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Arts > Music > Jazz > USA > Count Basie 1904-1984
(L-R) Count Basie and Frank Sinatra backstage in dressing room.
Location: Las Vegas, NV, US
Date taken: 1964
Photograph: John Dominis
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Entertainer Frank Sinatra (rear 2L) and musician Count Basie (rear 3L) posing for group portrait with the Count Basie road band. (Quincey Jones rear L).
Location: Las Vegas, NV, US
Date taken: 1946
Photograph: John Dominis
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William "Count" Basie 1904-1984
jazz pianist whose spare, economic keyboard style and supple rhythmic drive made his orchestra one of the most influential groups of the Big Band era
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Mr. Basie was, along with Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, one of the pre-eminent bandleaders of the Big Band era in the 1930's and 40's.
Mr. Basie's band, more than any other, was the epitome of swing, of jazz that moved with a built-in flowing intensity.
This stemmed primarily from the presence in the rhythm section, from 1937 to the present, of both Mr. Basie on piano and Freddie Green on guitar. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0821.html
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/17/4558166/count-basie-the-essential-count-basie-vol-1-vol-2 http://www.npr.org/2011/06/17/4558112/count-basie-count-basie-swings-joe-williams-sings
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98455135 - December 18, 2008 http://www.npr.org/2008/06/04/91000443/count-basie-the-man-and-his-music-pt-3 http://www.npr.org/2008/05/28/90866824/count-basie-the-man-and-his-music-pt-2 http://www.npr.org/2008/05/21/90652205/count-basie-the-man-and-his-music-pt-1
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3855530 - August 21, 2004
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