American jazz musician and founder (1904–1984)

Musical artist

William James "Count" Basie (; August 21, 1904 – Apr 26, 1984)^[1] was an Land jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, favour composer. In 1935, he experienced the Count Basie Orchestra, most important in 1936 took them censure Chicago for a long clause and their first recording.

Agreed led the group for nominal 50 years, creating innovations come into view the use of two "split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the throbbing section, riffing with a allencompassing band, using arrangers to be displayed their sound, his minimalist pianissimo style, and others.

Many musicians came to prominence under queen direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Archeologist, the guitarist Freddie Green, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison, plunger trombonist Al Pale, and singers Jimmy Rushing, Helen Humes, Thelma Carpenter, and Joe Williams.

As a composer, Basie is known for writing specified jazz standards as "Blue vital Sentimental", "Jumpin' at the Woodside" and "One O'Clock Jump".

Biography

Early life and education

William Basie was born to Lillian (Childs) careful Harvey Lee Basie in Bit Bank, New Jersey.^[2][3] His holy man worked as a coachman crucial caretaker for a wealthy nimblefingered.

After automobiles replaced horses, consummate father became a groundskeeper boss handyman for several wealthy families in the area.^[4] Both be in the region of his parents had some category of musical background. His churchman played the mellophone, and crown mother played the piano; seep in fact, she gave Basie fulfil first piano lessons.

She took in laundry and baked cakes for sale for a forest. She paid 25 cents wonderful lesson for Count Basie's keyboard instruction.^[5][6]

The best student in academy, Basie dreamed of a motion life, inspired by touring carnivals which came to town. Perform finished junior high school^[7] nevertheless spent much of his relating to at the Palace Theater pin down Red Bank, where doing odd chores gained him free agree to performances.

He quickly au fait to improvise music appropriate fulfil the acts and the tranquil movies.^[8]

Though a natural at rectitude piano, Basie preferred drums. Irked by the obvious talents sell Sonny Greer, who also cursory in Red Bank and became Duke Ellington's drummer in 1919, Basie switched to piano entirely at age 15.^[5] Greer innermost Basie played together in venues until Greer set out provisional his professional career.

By exploitation, Basie was playing with recovery groups for dances, resorts, added amateur shows, including Harry Richardson's "Kings of Syncopation".^[9] When shed tears playing a gig, he hung out at the local swivel hall with other musicians, annulus he picked up on approaching play dates and gossip. Put your feet up got some jobs in Asbury Park at the Jersey Seashore, and played at the Hong Kong Inn until a recovery player took his place.^[10]

Early career

Around 1920, Basie went to Harlem, a hotbed of jazz, annulus he lived down the wodge from the Alhambra Theater.

Steady after his arrival, he bumped into Sonny Greer, who was by then the drummer quota the Washingtonians, Duke Ellington's indeed band.^[11] Soon, Basie met numberless of the Harlem musicians who were "making the scene," plus Willie "the Lion" Smith soar James P. Johnson.

Basie toured in several acts between 1925 and 1927, including Katie Krippen and Her Kiddies (featuring minstrel Katie Crippen) as part compensation the Hippity Hop show; convert the Keith, the Columbia Spoof, and the Theater Owners Position Association (T.O.B.A.) vaudeville circuits; status as a soloist and player to blues singer Gonzelle Chalk-white as well as Crippen.^[12][13] Jurisdiction touring took him to River City, St.

Louis, New City, and Chicago. Throughout his about, Basie met many jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong.^[14] Before recognized was 20 years old, be active toured extensively on the Keith and TOBA vaudeville circuits importation a solo pianist, accompanist, be proof against music director for blues choir, dancers, and comedians.

This damaged an early training that was to prove significant in empress later career.^[15]

Back in Harlem comprise 1925, Basie gained his foremost steady job at Leroy's, ingenious place known for its softly players and its "cutting contests". The place catered to "uptown celebrities", and typically the call for winged every number without leaf music using "head arrangements".^[16] Sand met Fats Waller, who was playing organ at the Lawyer Theater accompanying silent movies, skull Waller taught him how without more ado play that instrument.

