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The Count Basie Theatre is an historic landmark that operates as a theatre for performing arts in Red Bank, New Jersey. It opened as the Carlton Theater in 1926 and was renamed in 1984 to honor jazz great and Red Bank native William “Count” Basie. It has seating capacity for 1,543 patrons. The Count Basie Theatre box office is the only official ticketing outlet for Count Basie Theatre presented shows.
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Hollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California - situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym of American cinema, and is often interchangeably used to refer to the greater Los Angeles area in general. The nicknames StarStruck Town and Tinseltown refer to Hollywood and its movie industry. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production, and lighting companies remain in Hollywood, as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Al Killian
Al Killian (October 15, 1916 – September 5, 1950) was an American jazz trumpet player and occasional bandleader during the big band era, also known for playing jump blues and East Coast blues. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Ann Miller
Johnnie Lucille Collier, better known as Ann Miller (April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004) was an American singer, dancer and actress.
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Artie Shaw
Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He is also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings.
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Ben Webster
Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973), a.k.a. "The Brute" or "Frog," was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist. Webster, born in Kansas City, Missouri, was considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Known affectionately as "The Brute", he had a tough, raspy, and brutal tone on stomps (with his own distinctive growls), yet on ballads he played with warmth and sentiment. Stylistically he was indebted to alto star Johnny Hodges, who, he said, taught him to play his instrument.
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Bennie Moten
Bennie Moten (November 13, 1894 – April 2, 1935) was a noted American jazz pianist and band leader born in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Benny Carter
Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King. In 1958, he performed with Billie Holiday at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival.
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Benny Goodman
In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman (May 30, 1909 - June 13, 1986) led one of the most popular musical groups in America. His January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."
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Benny Morton
Benny Morton (January 31, 1907 – December 28, 1985), born in New York City, was a jazz trombonist most associated with the swing genre. He was praised by fellow trombonist Bill Watrous among others. One of his first jobs was working with Clarence Holiday, and he appeared with Clarence's daughter Billie Holiday towards the end of her life on The Sound of Jazz. In the 1960s he was part of the Jazz Giants band: "Wild" Bill Davison (cornet), Herb Hall (clarinet and alto), Claude Hopkins (piano), Arvell Shaw (bass) and Buzzy Drootin (drums). They toured the U.S. and frequently in Canada where they did some recording for Sackville Records. Towards the end of the 60's he played with an offshoot of the Jazz Giants under the leadership of Drootin, called Buzzy's Jazz Family, with Herman Autrey replacing Davison, Buzzy's nephew Sonny Drootin replacing Hopkins, and Eddie Gibbs replacing Shaw. That stated he is probably best known for his work with Count Basie and Fletcher Henderson.
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Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas.
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Big Joe Turner
Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr., May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." Although he came to his greatest fame in the 1950s with his pioneering rock and roll recordings, particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll", Turner's career as a performer stretched from the 1920s into the 1980s.
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all, she was admired worldwide for her deeply personal, intimate approach to singing.
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Billy Eckstine
William Clarence “Billy” Eckstine (July 8, 1914 – March 8, 1993) was an American singer of ballads and bandleader of the swing era. Eckstine's smooth baritone and distinctive vibrato broke down barriers throughout the 1940s, first as leader of the original bop big-band, then as the first romantic black male in popular music.
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Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. His career stretched more than half a century from 1926 until his death in 1977. Crosby's unique bass-baritone voice made him the best-selling recording artist until well into the rock era, with over half a billion records in circulation.
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Buddy Rich
Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuosic technique, power, groove, and speed.
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Carmen Miranda
Carmen Miranda ( 9 February 1909 – 5 August 1955) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was, by some accounts, the highest-earning woman in the United States and noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in the 1943 movie ''The Gang's All Here''. She is considered the precursor of Brazil's Tropicalismo.
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Charlie Fowlkes
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Charlie Parker
Charles Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), famously called Bird, or Yardbird was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
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Chick Webb
William Henry Webb, usually known as Chick Webb (February 10, 1905–June 16, 1939) was an American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader.
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Clark Gable
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the greatest male stars of all time.
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Dickie Wells
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Dicky Wells
William Wells, (June 10, 1907? - November 12, 1985), more famous under the name of Dicky Wells (sometimes Dickie Wells), was an American jazz trombonist.
