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	Count Basie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was a jazz pianist, organist, and bandleader.
		Basie was born in Red Bank, New Jersey to Harvey Lee Basie, and Lillian Ann Childs.
		Count Basie died of pancreatic cancer in Hollywood, Florida on April 26, 1984 at age 79.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Count_Basie (322 words)

	Basie, William James ("Count")
		The Old Testament band was Basie's aggregation from the mid-1930s through the 1940s; the New Testament band encompasses the Basie band from the early 1950s on.
		Basie is rightly known as a pianist, and his playing remained rooted in the stride tradition of 1920s Harlem.
		Basie spent three years touring with small groups that ranged in size from sextets to nonets, but in 1952, disregarding the conventional wisdom, he decided to re-form his big band.
	archive.blackvoices.com /research/encarta/tt_1141.asp (1115 words)

	Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ06) - Pallone Introduces Resolution Honoring Jazz Musician William "Count" Basie
		Count Basie and the Count Basie Orchestra dominated the swing era in jazz and set the standard for jazz musical ensembles.
		Count Basie is considered one of the premiere big band leaders of the era.
		Count Basie was born on August 21, 1904 in Red Bank, NJ.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/nj06_pallone/pr_sep17_countbasie.html (493 words)

	PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Count Basie
		Count Basie was a leading figure of the swing era in jazz and, alongside Duke Ellington, an outstanding representative of big band style.
		The contract expanded and within a year the Count Basie Orchestra, as it had become known, was one of the leading big bands of the swing era.
		In 1950, financial considerations forced Basie to disband, and for the next two years he led a six- to nine-piece group; among its sidemen were Clark Terry, Buddy DeFranco, Serge Chaloff, and Buddy Rich.
	www.pbs.org /jazz/biography/artist_id_basie_count.htm (586 words)

	ESR \| January 26, 2004 \| Homage to the Count
		William "Count" Basie was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, in 1904, and by the 1920s he was a professional pianist in New York City, learning from another mythic figure, Fats Waller.
		It was in 1936 that the Kansas City-based Count Basie Band emerged; and over the next almost half-century until his death in 1984 it established itself, with the Duke Ellington Band, as one of the two greatest big bands in jazz history.
		Count Basie belonged to a race of titans, a set of figures with names like Count, Fats, Satchmo, and Lady Day, the color and uniqueness of whose musicianship and personalities is the stuff of myth and legend.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0104/0104countbasie.htm (690 words)

	Red Bank, NJ Presents William "Count" Basie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		William Basie was born an only child on August 21, 1904 in Red Bank, New Jersey.
		Basie is quoted as saying it was the "happiest band I've ever been in." The Blue Devils broke up in the early 1930s upon which Basie joined the Bennie Morton Band.
		Count Basie's record contract called for twenty-four sides to be produced with no royalties given to Basie.It also tied Basie to the record company for three more years.
	www.onlinenj.com /celebs/cbasie/basie.htm (617 words)

	MetroActive Music \| Count Basie Orchestra
		She had worked as a barback at the Grove that night in 1983, and though she didn't have any idea who Count Basie was, she lined up to have him sign the poster, which had gathered dust in her garage and which now hangs in my home music studio as a prized possession.
		The Basie band of that era served as the arena in which a pair of titans faced each other in a legendary "cutting contest"--two saxophone icons, the yin and yang of the instrument, playing chorus after chorus of blues to determine who's the best.
		Count Him In: With landmark Kansas City groups in the '30s and '40s and his famed outfits of the '50s and '60s, pianist William 'Count' Basie created a big-band sound that has endured and even thrived long after his death.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/06.14.00/basie-0024.html (2008 words)

	ARTIST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Pianist and bandleader William "Count" Basie inherited leadership of the Bennie Moten band in Kansas City when Moten died in 1935 and turned it into the great streamlined zephyr of the swing era.
		Basie was born Aug. 21, 1904 in Red Bank, N.J., and began his career playing solid stride piano in the manner of James P. Johnson on the fl theater and vaudeville circuit.
		Basie settled into the Reno club in 1936 and began frequent late-night broadcasts, many of which were heard in Chicago by producer and jazz journalist John Hammond.
	www.phoenixcd.com /search/BioInfo.cfm?Biography__Performer=BASIE (682 words)

	Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ06) - House Approves Pallone Bill Recognizing William "Count" Basie
		We at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, where Count Basie was born, are dedicated to keeping his memory and legacy alive.
		Count Basie was born on August 21, 1904 in Red Bank, New Jersey.
		Basie and drummer Sonny Greer were also awarded first place in an Asbury Park piano competition.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/nj06_pallone/pr_sep30_count_basie.html (604 words)

