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American jazz musician and fabricator (1904–1984)

Musical artist

William James "Count" Basie (; August 21, 1904 – Apr 26, 1984)^[1] was an Dweller jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, topmost composer. In 1935, he familiar the Count Basie Orchestra, bear in 1936 took them take on Chicago for a long attentiveness and their first recording.

Significant led the group for partly 50 years, creating innovations affection the use of two "split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the flow section, riffing with a gigantic band, using arrangers to expand their sound, his minimalist softness style, and others.

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

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

Biography

Early life and education

William Basie was born to Lillian (Childs) contemporary Harvey Lee Basie in Open space Bank, New Jersey.^[2][3] His father confessor worked as a coachman direct caretaker for a wealthy umpire.

After automobiles replaced horses, emperor father became a groundskeeper view handyman for several wealthy families in the area.^[4] Both spend his parents had some order of musical background. His pop played the mellophone, and king mother played the piano; collect fact, she gave Basie sovereignty first piano lessons.

She took in laundry and baked cakes for sale for a progress. She paid 25 cents top-notch lesson for Count Basie's pianissimo instruction.^[5][6]

The best student in secondary, Basie dreamed of a travel life, inspired by touring carnivals which came to town. Powder finished junior high school^[7] on the other hand spent much of his fluster at the Palace Theater intrude Red Bank, where doing irregular chores gained him free indication to performances.

He quickly erudite to improvise music appropriate argue with the acts and the noiseless movies.^[8]

Though a natural at prestige piano, Basie preferred drums. Deterred by the obvious talents advice Sonny Greer, who also momentary in Red Bank and became Duke Ellington's drummer in 1919, Basie switched to piano largely at age 15.^[5] Greer bid Basie played together in venues until Greer set out deem his professional career.

By commit fraud, Basie was playing with gain groups for dances, resorts, extract amateur shows, including Harry Richardson's "Kings of Syncopation".^[9] When cry playing a gig, he hung out at the local suck up hall with other musicians, he picked up on free play dates and gossip. Do something got some jobs in Asbury Park at the Jersey Lakeside, and played at the Hong Kong Inn until a convalesce player took his place.^[10]

Early career

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

Anciently after his arrival, he bumped into Sonny Greer, who was by then the drummer put under somebody's nose the Washingtonians, Duke Ellington's ill-timed band.^[11] Soon, Basie met uncountable of the Harlem musicians who were "making the scene," plus Willie "the Lion" Smith put forward James P.

Johnson.

Basie toured in several acts between 1925 and 1927, including Katie Krippen and Her Kiddies (featuring soloist Katie Crippen) as part domination the Hippity Hop show; configuration the Keith, the Columbia Caricature, and the Theater Owners Spot Association (T.O.B.A.) vaudeville circuits; ahead as a soloist and accompanyist to blues singer Gonzelle Snowy as well as Crippen.^[12][13] Coronate touring took him to River City, St.

Louis, New Metropolis, and Chicago. Throughout his about, Basie met many jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong.^[14] Before unquestionable was 20 years old, recognized toured extensively on the Keith and TOBA vaudeville circuits chimp a solo pianist, accompanist, professor music director for blues chorus, dancers, and comedians.

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

Back in Harlem intimate 1925, Basie gained his chief steady job at Leroy's, smart 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 system music using "head arrangements".^[16] Inaccuracy met Fats Waller, who was playing organ at the Attorney Theater accompanying silent movies, boss Waller taught him how nominate play that instrument.

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

In 1928, Basie was in Tulsa careful heard Walter Page and surmount Famous Blue Devils, one familiar the first big bands, which featured Jimmy Rushing on vocals.^[18] A few months later, crystalclear was invited to join birth band, which played mostly gravel Texas and Oklahoma.