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Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality. She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was a composer, pianist, and big band leader.
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Earl Hines
Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl "Fatha" Hines, (December 28, 1903 – April 22, 1983) was "one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz".
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Earle Warren
Earle Warren (1914-1995) was an alto saxophonist and occasional singer with Count Basie.
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Ed Lewis (musician)
Ed Lewis (January 22, 1909 - September 18, 1985) was an American jazz trumpeter.
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Eddie Durham
Eddie Durham (19 August 1906–6 March 1987) was an American jazz guitarist, trombonist, composer and musical arranger of the swing music medium born in San Marcos, Texas, probably best known for his work with musicians like Cab Calloway, Willie Bryant, Andy Kirk, Glenn Miller, Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie, among others. He is the co-composer of the tune "Topsy", recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra and later by many others. He also was the arranger for Glenn Miller's "In the Mood". He is also credited for creating the world's first electric guitar solo with a Gibson ES-150 guitar in 1938.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves (Db3 to Db6), she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
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Ernie Wilkins
Ernest Brooks Wilkins Jr. (July 20, 1922 in St. Louis, Missouri – June 5, 1999 in Copenhagen) was a jazz arranger and writer who also played tenor saxophone. He might be best known for his work with Count Basie. He also wrote for Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Dizzy Gillespie. In addition to that he was musical director for albums by Cannonball Adderley, Dinah Washington, Oscar Peterson, and Buddy Rich.
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Erroll Garner
Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad "Misty", has become a jazz standard. Allmusic.com calls him "one of the most distinctive of all pianists" and a "brilliant virtuoso".
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Fats Waller
Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943), born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer. He was the youngest of four children born to Adaline Locket Waller, wife of the Reverend Edward Martin Waller.
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.
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Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.
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Freddie Green
Frederick William "Freddie" Green (b. March 31, 1911 – d. March 1, 1987) was an American swing jazz guitarist. He was especially noted for his sophisticated rhythm guitar in big band settings, particularly for the Count Basie orchestra, where he was part of the "All-American Rhythm Section" with Basie on piano, Jo Jones on drums, and Walter Page on bass.
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George Shearing
Sir George Shearing, OBE (born August 13, 1919) is an Anglo-American jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group which recorded for MGM Records and Capitol Records. The composer of over 300 titles, he has had multiple albums on the Billboard charts during the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s.
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Glenn Miller
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing December 15, 1944) was an American jazz musician (trombone), arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big bands". Miller's signature recordings include In the Mood, American Patrol, Chattanooga Choo Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug and Pennsylvania 6-5000. While traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. His body has never been found.
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Harry Edison
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Helen Humes
Helen Humes (June 23, 1913 - September 9, 1981) was an American jazz and blues singer.
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Herschel Evans
Herschel "Tex" Evans (March 9, 1909 – February 9, 1939), was a tenor saxophonist who worked in the Count Basie Orchestra. He had also worked with Lionel Hampton and Buck Clayton. He is also known for starting his cousin Joe McQueen's interest in saxophone.
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Idrees Sulieman
Idrees Sulieman (August 7, 1923, in St. Petersburg, Florida – July 23, 2002 in St. Petersburg, FL) was a bop and hard bop trumpeter. He studied at Boston Conservatory, and gained early experience playing with the Carolina Cotton Pickers and the wartime Earl Hines Orchestra (1943–1944). Sulieman was closely associated with Mary Lou Williams for a time and had stints with Cab Calloway, John Coltrane, Count Basie, and Lionel Hampton. Sulieman recorded with Coleman Hawkins (1957) and gigged with Randy Weston (1958–1959), in addition to popping up in many other situations. He went to Europe in 1961 to tour with Oscar Dennard, and then settled in Stockholm, moving to Copenhagen in 1964. A major soloist with The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band from the mid-'60s through 1973, Sulieman frequently worked with radio orchestras. His recordings as a leader were for Swedish Columbia (1964) and SteepleChase (1976 and 1985). In 1985, he played in the big band in Miles Davis' album "Aura," which was released in 1989. Sulieman's career slowed down considerably in the '90s as he aged. He died of bladder cancer on July 23, 2002 at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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James P. Johnson
James P. Johnson [also known as Jimmy Johnson] (February 1, 1894–November 17, 1955) was an American pianist and composer. With Luckey Roberts, Johnson was arguably the most important pioneer of the stride style of jazz piano playing.