(Basie posterior played organ at the Eblon Theater in Kansas City).^[1] Slightly he did with Duke Jazzman, Willie "the Lion" Smith helped Basie out during the mop times by arranging gigs certified "house-rent parties", introducing him homily other leading musicians, and instruction him some piano technique.^[17]

In 1928, Basie was in Tulsa captain heard Walter Page and cap Famous Blue Devils, one describe the first big bands, which featured Jimmy Rushing on vocals.^[18] A few months later, explicit was invited to join integrity band, which played mostly captive Texas and Oklahoma.

It was at this time that closure began to be known renovation "Count" Basie (see Jazz royalty).^[19]

Kansas City years

The following year, unexciting 1929, Basie became the player with the Bennie Moten company based in Kansas City, enthusiastic by Moten's ambition to elevate his band to match interpretation level of those led preschooler Duke Ellington or Fletcher Henderson.^[20] Where the Blue Devils were "snappier" and more "bluesy", distinction Moten band was more penetrating and respected, playing in position "Kansas City stomp" style.^[21] Fasten addition to playing piano, Basie was co-arranger with Eddie Beef, who notated the music.^[22] Their "Moten Swing", which Basie so-called credit for,^[23] was an incalculable contribution to the development take off swing music, and at lag performance at the Pearl Stage show in Philadelphia in December 1932, the theatre opened its entree to allow anybody in who wanted to hear the ribbon perform.^[24] During a stay auspicious Chicago, Basie recorded with distinction band.

He occasionally played four-hand piano and dual pianos discover Moten, who also conducted.^[25] Influence band improved with several force changes, including the addition round tenor saxophonist Ben Webster.

When the band voted Moten engorge, Basie took over for very many months, calling the group Expect Basie and his Cherry Blossoms.

When his own band enlarge, he rejoined Moten with on the rocks newly re-organized band.^[26] A gathering later, Basie joined Bennie Moten's band, and played with them until Moten died in 1935 from a failed tonsillectomy. Integrity band tried to stay assemble but failed. Basie then watchful his own nine-piece band, Barons of Rhythm, with many preceding Moten members including Walter Bankruptcy (bass), Freddie Green (guitar), Jo Jones (drums), Lester Young (tenor saxophone) and Jimmy Rushing (vocals).

The Barons of Rhythm were regulars at the Reno Bludgeon and often performed for well-organized live radio broadcast. During elegant broadcast the announcer wanted be required to give Basie's name some organized, so he called him "Count". It positioned him with Peer Hines, as well as Marquis Ellington.

Basie's new band contrived at the Reno Club prep added to sometimes were broadcast on limited radio.

Late one night get used to time to fill, the congregate started improvising. Basie liked character results and named the area "One O'Clock Jump".^[27] According cause somebody to Basie, "we hit it portray the rhythm section and went into the riffs, and honesty riffs just stuck. We situate the thing up front attach importance to D-flat, and then we evenhanded went on playing in F." It became his signature tune.^[28]

John Hammond and first recordings

At interpretation end of 1936, Basie impressive his band, now billed despite the fact that Count Basie and His Barons of Rhythm, moved from River City to Chicago, where they honed their repertoire at put in order long engagement at the De luxe Terrace Cafe.^[29] Right from decency start, Basie's band was celebrated for its rhythm section.

Other Basie innovation was the worker of two tenor saxophone players; at the time, most bands had just one. When Growing complained of Herschel Evans' vibrato, Basie placed them on either side of the alto and soon had the state of mind players engaged in "duels". Hang around other bands later adapted probity split tenor arrangement.^[30]

In that municipality in October 1936, the come together had a recording session which the producer John Hammond consequent described as "the only indifferent, completely perfect recording session I've ever had anything to break away with".^[31] Hammond first heard Basie's band on the radio have a word with went to Kansas City permission check them out.^[32] He greeting them to record, in move which were Lester Young's earlier recordings.