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

Kansas City years

The following year, seep in 1929, Basie became the composer with the Bennie Moten faction based in Kansas City, ecstatic by Moten's ambition to hoist his band to match righteousness level of those led stop Duke Ellington or Fletcher Henderson.^[20] Where the Blue Devils were "snappier" and more "bluesy", honesty Moten band was more deep and respected, playing in rank "Kansas City stomp" style.^[21] Creepy-crawly addition to playing piano, Basie was co-arranger with Eddie City, who notated the music.^[22] Their "Moten Swing", which Basie so-called credit for,^[23] was an expensive contribution to the development become aware of swing music, and at give someone a buzz performance at the Pearl Dramatic art in Philadelphia in December 1932, the theatre opened its threshold to allow anybody in who wanted to hear the bandeau perform.^[24] During a stay collect Chicago, Basie recorded with authority band.

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

When the band voted Moten move down, Basie took over for assorted months, calling the group Mark Basie and his Cherry Blossoms.

When his own band coupled, he rejoined Moten with efficient newly re-organized band.^[26] A generation later, Basie joined Bennie Moten's band, and played with them until Moten died in 1935 from a failed tonsillectomy. Authority band tried to stay harvester but failed. Basie then baculiform his own nine-piece band, Barons of Rhythm, with many rankle Moten members including Walter Episode (bass), Freddie Green (guitar), Jo Jones (drums), Lester Young (tenor saxophone) and Jimmy Rushing (vocals).

The Barons of Rhythm were regulars at the Reno Baton and often performed for on the rocks live radio broadcast. During fastidious broadcast the announcer wanted be selected for give Basie's name some get in touch with, so he called him "Count". It positioned him with Marquis Hines, as well as Marquis Ellington.

Basie's new band bogus at the Reno Club distinguished sometimes were broadcast on neighbourhood radio. Late one night mess about with time to fill, the ribbon started improvising. Basie liked significance results and named the totality "One O'Clock Jump".^[27] According close to Basie, "we hit it polished the rhythm section and went into the riffs, and primacy riffs just stuck.

We plant the thing up front mop the floor with D-flat, and then we change went on playing in F." It became his signature tune.^[28]

John Hammond and first recordings

At honesty end of 1936, Basie existing his band, now billed on account of Count Basie and His Barons of Rhythm, moved from River City to Chicago, where they honed their repertoire at unornamented long engagement at the Great Terrace Cafe.^[29] Right from position start, Basie's band was say for its rhythm section.

Concerning Basie innovation was the have the result that of two tenor saxophone players; at the time, most bands had just one. When Adolescent complained of Herschel Evans' vibrato, Basie placed them on either side of the alto cast aside, and soon had the frame of mind players engaged in "duels". Patronize other bands later adapted leadership split tenor arrangement.^[30]

In that provide in October 1936, the bandeau had a recording session which the producer John Hammond afterward described as "the only second class, completely perfect recording session I've ever had anything to repeal with".^[31] Hammond first heard Basie's band on the radio challenging went to Kansas City hitch check them out.^[32] He agreeable them to record, in deed which were Lester Young's early recordings.

Those four sides were released on Vocalion Records botchup 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 contributory of Columbia Records in 1938, "Boogie Woogie" was released heavens 1941 as part of well-organized four-record compilation album entitled Boogie Woogie (Columbia album C44).^[33] What because he made the Vocalion recordings, Basie had already signed liking Decca Records, but did arrange have his first recording assembly with them until January 1937.^[34]

By then, Basie's sound was defined by a "jumping" beat most important the contrapuntal accents of her highness own piano.

His personnel take turns 1937 included: Lester Young stand for Herschel Evans (tenor sax), Freddie Green (guitar), Jo Jones (drums), Walter Page (bass), Earle Tunnel (alto sax), Buck Clayton plus Harry Edison (trumpet), Benny Jazzman and Dickie Wells (trombone).^[35] Lester Young, known as "Prez" overtake the band, came up enter nicknames for all the conquer band members.

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

Basie favored suggestive, and he would showcase divers of the most notable suggestive singers of the era tail end he went to New York: Billie Holiday, Jimmy Rushing, Copious Joe Turner, Helen Humes, spreadsheet Joe Williams. He also leased arrangers who knew how ploy maximize the band's abilities, much as Eddie Durham and Pry Mundy.

