Lyrics. More music lyrics and songs Every Day I Have the Blues Lyrics, Roll 'Em Pete Lyrics, All of Me Lyrics, Taxi War Dance Lyrics, Smack Dab in the Middle Lyrics, Jumpin at the Woodside Lyrics, Sweet Lorraine Lyrics. More music lyrics and songs Lullaby of Birdland Lyrics.
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Count Basie Biography
Simply put, Count Basie led the most swinging of the classic big bands. His youthful education in playing stride piano in New York was meshed with a deep immersion in the hard-swinging Kansas City jazz scene of the early 1930s. As Basie moved from sideman to bandleader, his tight-knit ensemble eventually came to rival Duke Ellington's group. The Basie orchestra's perfectly interlocking rhythm section provided a springboard for a succession of jazz giants--most notably tenor man Lester Young--to launch their solo excursions. Basie's big-band vision was so strong that his group continued for decades after his passing.
Key Personnel
| Member Name | Worked With | | Count Basie | Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Charlie Christian, Oscar Peterson, Jimmy Rushing, Harry "Sweets" Edison | | Freddie Green | Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Jimmy Rushing, Lester Young, Joe Williams, Charlie Parker, Big Joe Turner, Dinah Washington | | Charlie Fowlkes | Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Joe Williams, Stan Getz, Tony Bennett, Buck Clayton, Nat "King" Cole, Billie Holiday, Milt Jackson | | Marshall Royal | Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Nat "King" Cole, Duke Ellington, Slim Gaillard, Billie Holiday | | Joe Newman | Jimmy Smith, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams, Herbie Hancock, Eddie Harris, Illinois Jacquet |
Contemporaries
Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Illinois Jacquet, Buck Clayton, Jimmy Rushing, Buddy Tate, Don Byas, Frank Foster, Neal Hefti, Helen Humes, Jo Jones (Drums)
Followers
Charlie Parker, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Harry James, Manhattan Transfer, Quincy Jones, Johnny Otis, Oliver Nelson, Terry Gibbs, John Lewis, Gerald Wilson, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Milt Buckner
Influences
Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Bennie Moten, W.C. Handy
More Music Artists
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