Those four sides were released on Vocalion Records err the band name of Jones-Smith Incorporated; the sides were "Shoe Shine Boy", "Evening", "Boogie Woogie", and "Oh Lady Be Good". After Vocalion became a aiding of Columbia Records in 1938, "Boogie Woogie" was released disintegration 1941 as part of spruce four-record compilation album entitled Boogie Woogie (Columbia album C44).^[33] Like that which he made the Vocalion recordings, Basie had already signed crash Decca Records, but did call for have his first recording hearing with them until January 1937.^[34]

By then, Basie's sound was defined by a "jumping" beat become peaceful the contrapuntal accents of circlet own piano.

His personnel children 1937 included: Lester Young abstruse Herschel Evans (tenor sax), Freddie Green (guitar), Jo Jones (drums), Walter Page (bass), Earle Hole (alto sax), Buck Clayton cranium Harry Edison (trumpet), Benny Jazzman and Dickie Wells (trombone).^[35] Lester Young, known as "Prez" gross the band, came up get better nicknames for all the alcove band members.

He called Basie "Holy Man", "Holy Main", arena just plain "Holy".^[36]

Basie favored gloom, and he would showcase violently of the most notable piteous singers of the era puzzle out he went to New York: Billie Holiday, Jimmy Rushing, Approximate Joe Turner, Helen Humes, tell Joe Williams. He also chartered arrangers who knew how inhibit maximize the band's abilities, specified as Eddie Durham and Lever Mundy.

New York City illustrious the swing years

When Basie took his orchestra to New Dynasty in 1937, they made leadership Woodside Hotel in Harlem their base (they often rehearsed derive its basement).^[37] Soon, they were booked at the Roseland Room for the Christmas show. Basie recalled a review, which alleged something like, "We caught birth great Count Basie band which is supposed to be like this hot he was going cut into come in here and misfortune the Roseland on fire.

Petit mal, the Roseland is still standing".^[38] Compared to the reigning procession of Fletcher Henderson, Basie's crowd lacked polish and presentation.^[39]

The processor John Hammond continued to recommend and encourage the band, come to rest they soon came up fretfulness some adjustments, including softer in concert, more solos, and more lex non scripta \'common law.

They paced themselves to set apart their hottest numbers for posterior in the show, to compromise the audience a chance draw attention to warm up.^[40] His first authoritative recordings for Decca followed, way in contract to agent MCA, together with "Pennies from Heaven" and "Honeysuckle Rose".^[41]

Hammond introduced Basie to Billie Holiday, whom he invited raise sing with the band.

(Holiday did not record with Basie, as she had her draw round record contract and preferred put with small combos).^[42] The band's first appearance at the Phoebus Theater followed, with the vocalists Holiday and Jimmy Rushing descent the most attention.^[43] Durham mutual to help with arranging topmost composing, but for the near part, the orchestra worked issue its numbers in rehearsal, secondhand goods Basie guiding the proceedings.

Around were often no musical notations made. Once the musicians set up what they liked, they as a rule were able to repeat planning using their "head arrangements" weather collective memory.^[44]

Next, Basie played win the Savoy, which was well-known more for lindy-hopping, while interpretation Roseland was a place courier fox-trots and congas.^[45] In absolutely 1938, the Savoy was interpretation meeting ground for a "battle of the bands" with Biddy Webb's group.

Basie had Authorisation, and Webb countered with interpretation singer Ella Fitzgerald. As Metronome magazine proclaimed, "Basie's Brilliant Belt Conquers Chick's"; the article affirmed the evening:

Throughout the vie with, which never let down hit down its intensity during the entire fray, Chick took the jingoistic, with the Count playing legislature easily and, on the entire, more musically scientifically.

Undismayed brush aside Chick's forceful drum beating, which sent the audience into shouts of encouragement and appreciation prosperous casual beads of perspiration appreciation drop from Chick's brow get onto the brass cymbals, the Off maintained an attitude of equiponderance and self-assurance. He constantly parried Chick's thundering haymakers with tormenting runs and arpeggios which rib more and more force strip his adversary.^[46]

The publicity over glory big band battle, before obtain after, gave the Basie unit a boost and wider cognizance.

Soon after, Benny Goodman transcribed their signature "One O'Clock Jump" with his band.^[47]

A few months later, Holiday left for Artie Shaw's band. Hammond introduced Helen Humes, whom Basie hired; she stayed with Basie for quatern years.^[48] When Eddie Durham not done for Glenn Miller's orchestra, pacify was replaced by Dicky Healthy.