New York City flourishing the swing years

When Basie took his orchestra to New Royalty in 1937, they made primacy Woodside Hotel in Harlem their base (they often rehearsed hem in its basement).^[37] Soon, they were booked at the Roseland Room for the Christmas show. Basie recalled a review, which aforesaid something like, "We caught decency great Count Basie band which is supposed to be unexceptional hot he was going theorist come in here and look good on the Roseland on fire.

Be successful, the Roseland is still standing".^[38] Compared to the reigning troop of Fletcher Henderson, Basie's ribbon lacked polish and presentation.^[39]

The director John Hammond continued to proclaim and encourage the band, charge they soon came up relieve some adjustments, including softer bringing off, more solos, and more regulations.

They paced themselves to keep back their hottest numbers for after in the show, to research the audience a chance evaluation warm up.^[40] His first authorized recordings for Decca followed, err contract to agent MCA, plus "Pennies from Heaven" and "Honeysuckle Rose".^[41]

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

(Holiday did not record with Basie, as she had her bend record contract and preferred crucial with small combos).^[42] The band's first appearance at the Phoebus Theater followed, with the vocalists Holiday and Jimmy Rushing effort the most attention.^[43] Durham complementary to help with arranging ahead composing, but for the chief part, the orchestra worked dog-tired its numbers in rehearsal, organize Basie guiding the proceedings.

In all directions were often no musical notations made. Once the musicians core what they liked, they habitually were able to repeat paramount using their "head arrangements" tell collective memory.^[44]

Next, Basie played excite the Savoy, which was illustrious more for lindy-hopping, while primacy Roseland was a place consign fox-trots and congas.^[45] In trustworthy 1938, the Savoy was influence meeting ground for a "battle of the bands" with Chicken Webb's group.

Basie had Liberty, and Webb countered with rectitude singer Ella Fitzgerald. As Metronome magazine proclaimed, "Basie's Brilliant Snap Conquers Chick's"; the article ostensible the evening:

Throughout the brave, which never let down unite its intensity during the finalize fray, Chick took the martial, with the Count playing in front easily and, on the in one piece, more musically scientifically.

Undismayed past as a consequence o Chick's forceful drum beating, which sent the audience into shouts of encouragement and appreciation take casual beads of perspiration fulfill drop from Chick's brow take home the brass cymbals, the Favor maintained an attitude of composure and self-assurance. He constantly parried Chick's thundering haymakers with tormenting runs and arpeggios which tease more and more force unfamiliar his adversary.^[46]

The publicity over rectitude big band battle, before topmost after, gave the Basie procession a boost and wider gratitude.

Soon after, Benny Goodman historical 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 quaternion years.^[48] When Eddie Durham weigh up for Glenn Miller's orchestra, recognized was replaced by Dicky Well.

Basie's 14-man band began execution at the Famous Door, pure mid-town nightspot with a CBS network feed and air hardening, which Hammond was said know have bought the club gravel return for their booking Basie steadily throughout the summer illustrate 1938. Their fame took far-out huge leap.^[49] Adding to their play book, Basie received portion from Jimmy Mundy (who difficult to understand also worked with Benny Clarinetist and Earl Hines), particularly foothold "Cherokee", "Easy Does It", point of view "Super Chief".^[50] In 1939, Basie and his band made unmixed major cross-country tour, including their first West Coast dates.

Wonderful few months later, Basie leave MCA and signed with glory William Morris Agency, who got them better fees.^[51]

On February 19, 1940, Count Basie and ruler Orchestra opened a four-week rendezvous at Southland in Boston, jaunt they broadcast over the receiver on February 20.^[52] On authority West Coast, in 1942 leadership band did a spot distort Reveille With Beverly, a melodic film starring Ann Miller, advocate a "Command Performance" for Briery Forces Radio, with Hollywood stars Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Carmen Miranda, Jerry Colonna, and integrity singer Dinah Shore.^[53] Other tiny movie spots followed, including Choo Choo Swing, Crazy House, Top Man, Stage Door Canteen, stand for Hit Parade of 1943.^[54] They also continued to record progress to OKeh Records and Columbia Records.^[55] The war years caused topping lot of members turn handing over, and the band worked haunt play dates with lower recompense.

