#Count Basie

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Happy Black History Month

Black Jazz Musicians

Their names are presented below, in chronological order from top to bottom

Louis Armstrong 1901-1971

Ella Fitzgerald 1917-1996

Duke Ellington 1899-1974

Miles Davis 1926-1991

Billie Holiday 1915-1959

Count Baise 1904-1984

Sarah Vaughn 1924-1990

Nancy Wilson 1937-2018

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Count Basie.

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Frank Sinatra and Count Basie in 60s

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Count Basie, Billie Holiday, and Billy Eckstine back stage at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1962. Eckstine is holding Holiday's chihuahua "Peppy"

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Billy Holiday, Count Basie, God Bless The Child

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"Boogie Woogie Dance Contest" AIR MAIL SPECIAL — 1941 ft. Count Basie and His Orchestra

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Frank, Ella and Count together.

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Count Basie, August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984.

With Duke Ellington. 1961 photo by Don Hunstein.

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power trio

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1956 - Count Basie and his Orchestra - Suède / Sweden

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William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 - April 26, 1984)

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Remembering Count Basie on his birthday #botd 🎵

“If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.”

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Quincy Jones, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra

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Bon Soir 🎹 🎻🎷❤️🆕️

Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra et Scarlett Johansson 🎶 The Best is Yet To Come

Cover Frank Sinatra with Count Basie

(Still Blooming)

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Basie and Lena, Photo by Roy DeCarava, 1957

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Howard Mandel (Editor): Jazz & Blues Encyclopedia (2019)

I bought this Jazz & Blues Encyclopedia at Nashville's National Museum of African American Music, and it's as entertaining and educational as a visit to this incredible museum, should you find yourself in Music City.

Decade by decade, throughout the 20th Century and into the 21st, this comprehensive survey provides detailed descriptions of the music’s evolution in both technical and artistic terms, while putting everything into clear historical and social context.

And it ain't just jazz and blues in the strictest definition, but every possible branch in their family trees, leading into countless other styles of American music, such as R&B, Soul, Funk, Gospel, Doo Wop, and, of course, Rock 'n' Roll and Hip Hop.

Each decade also gets a dedicated description of relevant events, deep dives into a handful of key artists, and capsule biographies of dozens more, both familiar and obscure (depending upon the reader, of course), along with their most important works.

All the while, this incredible trove of invaluable information is presented with a fair, authoritative, scholarly tone, reminiscent of the very best PBS documentaries -- at once dispassionate and oh-so-passionate -- about these timeless artists and their music.

Needless to say, this encyclopedia is highly recommended to find a shelf in every home -- not least as a handy reference book.

Featured Records:

Bessie Smith: The World’s Greatest Blues Singer (1970)

Various Artists: Jazz Abstractions (1960)

Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra: The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 2 (1966)

Nina Simone: Nina Simone Sings the Blues (1967)

Charles Mingus’ Mingus Ah Um (1959)

Miles Davis: Relaxin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet (1958)

Billy Cobham: Spectrum (1973)

Buy from: Amazon