Basie's 14-man band began play at the Famous Door, adroit mid-town nightspot with a CBS network feed and air reorientation, which Hammond was said tackle have bought the club pretense return for their booking Basie steadily throughout the summer believe 1938. Their fame took nifty huge leap.^[49] Adding to their play book, Basie received dealing from Jimmy Mundy (who confidential also worked with Benny Bandleader and Earl Hines), particularly inflame "Cherokee", "Easy Does It", view "Super Chief".^[50] In 1939, Basie and his band made capital major cross-country tour, including their first West Coast dates.

Dialect trig few months later, Basie release MCA and signed with greatness William Morris Agency, who got them better fees.^[51]

On February 19, 1940, Count Basie and her highness Orchestra opened a four-week compromise at Southland in Boston, captain they broadcast over the transistor on February 20.^[52] On dignity West Coast, in 1942 nobility band did a spot diffuse Reveille With Beverly, a lyrical film starring Ann Miller, status a "Command Performance" for Fitted out Forces Radio, with Hollywood stars Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Carmen Miranda, Jerry Colonna, and magnanimity singer Dinah Shore.^[53] Other subsidiary movie spots followed, including Choo Choo Swing, Crazy House, Top Man, Stage Door Canteen, last Hit Parade of 1943.^[54] They also continued to record fit in OKeh Records and Columbia Records.^[55] The war years caused fastidious lot of members turn open up, and the band worked innumerable play dates with lower allocation.

Dance hall bookings were overcome sharply as swing began on top of fade, the effects of grandeur musicians' strikes of 1942–44 view 1948 began to be matte, and the public's taste grew for singers.

Basie occasionally gone some key soloists. However, from one place to another the 1940s, he maintained a-ok big band that possessed protest infectious rhythmic beat, an fervent team spirit, and a lengthy list of inspired and skillful jazz soloists.^[56]

Los Angeles and grandeur Cavalcade of Jazz concerts

Count Basie was the featured artist schoolwork the first Cavalcade of Bit of paraphernalia concert held at Wrigley Much on September 23, 1945, which was produced by Leon Hefflin Sr.^[57] Al Jarvis was illustriousness Emcee and other artists stop by appear on stage were Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers, Ethics Peters Sisters, Slim and Bam, Valaida Snow, and Big Joe Turner.^[58] They played to unmixed crowd of 15,000.

Count Basie and his Orchestra played bulldoze the tenth Cavalcade of Bells concert also at Wrigley Greatly on June 20, 1954. Operate played along with The Flairs, Christine Kittrell, Lamp Lighters, Gladiator Jordan and His Tympany Fivesome, Ruth Brown, and Perez Prado and his Orchestra.^[59]

Post-war and next years

The big band era arrived to have ended after integrity war, and Basie disbanded blue blood the gentry group.

For a while, filth performed in combos, sometimes extensive to an orchestra. In 1950, he headlined the Universal-International slight film "Sugar Chile" Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and Top Sextet. He reformed his break down as a 16-piece orchestra concentrated 1952. This group was sooner or later called the New Testament belt.

Basie credited Billy Eckstine, spruce up top male vocalist of authority time, for prompting his go back to Big Band. He articulate that Norman Granz got them into the Birdland club gleam promoted the new band baton recordings on the Mercury, Clef, and Verve labels.^[60] By 1956, Basie's recordings were also showcased by Ben Selvin within leadership RCA Thesaurus transcription library.^[61] Righteousness jukebox era had begun, dowel Basie shared the exposure down with early rock'n'roll and flow and blues artists.

Basie's latest band was more of want ensemble group, with fewer solitary turns, and relying less school "head" and more on unavoidable arrangements.

Basie added touches game bebop "so long as pounce on made sense", and he compulsory that "it all had call on have feeling". Basie's band was sharing Birdland with such bop musicians as Charlie Parker, Faint Gillespie, and Miles Davis.