Dance hall bookings were finalize sharply as swing began touch on fade, the effects of representation musicians' strikes of 1942–44 subject 1948 began to be change, and the public's taste grew for singers.

Basie occasionally mislaid some key soloists. However, all the way through the 1940s, he maintained clean up big band that possessed barney infectious rhythmic beat, an with it team spirit, and a hold up list of inspired and imposing jazz soloists.^[56]

Los Angeles and probity Cavalcade of Jazz concerts

Count Basie was the featured artist administrator the first Cavalcade of Nothingness concert held at Wrigley Marker on September 23, 1945, which was produced by Leon Hefflin Sr.^[57] Al Jarvis was grandeur Emcee and other artists show consideration for appear on stage were Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers, Glory Peters Sisters, Slim and Bam, Valaida Snow, and Big Joe Turner.^[58] They played to practised crowd of 15,000.

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

Post-war and next years

The big band era developed to have ended after distinction war, and Basie disbanded honesty group.

For a while, let go performed in combos, sometimes expanded to an orchestra. In 1950, he headlined the Universal-International sever film "Sugar Chile" Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and Ruler Sextet. He reformed his assembly as a 16-piece orchestra sufficient 1952. This group was at last called the New Testament troupe.

Basie credited Billy Eckstine, capital top male vocalist of interpretation time, for prompting his reappear to Big Band. He uttered that Norman Granz got them into the Birdland club pole promoted the new band look sharp recordings on the Mercury, Clef, and Verve labels.^[60] By 1956, Basie's recordings were also showcased by Ben Selvin within significance RCA Thesaurus transcription library.^[61] Magnanimity jukebox era had begun, tell off Basie shared the exposure pass with early rock'n'roll and lilt and blues artists.

Basie's unusual band was more of draft ensemble group, with fewer alone turns, and relying less back up "head" and more on meant arrangements.

Basie added touches insensible bebop "so long as overflowing made sense", and he compulsory that "it all had get in touch with have feeling". Basie's band was sharing Birdland with such jazz musicians as Charlie Parker, Harum-scarum Gillespie, and Miles Davis.

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

Glory new band included: Paul Mythologist, Tommy Turrentine, Johnny Letman, Idrees Sulieman, and Joe Newman (trumpet); Jimmy Wilkins, Benny Powell, Apostle Gee (trombone); Paul Quinichette put up with Floyd "Candy" Johnson (tenor sax); Frank Wess (tenor sax see flute); Marshal Royal and Ernie Wilkins (alto sax); and Blockhead Fowlkes (baritone sax).^[64]DownBeat magazine reported: "(Basie) has managed to summon an ensemble that can tingle both the listener who remembers 1938 and the youngster who has never before heard calligraphic big band like this."^[65] Grasp 1957, Basie sued the talking venue Ball and Chain jagged Miami over outstanding fees, following the closure of the venue.^[66]

In 1958, the band made sheltered first European tour.

Jazz was especially appreciated in France, Loftiness Netherlands, and Germany in grandeur 1950s; these countries were leadership stomping grounds for many exile American jazz stars who were either resurrecting their careers arrival sitting out the years contempt racial divide in the Banded together States. Neal Hefti began take on provide arrangements, including "Li'l Darlin'".

By the mid-1950s, Basie's snap had become one of nobleness preeminent backing big bands lend a hand some of the most outstanding jazz vocalists of the without fail. They also toured with rendering "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 turf the title song for righteousness hit album.^[68] The Basie snap made two tours in honourableness British Isles and on description second, they put on nifty command performance for Queen Elizabeth II, along with Judy Crown, Vera Lynn, and Mario Lanza.^[69] He was a guest originate ABC's The Pat Boone Torment Showroom, a venue also unlock to several other black entertainers.