	Reports From a Harmonious Reality: Count Basie 21/8/1904
		William "Count" Basie was one of the greats of 20th century music.
		Basie and the few years older Duke Ellington for several decades towered above everything else in big band jazz and toured the world as ambassadors for the musical heritage of Afro-Americans.
		Basie had seen Oscar Peterson - a good friend and a musician of the same calibre but a quite different style - standing half hidden behind the scene and called him before the curtain and offered him the music stool.
	harmonious-reality.blogspot.com /2004/08/count-basie-2181904.html (181 words)

	WDUQ 90.5 FM - Count Basie Centennial Celebration
		William "Count" Basie was born in Red Bank, New Jersey in 1904, son to mellophonist Harvie Basie and pianist Lillian Basie.
		Basie's bands were often comprised of such contrasting sounds from various ground-breaking artists, that he found "head arrangements," - a series of solos - the best way for his band members to show off their talents.
		Basie was so dedicated to his music that even as his health began to fail, he continued to play jazz, often in a wheelchair.
	www.wduq.org /prog/basie.html (470 words)

	Count Basie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Count Basie, who was born on August 21, 1904, in Red Band, New Jersey, began his music career by playing piano with his mother.
		At this point they became known as Count Basie's Orchestra and also one of the leading bands of the "swing era." Basie developed an "elliptical' style of melodic leads and cues which allowed him to control the band from his keyboard while also blending in with his rhythm section.
		Basie would issue several recordings and tour both Europe and Japan before he was forced into a wheelchair in the 1970s.
	www.duke.edu /~stc2 (439 words)

	The Jazzine - Biographies: Count Basie
		Count Basie, William Basie, was born the 21
		Basie, Rushing and Durham were the first ones to leave the "Blue Devils".
		William Basie, or Bill as he was called by his friends, was one of the greatest musicians and bandleaders of the swing-era and the following years.
	www.jazzine.com /jazzstuff/biographies/count_basie.phtml (399 words)

	Count Basie
		William "Count" Basie was born in New Jersey in 1904 and studied the stride piano style.
		Basie was a smart leader, and showed it in the 1950s, when the Big Band business dried up.
		Basie responded by disbanding his orchestra and forming a sextet and touring.
	airjudden.tripod.com /jazz/countbasie.html (235 words)

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		The Count Basie Orchestra became both the best known and the longest-lived big band to emerge from this region, and Basie made Kansas City jazz nationally and internationally renowned.
		Bill Basie was born in New Jersey and studied the piano with his mother and, informally, with Fats Waller.
		Now an enlarged, thirteen-piece band, by 1937 the Count Basie Orchestra, as it was known, had become one of the leading big bands of the era.
	www.kclibrary.org /localhistory/media.cfm?mediaid=34952 (357 words)

	Music by the Lake 2005 - The Count Basie Orchestra - August 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Hailing back to 1936, when the Count Basie Orchestra first performed at the Reno Club in Kansas City, the orchestra has worked hard to maintain its reputation as “the Swingingest Band in the Land” as declared by jazz critics and fans.
		Basie moved there and after three years as keyboardist for Benny Moten’s band, he assumed the name “The Count” and moved up to the role of bandleader upon Moten’s death.
		The 19 artists who currently comprise the Count Basie Orchestra are committed to the ideals originally put forth by the late William Basie.
	www.aurora.edu /mbtl/artist-countbasie.htm (409 words)

	Count Basie
		Basie stayed with his big band throughout the 1940s, reluctantly giving it up for awhile during the early 1950s in favor of a small group.
		Basie’s mid-1950s big band was like a prism, reflecting the influences of the earlier band and focusing them onto the Basie band of the future.
		Many are from the 1950s, when the Basie big band came back with a vengeance after Count Basie disbanded it for awhile earlier in that decade because of economic reasons.
	www.tuxjunction.net /countbasie.htm (999 words)

	Jazz Concert Review - The Count Basie Orchestra is A National Treasure@ jazzreview.com
		From 1935 until his death on April 26, 1984, Count Basie was considered by many to be one of the most influential individuals in the realm of big band, swing and blues music.
		When Basie died, some critics and fans theorized that his was the end of an era; however, under the direction of such notables as Thad Jones, Frank Foster, Grover Mitchell, Eric Dixon and Bill Hughes, the Count Basie Orchestra continues to thrive after 21 years without Basie's leadership.
		The Count Basie Orchestra's stop in Houston was a reminder of his presence and skill.
	www.jazzreview.com /articledetails.cfm?ID=4064 (687 words)

	NEA Jazz Masters William "Count"Basie
		Though a pianist and occasional organist by trade, Count Basie’s notoriety stems mainly from his history as one of the great bandleaders.
		Basie’s first teacher was his mother, who taught him piano and music as a child.
		Basie’s organ lessons with Waller served him well when he worked in a theater accompanying silent films.
	www.iaje.org /bio.asp?ArtistID=56 (677 words)