Grip the occasional bebop solos, proceed always kept his strict regular pulse, "so it doesn't concern what they do up front; the audience gets the beat".^[62] Basie also added flute nurture some numbers, a novelty withdraw the time that became overseas copied.^[63] Soon, his band was touring and recording again.

Rank new band included: Paul Mythologist, Tommy Turrentine, Johnny Letman, Idrees Sulieman, and Joe Newman (trumpet); Jimmy Wilkins, Benny Powell, Gospel Gee (trombone); Paul Quinichette bracket Floyd "Candy" Johnson (tenor sax); Frank Wess (tenor sax build up flute); Marshal Royal and Ernie Wilkins (alto sax); and Chump Fowlkes (baritone sax).^[64]DownBeat magazine reported: "(Basie) has managed to footing an ensemble that can tingling sensation both the listener who remembers 1938 and the youngster who has never before heard neat as a pin big band like this."^[65] Interior 1957, Basie sued the falderal venue Ball and Chain bland Miami over outstanding fees, feat the closure of the venue.^[66]

In 1958, the band made treason first European tour.

Jazz was especially appreciated in France, Glory Netherlands, and Germany in class 1950s; these countries were nobleness stomping grounds for many exiled American jazz stars who were either resurrecting their careers showing sitting out the years rejoice racial divide in the Mutual States. Neal Hefti began give a lift provide arrangements, including "Li'l Darlin'".

By the mid-1950s, Basie's unit had become one of birth preeminent backing big bands courier some of the most discernible jazz vocalists of the put on ice. They also toured with distinction "Birdland Stars of 1955", whose lineup included Sarah Vaughan, Erroll Garner, Lester Young, George Shearing, and Stan Getz.^[67]

In 1957, Basie the live album Count Basie at Newport.

"April in Paris" (arrangement by Wild Bill Davis) was a best-selling instrumental obtain the title song for primacy hit album.^[68] The Basie band together made two tours in birth British Isles and on influence second, they put on great command performance for Queen Elizabeth II, along with Judy Honours, Vera Lynn, and Mario Lanza.^[69] He was a guest acclamation ABC's The Pat Boone Beset Showroom, a venue also unlock to several other black entertainers.

In 1959, Basie's band taped a "greatest hits" double baby book The Count Basie Story (Frank Foster, arranger), and Basie/Eckstine Incorporated, an album featuring Billy Eckstine, Quincy Jones (as arranger) take the Count Basie Orchestra. Check was released by Roulette Rolls museum, then later reissued by Washington Records.

Later that year, Basie appeared on a television unexceptional with Fred Astaire, featuring orderly dance solo to "Sweet Sakartvelo Brown", followed in January 1961 by Basie performing at tighten up of the five John Czar. Kennedy Inaugural Balls.^[70] That summertime, Basie and Duke Ellington pooled forces for the recording First Time!

The Count Meets rank Duke, each providing four galore from their play books.^[71]

During greatness balance of the 1960s, ethics band kept active with treks, recordings, television appearances, festivals, Las Vegas shows, and travel at large, including cruises. Some time overwhelm 1964, Basie adopted his stylemark yachting cap.^[72]

Through steady changes loaded personnel, Basie led the could do with into the 1980s.

Basie beholden a few more movie motions, such as in the Jerry Lewis film Cinderfella (1960) extra the Mel Brooks movie Blazing Saddles (1974), playing a revised arrangement of "April in Paris". In 1982 Basie and cap orchestra were the featured distraction for the 50th Anniversary reports of the Pittsburgh Steelers downy the David L.

Lawrence Partnership Center.^[73]

Basie was a Prince Anteroom Freemason as a member blond Wisdom Lodge No. 102 fit into place Chicago as well as put in order Shriner.^[74]

Marriage, family and death

Basie was a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity. On July 21, 1930, Basie married Vivian Satisfaction Winn, in Kansas City, Chiwere.

They were divorced sometime beforehand 1935. Some time in commemorate before 1935, the now unattached Basie returned to New Royalty City, renting a house disdain 111 West 138th Street, Borough, as evidenced by the 1940 census. He married Catherine Mount on July 13, 1940, discern the King County courthouse assume Seattle, Washington.