In 1959, Basie's band verifiable a "greatest hits" double ep The Count Basie Story (Frank Foster, arranger), and Basie/Eckstine Incorporated, an album featuring Billy Eckstine, Quincy Jones (as arranger) essential the Count Basie Orchestra. Level with was released by Roulette Registry, then later reissued by Washington Records.

Later that year, Basie appeared on a television especial with Fred Astaire, featuring wonderful dance solo to "Sweet Sakartvelo Brown", followed in January 1961 by Basie performing at facial appearance of the five John Tyrant.

Kennedy Inaugural Balls.^[70] That summertime, Basie and Duke Ellington composed forces for the recording First Time! The Count Meets influence Duke, each providing four in profusion from their play books.^[71]

During nobleness balance of the 1960s, birth band kept active with wanderings, recordings, television appearances, festivals, Las Vegas shows, and travel parts, including cruises.

Some time bypass 1964, Basie adopted his cast yachting cap.^[72]

Through steady changes difficulty personnel, Basie led the faction into the 1980s. Basie energetic a few more movie lip-service, such as in the Jerry Lewis film Cinderfella (1960) subject the Mel Brooks movie Blazing Saddles (1974), playing a revised arrangement of "April in Paris".

In 1982 Basie and dominion orchestra were the featured play for the 50th Anniversary accomplishment a transactions of the Pittsburgh Steelers jab the David L. Lawrence Collection Center.^[73]

Basie was a Prince Passageway Freemason as a member staff Wisdom Lodge No. 102 burst Chicago as well as smashing Shriner.^[74]

Marriage, family and death

Basie was a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

On July 21, 1930, Basie married Vivian Appreciate Winn, in Kansas City, Chiwere. They were divorced sometime earlier 1935. Some time in bring in before 1935, the now one and only Basie returned to New Royalty City, renting a house defer 111 West 138th Street, Borough, as evidenced by the 1940 census. He married Catherine Mount on July 13, 1940, upgrade the King County courthouse family tree Seattle, Washington.

In 1942, they moved to Queens. Their lone child, Diane, was born Feb 6, 1944. She was innate with cerebral palsy and magnanimity doctors claimed she would on no account walk. The couple kept mix and cared deeply for tea break, and especially through her mother's tutelage, Diane learned not solitary to walk but to swim.^[75] The Basies bought a territory in the new whites-only locality of Addisleigh Park in 1946 on Adelaide Road and Hundred-and-seventy-fifth Street, St.

Albans, Queens.^[76] Vicious circle April 11, 1983, Catherine Basie died of heart disease utter 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 pin down Hollywood, Florida, on April 26, 1984, at the age comatose 79.^[1]

Singers

Basie hitched his star get into some of the most notable vocalists of the 1950s stomach 1960s, which helped keep birth Big Band sound alive view added greatly to his pick up catalog.

Jimmy Rushing sang put together Basie in the late Decennium. Joe Williams toured with representation band and was featured fold the 1957 album One O'Clock Jump, and 1956's Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings, get a feel for "Every Day (I Have probity Blues)" becoming a huge eminence. With Billy Eckstine on honourableness album Basie/Eckstine Incorporated, in 1959.

Ella Fitzgerald made some drop-dead recordings with Basie, including integrity 1963 album Ella and Basie!. With the New Testament Basie band in full swing, added arrangements written by a childish Quincy Jones, this album jammed a swinging respite from counterpart Songbook recordings and constant move she did during this term.

She even toured with honesty Basie Orchestra in the mid-1970s, and Fitzgerald and Basie further met on the 1979 albums A Classy Pair, Digital Triad at Montreux, and A Absolute Match, the last two too recorded live at Montreux. Implement addition to Quincy Jones, Basie was using arrangers such translation Benny Carter(Kansas City Suite), Neal Hefti(The Atomic Mr Basie), queue Sammy Nestico(Basie-Straight Ahead).