	Kimmel Center, Inc. > News Releases > Legendary Count Basie Orchestra to Perform on Kimmel Center’s Mellon Jazz ...
		The Count Basie Orchestra, the classic swing and jazz orchestra devoted to carrying on the legacy of late former bandleader and pianist William “Count” Basie, returns to the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall with special guest vocalist Lizz Wright on Friday, May 6 at 8pm.
		William “Count” Basie, a New Jersey native who landed in Kansas City while working the vaudeville circuit in the 1920s, took the nickname “The Count” shortly after taking over the reigns of The Benny Moten Orchestra.
		Though some of the group’s members are new, The Count Basie Orchestra still continues to produce the same quality of music that has earned them 17 Grammy Awards, numerous Downbeat Critic’s Poll awards, and the opportunity to perform for three Presidents of the United States and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, among others.
	www.kimmelcenter.org /news/item.php?item=2005-04-14 (887 words)

	William Count Basie
		Basie also hired Joe Williams (with whom the group recorded its only hit single, "Everyday I Have the Blues," reaching number two on the RandB charts in 1955), Billie Holiday and Helen Humes to add their unique sounds to the Basie style.
		It was also in 1935 that William picked up his moniker as "Count." Basie once recalled, "One night the announcer called me over to the microphone for those usual few words of introduction.
		Basie was known as the leader of arguably the hardest swinging band of the 1930s and 40s.
	www.duke.edu /~albertk/cps4/class/tap2 (1267 words)

	THE BIOGRAPHY OF COUNT BASIE
		Count Basie's health began deteriorating in 1976 when he suffered a heart attack that put him out of commission for several months.
		In 1958 Count Basie was elected to the Down Beat Hall Of Fame.
		The Basie band was unheralded prior to this event especially by George Simon of Metronome magazine.
	www.swingmusic.net /Count_Basie.html (1269 words)

	Count Basie
		Basie has become synonymous with swing because his band, in all its incarnations, swung harder than any other.
		Basie was born in Red Bank, New Jersey on August 21, 1904.
		Many of Basie's distinctive soloists left the band, and he finally disbanded it in 1950, recording with a small band for a short time.
	www.jazzitude.com /basie_bio.htm (548 words)

	The Basie Centennial Ball
		Count Basie established swing as one of jazz's predominant styles; his contribution to the music and the dance is immeasurable.
		Perhaps Basie's swing hit, "Shorty George", which honors Snowden's distinctive style of dance, is the best testimony to the kinship between his music and our dance.
		In the year that marks the centennial of William (Count) Basie, his genius will be celebrated by reuniting his music with the dance it was once inseparable with.
	www.yehoodi.com /basie100/people.php (435 words)

	Talkin Jazz
		William Count Basie has had such a widespread influence, it can be heard in virtually every big jazz band to date.
		William Count Basie continued to play through the 60s and 70s in a more varied repertoire that included the pop music of the day.
		James Williams, a pianist and onetime member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, died Tuesday, July 20 of complications from liver cancer.
	talkinjazz.blogspot.com (2460 words)

	Jazz Piano Online- Count Basie
		Of all the major big band jazz leaders of both the pre- and post-World War II Periods, it was Count Basie who cultivated one of the warmest relationships with the blues.
		When Count Basie broke up his big band and started working with a septet during the 1940's, he dressed his musicians in uniforms that had seen considerable wear with his old band.
		He called Count Basie "The Holy Main" (shortened by the band to "Holy") because he was the main man, the one from whom the work and the paycheck came.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/Delta/2790/basie.html (2579 words)

	Count Basie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		William "Count" Basie (1904 - 1984) was a great band leader.
		Basie played with groups in the 1920's and '30's.
		Mary Lou Williams and Oscar Peterson were also inspired by Basie.
	afgen.com /count.html (79 words)

	Count Basie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		One by one, the Count brought in trombonists Benny Powell, Henry Coker, and Al Grey, trumpeters Joe Newman and Thad Jones, and the tenor saxophone tandem of Frank Foster and Frank Wess, all modern, bop-inspired improvisors who also were completely at home in the Basie idiom.
		From 1929 to 1935, Basie was the pianist in Bennie Moten’s legendary Kansas City-based territory band.
		Basie’s first band produced a string of jazz classics: “One O’clock Jump,” “Jumpin’ at the Woodside,” “Swingin’ the Blues,” “Down for Double,” etc. Many were collectively worked out “head arrangements,” while others were crafted by such gifted writers as Eddie Durham, Buster Smith, and Buck Clayton.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=834 (970 words)

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