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Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (born Jerome Levitch, March 16, 1926) is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, radio, screen, recording and television. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. In addition to the team's popular nightclub work, they starred in a successful series of comedy films for Paramount Pictures. As an innovative filmmaker, Lewis is credited with inventing the video assist system in cinematography. Lewis is also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).
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Jimmy Mundy
Jimmy Mundy (28 June 1907–24 April 1983) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and composer, best known for his arrangements for Benny Goodman, Count Basie and Earl Hines.
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Jimmy Rushing
James Andrew Rushing (August 26, 1901 – June 8, 1972), known as Jimmy Rushing, was an American blues shouter and swing jazz singer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948.
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Jo Jones
:For other persons named Jonathan Jones, see Jonathan Jones
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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John H. Hammond
John Henry Hammond II (December 15, 1910 – July 10, 1987) was an American record producer, musician and music critic from the 1930s to the early 1980s. In his service as a talent scout, Hammond became one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music.
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Johnny Letman
Johnny Letman (September 6, 1917 - July 17, 1992) was an American jazz trumpeter.
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Judy Garland
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Basie, Count Filmography
- Love Letters in the Sands of Time (2010)
- Jazz Giants of the 20th Century (2007)
- Improvisation (2004)
- Harlem Renaissance (2004)
- Strangers in the Night: The Bert Kaempfert Story (2003)
- Georgie Fame 60 år (2003)
- Playboy: The Party Continues (2000)
- The Rat Pack (1999)
- Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years (1998)
- Masters of American Music (1995)
- A Great Day in Harlem (1994)
- Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993)
- Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame (1993)
- The Ladies Sing the Blues (1989)
- Copenhagen Jazz Festival (1985)
- The 5th Annual Black Achievement Awards (1984)
- Sinatra: The Man and His Music (1981)
- Count Basie at Carnegie Hall (1981)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1981)
- The Grammy Hall of Fame (1981)
- The Last of the Blue Devils (1979)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1979)
- The 20th Annual Grammy Awards (1978)
- John Denver and Friend (1976)
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly (1973)
- Timex All Star Swing Festival (1972)
- Black Music in America: From Then Till Now (1971)
- ...And Beautiful II (1970)
- Newport Jazz Festival (1968)
- Made in Paris (1966)
- Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
- Astaire Time (1960)
- Cinderfella (1960)
- Basin Street Revue (1956)
- Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955)
- 'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet (1951)
- Cavalcade of Bands (1950)
- Killer Diller (1948)
- Ebony Parade (1947)
- Crazy House (1943)
- Hit Parade of 1943 (1943)
- Stage Door Canteen (1943)
- Top Man (1943)
- Reveille with Beverly (1943)
- Choo Choo Swing (1942)
- Take Me Back, Baby (1941)
- Air Mail Special (1941)
- Policy Man (1938)
The famed composer ("One O'Clock Jump", "Two O'Clock Jump", "Jumpin' at the Woodside"), pianist, songwriter and bandleader began as an accompanist to vaudeville acts. He joined the Bennie Moten orchestra in Kansas City, later organizing his own orchestra and performing on radio. In 1936 he came to New York, appearing in hotels, night clubs, theatres and jazz festivals. He toured the US, and also, in 1954, Europe. He was elected to the Down Beat Magazine's Hall of Fame in 1958, and has made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1943, his chief musical collaborators included Mack David, Jerry Livingston, James Rushing, Andy Gibson, Eddie Durham, and Lester Young. His songs and instrumentals also include "Good Morning Blues"; "Every Tub"; "John's Idea"; "Basie Boogie"; "Blue and Sentimental"; "Gone With the Wind"; "I Ain't Mad at You"; "Futile Frustration"; "Good Bait"; "Don't You Miss Your Baby?"; "Miss Thing" "Riff Interlude"; "Panassie Stomp: "Shorty George"; "Out the Window"; "Hollywood Jump: "Nobody Knows"; "Swinging at the Daisy Chain"; and "I Left My Baby".