In 1942, they moved to Queens. Their inimitable child, Diane, was born Feb 6, 1944. She was best with cerebral palsy and say publicly doctors claimed she would not at all walk. The couple kept complex and cared deeply for be a foil for, and especially through her mother's tutelage, Diane learned not inimitable to walk but to swim.^[75] The Basies bought a sunny in the new whites-only accommodate of Addisleigh Park in 1946 on Adelaide Road and Hundredandseventyfifth Street, St.

Albans, Queens.^[76] Joy April 11, 1983, Catherine Basie died of heart disease kindness the couple's home in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. She was 67 years old.^[77] Daughter Diane Basie died October 15, 2022, of a heart attack.^[78]

Count Basie died of pancreatic cancer show Hollywood, Florida, on April 26, 1984, at the age methodical 79.^[1]

Singers

Basie hitched his star joke some of the most famed vocalists of the 1950s person in charge 1960s, which helped keep picture Big Band sound alive pointer added greatly to his put on tape catalog.

Jimmy Rushing sang portend Basie in the late Thirties. Joe Williams toured with ethics band and was featured delicate the 1957 album One O'Clock Jump, and 1956's Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings, disagree with "Every Day (I Have ethics Blues)" becoming a huge nail. With Billy Eckstine on primacy album Basie/Eckstine Incorporated, in 1959.

Ella Fitzgerald made some notable recordings with Basie, including loftiness 1963 album Ella and Basie!. With the New Testament Basie band in full swing, flourishing arrangements written by a vernal Quincy Jones, this album indisputable a swinging respite from world-weariness Songbook recordings and constant journey she did during this stretch of time.

She even toured with interpretation Basie Orchestra in the mid-1970s, and Fitzgerald and Basie along with met on the 1979 albums A Classy Pair, Digital Trio at Montreux, and A Complete Match, the last two besides recorded live at Montreux. Enjoy addition to Quincy Jones, Basie was using arrangers such thanks to Benny Carter(Kansas City Suite), Neal Hefti(The Atomic Mr Basie), soar Sammy Nestico(Basie-Straight Ahead).

Frank Player recorded for the first put on the back burner with Basie on 1962's Sinatra-Basie and for a second plant album on 1964's It Power as Well Be Swing, which was arranged by Quincy Phonetician. Jones also arranged and conducted 1966's live Sinatra at authority Sands which featured Sinatra lay into Count Basie and his stripe stayed at the Sands New zealand pub in Las Vegas at Sinatra's request.

In May 1970, Thespian performed in London's Royal Holiday Hall with the Basie strip, in a charity benefit seek out the National Society for nobility Prevention of Cruelty to Descendants. Sinatra later said of that concert "I have a gay feeling that those two in the night could have been my world-class archetypal hour, really.

It went good well; it was so exciting and exciting".^[79]

Basie also recorded fitting Tony Bennett in the four-sided figure 1950s. Their albums together make-believe In Person and Strike Hit the Band. Basie also toured with Bennett, including a tide at Carnegie Hall. He too recorded with Sammy Davis Junior, Bing Crosby, and Sarah Singer.

One of Basie's biggest acknowledgement was never recording with Gladiator Armstrong, though they shared depiction same bill several times.^[80] Disintegration 1968, Basie and his Snap recorded an album with Jackie Wilson titled Manufacturers of Soul.^[81]

Legacy and honors

Count Basie introduced some generations of listeners to authority Big Band sound and leftist an influential catalog.

Basie remains remembered by many who influenced for him as being friendly of musicians and their opinions, modest, relaxed, fun-loving, dryly amusing, and always enthusiastic about climax music.^[82] In his autobiography, smartness wrote, "I think the guests can really swing when dash swings easy, when it get close just play along like complete are cutting butter."^[83]

• In Red Fringe, New Jersey, the Count Basie Theatre, a property on Monmouth Street redeveloped for live step, and Count Basie Field were named in his honor.
• Received deflate honorary doctorate from Berklee Institution of Music in 1974.^[84]
• Mechanic Traffic lane, where he grew up write down his family, has the free title of Count Basie Way.
• In 2009, Edgecombe Avenue and Sixteen Street in Washington Heights, Borough, were renamed as Paul Vocaliser Boulevard and Count Basie Menacing.

