Count Basie

United States
August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984

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William James "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. His mother taught him to play the piano and he started performing in his teens. Dropping out of school, he learned to operate lights for vaudeville and to improvise accompaniment for silent films at a local movie theater in his home town of Red Bank, New Jersey. By age 16, he increasingly played jazz piano at parties, resorts and other venues. In 1924, he went to Harlem, where his performing career expanded; he toured with groups to the major jazz cities of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. In 1929 he joined Bennie Moten's band in Kansas City, and played with them until Moten's death in 1935.

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Para os últimos 14 dias:

605 pistas
424 estações
43 países

Estações de rádio que tocam Count Basie on-line

Good Morning Blues

Christmas 365 - Santa's Radio

Principais músicas de Count Basie

1	One O'Clock Jump
2	April in Paris
3	Basie
4	Jumpin' At The Woodside
5	Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
6	Moten Swing
7	Fly Me to the Moon
8	Basie's
9	Splanky
10	Honeysuckle Rose
11	Corner Pocket
12	Taxi War Dance
13	Lester Leaps In
14	Li'l Darlin'
15	Basie Boogie
16	Oh! Lady Be Good
17	Blues In Hoss' Flat
18	Jive At Five
19	Blue and Sentimental
20	Yesterday
21	The Kid from Red Bank
22	Swingin' the Blues
23	Basie
24	Shorty George
25	Ain't Misbehavin'

Citações de Count Basie

I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound. A sound I'd never heard before or since. To be honest with you, I didn't much like it at first.