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- Pennies From Heaven
- Please Be Kind
- (Love is) the Tender Trap
- Looking at the World Through Rose Colored Glasses
- My Kind of Girl
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Learnin' the Blues
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
- I Won't Dance
- Buns Blues
- These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
- R.B.
- Burnin'
- Exactly Like You
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Louie B.
- Lester Leaps In
- Big Stockings
- S & J Blues
- Stay Cool
- Rusty Dusty Blues
- Beaver Junction
- B. Flat Blues
- Farewell Blues
- Taps Miller
- Bugle Blues
- Queer Street
- Way Back Blues
- Patience And Fortitude
- St. Louis Blues
- Ride On
- Jimmy's Blues
- Lost In Blackout Blues
- Time On My Hands
- Sweet Lorraine
- It's Sand Man
- Bonus Track
- I Never Knew
- It's Only a Paper Moon
- Blues for Nat Cole
- Captain Bligh
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Hardav
- Mean to Me
- I Surrender, Dear
- 12th Street Rag
- Shine on, Harvest Moon
- Backstage at Stuff's
- Tom Thumb
- What's Your Number
- Ready, Set, Go!
- One O'Clock Boogie
- I Never Knew
- Jivin' Joe Jackson
- Mutton Leg
- Lost the Blackout Blues
- Harvard Blues
- Sophisticated Swing
- Down, Down, Down
- You Can Count on Me
- Sweets
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- The Jungle King
The Complete Clef/Verve Count Basie Fifties Studio Recordings
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- New Basie Blues
- New Basie Blues (45 take)
- Sure Thing
- Why Not?
- Fawncy Meetin' You
- Jive at Five
- No Name
- No Name (78 take)
- Redhead
- Every Tub
- Jack and Jill (alternate take)
- Jack and Jill
- Bread
- Small Hotel
- Hob Nail Boogie
- Basie Talks
- Paradise Squat (take 2)
- Paradise Squat (take 3)
- U.F.O.
- Like a Ship at Sea
- Bunny
- Tippin' on the Q.T. (alternate take)
- Tippin' on the Q.T.
- Blee Blop Blues
- Chicago
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- Anything Goes
- Jeepers Creepers
- Are You Havin' Any Fun
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans
- Life Is a Song
- With Plenty of Money and You
- Growing Pains
- Tickle Toe
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- Louisiana
- Shoe Shine Boy
- Broadway
- Lester Leaps In
- Swing, Brother, Swing
- Boogie Woogie Blues
- Swingin' the Blues
- Roseland Shuffle
- Moten Swing
- Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- I Got Rhythm
- Broadway
- Down for Double
- Lester Leaps In
- Topsy
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Taps Miller
- Shorty George
- Doggin' Around
- Avenue C
- Jive at Five
- Rock-a-bye Basie
- Moten Swing
- Shoe Shine Boy
- Evenin'
- Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- Goin' to Chicago Blues
- Live and Love Tonight
- Love Me or Leave Me
- Dickie's Dream
- Lester Leaps In
- How Long Blues
- Royal Garden Blues
- Bugle Blues
- Sugar Blues
- Farewell Blues
- Cafe Society Blues
- Way Back Blues
- St. Louis Blues
- Neal's Deal
- Bluebeard Blues
- The Golden Bullet
- You're My Baby, You
- Open the Door Richard
- Avenue C
- Blame It on My Last Affair
- Blow Top
- Blue and Sentimental
- Blue Skies
- Blues in the Dark
- Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie
- Dickie's Dream
- Doggin' Around
- Dupree Blues
- Easy Does It
- Every Tub
- Going to Chicago Blue
- Gone With "What" Wind
- High Tide
- How Long, How Long Blues
- I Left My Baby
- Jimmy's Boogie Woogie
- Jive at Five
- John's Idea
- Shoe-Shine Boy
- Evenin'
- Boogie-Woogie
- Oh! Lady Be Good
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- Going to Chicago
- Live and Love Tonight
- Love Me or Leave Me
- What Goes Up Must Come Down
- Rock-A-Bye Basie
- Baby, Don't Tell on Me
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- Taxi War Dance