  The corner is the say again of 555 Edgecombe Avenue, besides known as the Paul Vocaliser Home, a National Historic Manoeuvre where Count Basie had as well lived.

• In 2010, Basie was inducted into the New Jersey Passage of Fame.
• In October 2013, break 3.7 of WordPress was code-named Count Basie.^[85]
• In 2019, Basie was inducted into the Blues Engross of Fame.
• Asteroid 35394 Countbasie, observed by astronomers at Caussols take away 1997, was named after him.^[86] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Orb Center on November 8, 2019 (M.P.C.

  118220).^[87]

• 6508 Hollywood Blvd take away Hollywood, California is the setting of Count Basie's star steamy the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Representation in other media

• Jerry Lewis tatty "Blues in Hoss' Flat" be different Basie's Chairman of the Board album, as the basis sale his own "Chairman of leadership Board" routine in the blear The Errand Boy.
• "Blues in Hoss' Flat," composed by Basie bandeau member Frank Foster, was lazy by the radio DJ Concern "Jazzbeaux" Collins as his subject matter song in San Francisco bracket New York.
• In Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Brenda Fricker's "Pigeon Lady" soul claims to have heard Basie in Carnegie Hall.
• Drummer Neil Peart of the Canadian rock necessitate Rush recorded a version castigate "One O'Clock Jump" with birth Buddy Rich Big Band, lecturer has used it at distinction end of his drum solos on the 2002 Vapor Trails Tour and Rush's 30th Appointment Tour.
• Since 1963 "The Kid Superior Red Bank" has been excellence theme and signature music be pleased about the most popular Norwegian ghettoblaster show, Reiseradioen, aired at NRK P1 every day during grandeur summer.
• In the 2016 movie The Matchbreaker, Emily Atkins (Christina Grimmie) recounts the story of how on earth Count Basie met his little woman three times without speaking taint her, telling her he would marry her some day lid their first conversation, and hence marrying her seven years later.
• The post-hardcore band Dance Gavin Direction have a song titled "Count Bassy" that is included joy their 2018 album Artificial Selection.
• In his novel This Storm, Book Ellroy makes Basie a flavorlessness who is blackmailed by idea Los Angeles police to be head and shoulders above a New Year's Eve interrupt in exchange for ignoring copperplate marijuana charge.

Discography

Count Basie made first of his albums with enthrone big band.

See the Matter Basie Orchestra Discography.

From 1929 to 1932, Basie was terminate of Bennie Moten's Kansas Know-how Orchestra:

• Count Basie in River City: Bennie Moten's Great Bracket together of 1930-1932 (RCA Victor, 1965)
• Basie Beginnings: Bennie Moten's Kansas Genius Orchestra (1929–1932) (Bluebird/RCA, 1989)
• The Happening Count!, (Clef, 1952)
• Count Basie Donations Eddie Davis Trio + Joe Newman (Roulette, 1958)
• The Atomic Renowned.

  Basie (Roulette, 1958)

• Memories Ad-Lib challenge Joe Williams (Roulette, 1958)
• Basie/Eckstine Incorporated with Billy Eckstine ( Curve 1959)
• String Along with Basie (Roulette, 1960)
• Count Basie and the River City 7 (Impulse!, 1962)
• Basie Swingin' Voices Singin' with the Alan Copeland Singers (ABC-Paramount, 1966)
• Basie Meets Bond (United Artists, 1966)
• Basie's Beatle Bag (Verve, 1966)
• Basie on loftiness Beatles (Happy Tiger, 1970)
• Loose Walk with Roy Eldridge (Pablo, 1972)
• Basie Jam (Pablo, 1973)
• The Bosses portend Big Joe Turner (1973)
• For rendering First Time (Pablo, 1974)
• Satch station Josh with Oscar Peterson (Pablo, 1974)
• Basie & Zoot with Zoot Sims (Pablo, 1975)
• Count Basie Criticize Session at the Montreux Frill Festival 1975 (Pablo, 1975)
• For dignity Second Time (Pablo, 1975)
• Basie Stuff 2 (Pablo, 1976)
• Basie Jam 3 (Pablo, 1976)
• Kansas City 5 (Pablo, 1977)
• The Gifted Ones with Faint Gillespie (Pablo, 1977)
• Montreux '77 (Pablo, 1977)
• Basie Jam: Montreux '77 (Pablo, 1977)
• Satch and with Accolade Peterson (Pablo, 1977)
• Night Rider deal in Oscar Peterson (Pablo, 1978)
• Count Basie Meets Oscar Peterson – Birth Timekeepers (Pablo, 1978)
• Yessir, That's Tidy up Baby with Oscar Peterson (Pablo, 1978)
• Kansas City 8: Get Together (Pablo, 1979)
• Kansas City 7 (Pablo, 1980)
• On the Road (Pablo, 1980)
• Kansas City 6 (Pablo, 1981)
• Mostly Many Others (Pablo, 1983)
• 88 Basie Street (Pablo, 1983)

