She paid 25 cents a lesson for piano instruction for him. She took in laundry and baked cakes for sale for a living. His father played the mellophone, and his mother played the piano in fact, she gave Basie his first piano lessons. Both of his parents had some type of musical background. After automobiles replaced horses, his father became a groundskeeper and handyman for several wealthy families in the area. His father worked as a coachman and caretaker for a wealthy judge. William Basie was born to Harvey Lee and Lillian Basie in Red Bank, New Jersey. Basie’s theme songs were “ One O’Clock Jump,” developed in 1935 in the early days of his band, and “ April In Paris.” Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Youngand Herschel Evans, the guitarist Freddie Green, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry “Sweets” Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two “split” tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their sound, and others. That year Basie formed his own jazz orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. In 1929 he joined Bennie Moten‘s band in Kansas City, and played with them until Moten’s death in 1935. In 1924, he went to Harlem, where his performing career expanded he toured with groups to the major jazz cities of Chicago, St.
By 16, he increasingly played jazz piano at parties, resorts and other venues.
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Dropping out of school, he learned to operate lights for vaudeville and to improvise accompaniment for silent films at a local movie theater in his home town of Red Bank, New Jersey. His mother taught him to play the piano and he started performing in his teens. William James “Count” Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. 1941. This is some of the HOTTEST big band swing of the 40s! Don Byas on tenor, Harry “Sweets” Edison & then later Buck Clayton, trumpet, Jo Jones drums.Ĭount Basie – from the 1955 film Rhythm and Blues Revue Swingin’ the Blues, 1941 HOT big band swing jazzĬOUNT BASIE Excerpts from the oddly titled “Dance of the Gremlins” (thanks to mfb25890 & mbdavis10025 for the song I.D.), and “Swingin’ the Blues”, c. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded… 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas… 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
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