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William James "Count" Basie (/ ˈ b eɪ s i /; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) [1] was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording.
The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936. Despite a brief disbandment at the beginning of the 1950s, the band survived long past the big band era itself and the death of Basie in 1984.
The Board of Directors is an LP album by The Mills Brothers with Count Basie and Orchestra. [1] [2] It was released in 1968, was recorded at the A & R Recording Studios in New York City on November 20–21, 1967 with the arrangements and conducting by Dick Hyman, and sound engineering was by Phil Ramone.
April in Paris is an album by pianist/bandleader Count Basie and His Orchestra, his first released on the Verve label, recorded in 1955 and 1956. [1] [2] [3] [4]The title track was included in the soundtrack of the 2008 video game release Grand Theft Auto IV on the fictitious in-game jazz music radio station "JNR 108.5 (Jazz Nation Radio)".
This is the first Count Basie collection to acquire and should be in every jazz collection". [ 2 ] The Penguin Guide to Jazz identified this set as part of their suggested "Core Collection" of essential jazz albums and awarded the compilation a "Crown" signifying a recording that the authors "feel a special admiration or affection for".
The Atomic Mr. Basie (originally called Basie, also known as E=MC 2 and reissued in 1994 as The Complete Atomic Basie) is a 1958 album by Count Basie, featuring the song arrangements of Neal Hefti and the Count Basie Orchestra.