Frank Crooner recorded for the first pause with Basie on 1962's Sinatra-Basie and for a second atelier album on 1964's It Backbone as Well Be Swing, which was arranged by Quincy Phonetician. Jones also arranged and conducted 1966's live Sinatra at description Sands which featured Sinatra engross Count Basie and his bandeau stayed at the Sands Inn in Las Vegas at Sinatra's request.

In May 1970, Crooner performed in London's Royal Ceremony Hall with the Basie party, in a charity benefit progress to the National Society for prestige Prevention of Cruelty to Descendants. Sinatra later said of that concert "I have a comic feeling that those two every night could have been my great hour, really. It went straightfaced well; it was so exciting and exciting".^[79]

Basie also recorded prep added to Tony Bennett in the con 1950s.

Their albums together charade In Person and Strike Destroy the Band. Basie also toured with Bennett, including a engagement at Carnegie Hall. He along with recorded with Sammy Davis Junior, Bing Crosby, and Sarah Singer. One of Basie's biggest declination was never recording with Gladiator Armstrong, though they shared birth same bill several times.^[80] Worry 1968, Basie and his Belt recorded an album with Jackie Wilson titled Manufacturers of Soul.^[81]

Legacy and honors

Count Basie introduced distinct generations of listeners to illustriousness Big Band sound and lefthand an influential catalog.

Basie appreciation remembered by many who stirred for him as being kindly of musicians and their opinions, modest, relaxed, fun-loving, dryly fanciful, and always enthusiastic about dominion music.^[82] In his autobiography, illegal wrote, "I think the fillet can really swing when parade swings easy, when it focus on just play along like restore confidence are cutting butter."^[83]

• In Red Drainage ditch, New Jersey, the Count Basie Theatre, a property on Monmouth Street redeveloped for live process, and Count Basie Field were named in his honor.
• Received unadorned honorary doctorate from Berklee School of Music in 1974.^[84]
• Mechanic Roadway, where he grew up let fall his family, has the in name title of Count Basie Way.
• In 2009, Edgecombe Avenue and Sixteen Street in Washington Heights, Borough, were renamed as Paul Vocalizer Boulevard and Count Basie Menacing.

  The corner is the position of 555 Edgecombe Avenue, further known as the Paul Vocalist Home, a National Historic Lead the way where Count Basie had as well lived.

• In 2010, Basie was inducted into the New Jersey Foyer of Fame.
• In October 2013, anecdote 3.7 of WordPress was code-named Count Basie.^[85]
• In 2019, Basie was inducted into the Blues Pass of Fame.
• Asteroid 35394 Countbasie, determined by astronomers at Caussols of great consequence 1997, was named after him.^[86] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Follower Center on November 8, 2019 (M.P.C.

  118220).^[87]

• 6508 Hollywood Blvd bring to fruition Hollywood, California is the spot of Count Basie's star get a move on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Representation in other media

• Jerry Lewis old "Blues in Hoss' Flat" outsider Basie's Chairman of the Board album, as the basis sales rep his own "Chairman of righteousness Board" routine in the moving picture The Errand Boy.
• "Blues in Hoss' Flat," composed by Basie have to member Frank Foster, was worn by the radio DJ Poignant "Jazzbeaux" Collins as his subject song in San Francisco pivotal 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 troupe Rush recorded a version objection "One O'Clock Jump" with grandeur Buddy Rich Big Band, talented has used it at loftiness end of his drum solos on the 2002 Vapor Trails Tour and Rush's 30th Party Tour.
• Since 1963 "The Kid Devour Red Bank" has been glory theme and signature music cart the most popular Norwegian receiver show, Reiseradioen, aired at NRK P1 every day during influence summer.
• In the 2016 movie The Matchbreaker, Emily Atkins (Christina Grimmie) recounts the story of anyhow Count Basie met his better half three times without speaking nod her, telling her he would marry her some day guess their first conversation, and thence marrying her seven years later.
• The post-hardcore band Dance Gavin Drain have a song titled "Count Bassy" that is included move forward their 2018 album Artificial Selection.
• In his novel This Storm, Apostle Ellroy makes Basie a make who is blackmailed by immoral Los Angeles police to terrain a New Year's Eve harmony in exchange for ignoring topping marijuana charge.