- Don't Worry About Me
- Jump for Me
- And the Angels Sing
- If I Didn't Care
- Twelfth Street Rag
- Miss Thing, Parts 1 & 2
- Lonesome Miss Pretty
- Bolero at the Savoy
- Nobody Knows
- Pound Cake
- You Can Count on Me
- Cherry Point
- Bubbles
- Right On
- The Blues Done Come Back
- Plymouth Rock
- I Feel Like a New Man
- You for Me
- Soft Drink
- Two for the Blues
- Slow but Sure
- Small Black
- Toby
- Moten Swing
- Lafayette
- Prince of Wails
- One O'Clock Boogie
- Futile Frustration
- Swingin' the Blues
- Lopin'
- I Never Knew
- Seventh Avenue Express
- Bye, Bye, Baby
- Cheek to Cheek
- Just an Old Manuscript
- Shoutin' Blues
- Blee Blop Blues
- One O'Clock Jump
- Topsy
- Every Tub
- Swingin' the Blues
- Blues Backstage
- Eventide
- April in Paris
- Corner Pocket
- Shiny Stockings
- All of Me
- The Second Time Around
- Li'l Ol' Groovmaker Basie
- Count Me In
- Doodle-Oodle
- Li'l Darlin'
- Broadway
- Brand New Wagon
- Swingin' the Blues
- Sugar
- House Rent Boogie
- After You've Gone
- Rat Race
- St. Louis Boogie
- Basie's Basement
- Shoutin' Blues
- She's a Wine-o
- Don't You Want a Man Like Me
- Sophisticated Swing
- 7th Avenue Express
- Bye Bye Baby
- Guest in a Nest
- Robbin's Nest
- Bill's Mill
- Backstage at Stuff's
- The Jungle King
- Shine on Harvest Moon
- Walking Slow Behind You
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- One O'Clock Jump
- Swingin' the Blues
- Topsy
- Every Tub
- Texas Shuffle
- Jive at Five
- Oh! Lady Be Good
- Twelfth Street Rag
- Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!
- Dickie's Dream
- Lester Leaps In
- Tickle Toe
- I Never Knew
- Love Jumped Out
- Super Chief
- Red Bank Boogie
- Rhythm Man
- Take Me Back Baby
- Moon Nocturne
- Something New
- I Struck a Match in the Dark
- Platterbrains
- All of Me
- Feather Merchant
- Down for Double
- More Than You Know
- Harvard Blues
- Coming-Out Party
- One O'Clock Jump
- Blue Shadows and White Gardenias
- 'Ay Now
- For the Good of Your Country
- Basie Blues
- I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
- Time on My Hands
- How Long Blues
- Royal Garden Blues
- Bugle Blues
- Sugar Blues
- Farewell Blues
- Café Society Blues
- Way Back Blues
- In Case You Didn't Know
- These Foolish Things
- Peter Pan
- Ain't It The Truth
- Ingin' the Ooh
- Confessin'
- These Foolish Things (alt. take)
- In Case You Didn't Know (alt. take)
- One O'clock Jump (intro)
- You For Me
- Bubbles
- You're Not The Kind
- Jonesy
- Two For The Blues
- Blee Blop Blues
- Yesterdays
- Perdido
- Tootie
- How Long Blues
- Way Back Blues
- Blues (I Still Think of Her)
- Harvard Blues
- Bugle Blues
- Take Me Back Baby
- The Golden Bullet
- Nobody Knows
- Royal Garden Blues
- I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
- Bluebeard Blues
- Jumpin' At The Woodside
- Blue And Sentimental
- Sent Fot You Yesterday
- Blues In Hoss's Flat
- Who Me?
- Little Pony
- The Leyend
- Goin' To A Chichago Blues
- Lester Leaps In
- Jive At Fire
- Swingin' The Blues
- Shorty George
- Duet
- Double-O
- Splanky
- Miss Missouri
- Meetin' Time
- Stompin' And Jumpin'
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- One O'Clock Jump
- Strormy Monday Blues
- Going to Chicago
- Swinging the Blues
- The King
- Red Bank Boogie
- Every Tub
- Blue and Sentimental
- Basie Goes West
- Lester Leaps In
- Bleep Bleep
- Basie Talk
- Bubbles
- Jazz Me Blues
- John's Idea
- Shorty - George
- Basie Boogie
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- One O'Clock Jump
- Stormy Monday Blues
- Going to Chicago
- Swinging the Blues
- The King
- Red Bank Boogie
- Every Tub
- Lester Leaps In
- Shorty - George
- Blue & Sentimental
- Basie Goes West
- The Kid From Red Bank
- Secret Love
- Cute
- I Cried for You
- Blue and Sentimental
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Meet B.B.
