Author: Raymond HorricksPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Count Basie and His Orchestra, Its Music and Its Musicians
Author: Raymond HorricksPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Count Basie and His Orchestra
Author: Raymond HorricksCount Basie
Author: Joanne MatternPublisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1612283462
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
In the 1930s and 1940s, Count Basie and His Orchestra were at the top of big band game. Their hit “One O’Clock Jump” made them dance favorites, with other bands playing their piece and copying their sounds. A gifted piano player, William Basie began his music career playing the piano to accompany silent movies. His talent took him to Kansas City and then all over the United States as he entertained audiences with his unique style of piano playing and jazz rhythms. He rose to fame as “Count Basie” and became one of the most important and influential jazz musicians of the twentieth century. Follow his exciting life and career and discover how the Count changed jazz in this entertaining biography of an American music legend.
Count Basie and His Orchertra,its Music and Its Musicians
Author: Raymond HorricksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Count Basie and His Orchestra, Its Music and Its Musicians ; With Discography by Alun Morgan
Author: Raymond HorricksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American jazz musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Count Basie
Author: Bud KlimentPublisher: Holloway House Publishing
ISBN: 9780870677762
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Examines the life and career of a famous twentieth-century jazz musician.
Good Morning Blues
Author: Count BasiePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452953201
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Count Basie was one of America’s pre-eminent and influential jazz pianists, bandleaders, and composers, known for such classics as “Jumpin’ at the Woodside,” “Goin’ to Chicago Blues,” “Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today,” and “One O’Clock Jump.” In Good Morning Blues, Basie recounts his life story to Albert Murray, from his childhood years playing ragtime with his own pickup band at dances and pig roasts, to his years in New York City in search of opportunity, to rollicking anecdotes of Basie’s encounters with Fats Waller, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Sammy Davis Jr., Quincy Jones, Billie Holliday, and Tony Bennett. In this classic of jazz autobiography that was ten years in the making, Albert Murray brings the voice of Count Basie to the printed page in what is both testimony and tribute to an incredibly rich life.
Count Basie and His Orchestra
Author: Count Basie
Author: Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
Book Description
This exhaustively researched work offers detailed information on more than 1,100 recordings spanning 55 years of Count Basie's performances. It also provides extensive cross-referenced listings of tunes, musicians, soloists, and arrangers, and an itinerary of the band's engagements from the time Basie left Kansas City in 1936 to his death in 1984. The main text consists of chronologically arranged, annotated entries on five different categories of recordings: commercial sessions, electrical transcriptions for use by radio stations, broadcasts recorded privately or held in radio or television archives, films and videos, and location recordings of engagements. The text is enlivened by comments on musical significance, personnel changes, and relevant news events of the day, as well as pertinent anecdotes. An appendix lists all known micro-groove issues of Count Basie performances, cross-referenced to the main text. The band itinerary, contained in a second appendix, provides an account of engagements in clubs and concert halls, at jazz festivals and racetracks, and even aboard ocean liners. A wealth of cross-referenced material is contained in five separate indexes covering all known films and videos in which Basie took part; radio and television performances; arrangers whose work has colored the Count Basie orchestra repertoire; musicians, vocalists, and other voices heard in the sessions listed; and tunes played, together with composer, lyricist, and year of composition. The volume also includes a bibliography.
The World Of Count Basie
Author: Stanley DancePublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306802454
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
The late Count Basie is one of the jazz immortals. The master of swing, whose beat was the subtlest and supplest of all the bandleaders, Basie featured some of the great soloists in jazz history while he sat unobtrusively at the piano, keeping time with his unmatched rhythm section, showing off the surging power of his brass players, and commenting wittily with a single chord or phrase. A man and musician of reserve and modesty, Basie nonetheless will always be a landmark for his won achievements and for the jazz musicians who passed through his band. In this sociable and pioneering oral history of Basie and his band, Stanley Dance talks with the Count himself, Jimmy Rushing, Buddy Tate, Buck Clayton, Joe Williams, Jay McShann, Jo Jones, Dicky Wells, Lester Young, and a dozen others, who reminisce about each other, Kansas City jazz, and their legendary peers Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker. With a rich flow of anecdote, opinion, and biographical information—and with striking photographs—this history both documents and assesses the legacy of Basie for American music.