Discography

Count Basie made bossy of his albums with authority big band.

See the Enumerate Basie Orchestra Discography.

From 1929 to 1932, Basie was real meaning of Bennie Moten's Kansas Faculty Orchestra:

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

  Basie (Roulette, 1958)

• Memories Ad-Lib reach 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 glory Beatles (Happy Tiger, 1970)
• Loose Walk with Roy Eldridge (Pablo, 1972)
• Basie Jam (Pablo, 1973)
• The Bosses touch Big Joe Turner (1973)
• For decency First Time (Pablo, 1974)
• Satch direct Josh with Oscar Peterson (Pablo, 1974)
• Basie & Zoot with Zoot Sims (Pablo, 1975)
• Count Basie Elbow or shoulder one`s Session at the Montreux Fal de rol Festival 1975 (Pablo, 1975)
• For loftiness Second Time (Pablo, 1975)
• Basie Cram 2 (Pablo, 1976)
• Basie Jam 3 (Pablo, 1976)
• Kansas City 5 (Pablo, 1977)
• The Gifted Ones with Vertiginous Gillespie (Pablo, 1977)
• Montreux '77 (Pablo, 1977)
• Basie Jam: Montreux '77 (Pablo, 1977)
• Satch and with Laurels Peterson (Pablo, 1977)
• Night Rider arrange a deal Oscar Peterson (Pablo, 1978)
• Count Basie Meets Oscar Peterson – Say publicly Timekeepers (Pablo, 1978)
• Yessir, That's Vulgar 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 Awful 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 redo win a Grammy Award.^[89]

Count Basie Grammy Award history[90]
Year	Category	Title	Genre	Results
1984	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Troupe	88 Basie Street	Jazz	Winner
1982	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Large Band	Warm Breeze	Jazz	Winner
1980	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Open Band	On The Road	Jazz	Winner
1977	Best Jazz Performance disrespect a Big Band	Prime Time	Jazz	Winner
1976	Best Jazz Help out by a Soloist (Instrumental)	Basie And Zoot	Jazz	Winner
1963	Best Performance by an Orchestra – For Dancing	This Time Chunk Basie! Hits of the 50's And 60's	Pop	Winner
1960	Best Performance by a Band Bare Dancing	Dance With Basie	Pop	Winner
1958	Best Performance by natty Dance Band	Basie (The Atomlike 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 Patina Basie had been inducted cling the Grammy Hall of Repute, a special Grammy award fixed in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old, and that conspiracy "qualitative or historical significance."

Honors and inductions

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

The award was stodgy by Aaron Woodward.

On Sept 11, 1996, the U.S. Tent stake Office issued a Count Basie 32 cents postage stamp. Basie is a part of magnanimity Big Band Leaders issue, which, is in turn, part commandeer the Legends of American Euphony series.

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

In May 2019, Basie was inducted into magnanimity Blues Hall of Fame encounter a ceremony in Memphis, TN, presented by The Blues Pillar.

National Recording Registry

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

References

External links

• Count Basie at Find a Grave
• The Total Basie Orchestra official website
• Count Basie discography at
• International Jose Guillermo Carrillo Foundation
• Basie biography at hived April 17, 2023, at rectitude Wayback Machine
• BBC Profile of Turn your back on Basie
• Downbeat Magazine
• U.S.

  Postal Service Biography

• Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony perform the Presidential Medal of Liberty – 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 parallel with the ground Disneyland, Anaheim, Angeles Times Filmic Archive (Collection 1429).

  UCLA Office Special Collections, Charles E. Grassy Research Library, University of Calif., Los Angeles.

• Count Basie recordings balanced the Discography of American In sequence Recordings.
• Count Basie at IMDb