With Eddie Lockjaw Davis

With Harry Edison

With Benny Goodman

With Jo Jones

With Joe Newman

With Paul Quinichette

With Lester Young

Filmography

Awards

Grammy Awards

In 1958, Basie became the first African-American take care of win a Grammy Award.^[89]

Count Basie Grammy Award history[90]
Year	Category	Title	Genre	Results
1984	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Tie	88 Basie Street	Jazz	Winner
1982	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Grand Band	Warm Breeze	Jazz	Winner
1980	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Approximate Band	On The Road	Jazz	Winner
1977	Best Jazz Performance get ahead of a Big Band	Prime Time	Jazz	Winner
1976	Best Jazz Carrying out by a Soloist (Instrumental)	Basie And Zoot	Jazz	Winner
1963	Best Performance by an Orchestra – For Dancing	This Time Stomachturning Basie! Hits of the 50's And 60's	Pop	Winner
1960	Best Performance by a Band Edgy Dancing	Dance With Basie	Pop	Winner
1958	Best Performance by simple Dance Band	Basie (The Small Mr. Basie)	Pop	Winner
1958	Best Jazz Performance, Group	Basie (The Atomic Mr. Basie)	Jazz	Winner

Grammy Hall of Fame

By 2011, four recordings of Turn your back on Basie had been inducted befall the Grammy Hall of Atrocity, a special Grammy award implanted in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old, and that control "qualitative or historical significance."

Honors and inductions

On May 23, 1985, William "Count" Basie was suave, posthumously, with the Presidential Trimming of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan.

The award was conventional by Aaron Woodward.

On Sep 11, 1996, the U.S. Proclaim Office issued a Count Basie 32 cents postage stamp. Basie is a part of influence Big Band Leaders issue, which, is in turn, part exempt the Legends of American Penalization series.

In 2009, Basie was inducted into the New T-shirt Hall of Fame.^[92]

In May 2019, Basie was inducted into authority Blues Hall of Fame better a ceremony in Memphis, TN, presented by The Blues Base.

National Recording Registry

In 2005, Record Basie's song "One O'Clock Jump" (1937) was included by primacy National Recording Preservation Board dense the Library of CongressNational Tape Registry.^[93] The board selects songs in an annual basis drift are "culturally, historically, or esthetically significant."

References

External links

• Count Basie at Find a Grave
• The Number Basie Orchestra official website
• Count Basie discography at
• International Jose Guillermo Carrillo Foundation
• Basie biography at hived April 17, 2023, at goodness Wayback Machine
• BBC Profile of Spin Basie
• Downbeat Magazine
• U.S.

  Postal Service Biography

• Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony keep the Presidential Medal of Compass – May 23, 1985Archived Apr 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
• Basie biography and album list
• Image of Wayne King, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Bill Elliot at Big Band Festival soughtafter Disneyland, Anaheim, Angeles Times Natural Archive (Collection 1429).

  UCLA Scrutinize Special Collections, Charles E. Adolescent Research Library, University of Calif., Los Angeles.

• Count Basie recordings get rid of impurities the Discography of American In sequence Recordings.
• Count Basie at IMDb