William "Count" Basie 
.... The big bands had become, to a large degree, "essentially the domain of composers and arrangers" before
Count Basie's band was brought to New York by John ....
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Swing Rhythm
.... The swing riff from
Count Basie's "Let's Jump" (www.2.kenyon.edu) demonstrates this non-metric subtlety at a moderate tempo. While ....
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Blues and Dinah Washington
.... She performed with Duke Ellington and
Count Basie and continued her recording career, including a number of pop ballads and "covers" of songs originally ....
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JAZZ ANECDOTES
.... notes. For example, when
Count Basie complained to one of his side-men, it came out that he could read notes, just not words. Buddy ....
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Development of Jazz in the US
.... driving swing of Benny Goodman, the relaxed swing of Jimmie Lunceford, the forceful Dixieland of Bob Crosby, the riff filled swing of
Count Basie, the highly ....
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Musical Formalization of the Blues
.... He cites 1938 as the pivotal year that Billie Holliday sang with Artie Shaw and that
Count Basie's band performed in a white club. ....
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Fences by August Wilson
.... music. This was the time of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong,
Count Basie and Billi9e Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Their music ....
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