- Teach Me Tonight
- Moten Swing (live)
- One O'Clock Jump (live)
- Whirly-Bird
- Hallelujah (I Love Her So)
- Makin' Whoopee
- Lullaby of Birdland
- If I Were a Bell
- Jackson County Jubilee
- Sunset Glow
- Tickle Toe
- Ol' Man River
- Lil' Darlin'
- Toby
- One O'Clock Jump
- John's Idea
- Topsy
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Swingin' the Blues
- Blue and Sentimental
- Doggin' Around
- Dark Rapture
- Cherokee, Parts 1 & 2
- Goin' to Chicago
- Jive at Five
- 9:20 Special
- Softly, With Feeling
- Corner Pocket
- April in Paris
- Every Day I Have the Blues
- Shiny Stockings
- Li'l Darlin'
- One O'Clock Jump
- Listen My Children and You Shall Hear
- Good Morning Blues (take 1)
- Time Out
- Topsy
- Don't You Miss Your Baby
- Swinging the Blues
- Doggin' Around
- London Bridge Is Falling Down
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Boogie Woogie
- Dark Rapture
- Shorty George
- Panassie Stomp
- Oh! Red
- Red Wagon
- You Can Depened on Me
- Cherokee Part 1
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
- 9:20 Special
- Jeepers Creepers
- Swingin' the Blues
- With Plenty of Money and You
- Shorty George
- Chicago
- Broadway
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- Out the Window
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- Lester Leaps In
- Anything Goes
- Are You Havin' Any Fun?
- Dickie's Dream
- Growing Pains
- Jive at Five
- Life Is a Song
- April in Paris
- Georgianna
- Blues in the Dark
- Sent for You Yesterday
- Every Tub
- Now Will You Be Good
- Swingin' the Blues
- Mama Don't Want No Peas 'N' Rice 'N' Coconut Oil
- Blue and Sentimental
- Doggin' Around
- Stop Beatin' Around the Mulberry Bush [1st take]
- Stop Beatin' Around the Mulberry Bush [2nd take]
- London Bridge Is Falling Down
- Texas Shuffle
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- How Long Blues
- The Dirty Dozens
- Hey Lawdy Mama
- The Fives
- Boogie Woogie
- Dark Rapture
- Shorty George
- The Blues I Like to Hear
- Do You Wanna Jump, Children?
- Panassie Stomp
- My Shining Hour
- Teach Me Tonight
- Work Song
- Why Try to Change Me Now
- Blues for Mr. Charlie
- April in Paris
- New York City Blues
- You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
- Keepin' Out the Mischief Now
- Bill Basie Won't You Please Come Home
- She's a Woman (W-O-M-A-N)
- The Girl From Ipanema
- Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
- I Wish You Love
- I Believe in You
- More (Theme From 'Mondo Cane')
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- Hello, Dolly!
- I Wanna Be Around
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- The Good Life
- Wives and Lovers
- Roots
- Your Red Wagon
- Home Run
- Sweethearts on Parade
- Lil' Darlin'
- Time Is Right, The
- Cherry
- Lester Leaps In
- She's Funny That Way
- Lady Fitz
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- Goin' To Chicago Blues
- Live and Love Tonight
- Love Me Or Leave Me
- Rock-A-Bye Basie
- Baby, Don't Tell On Me
- Taxi War Dance
- Jump For Me
- Twelfth Street Rag
- Miss Thing, Part 1
- Miss Thing, Part 2
- Lonesome Miss Pretty
- Nobody Knows
- Poundcake
- How Long Blues
- Dickie's Dream
- Lester Leaps In
- The Apple Jump
- I Left My Baby
- Volcano
- One O'Clock Jump
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Every Tub
- Blue and Sentimental
- Doggin' Around
- Jive at Five
- Sent for You Yesterday
- You Can Depend on Me
- Texas Shuffle
- I Never Knew
- Tickle Toe
- Louisiana
- 9.20 Special
- Harvard Blues
- Lester Leaps In
- Lady Be Good
- How Long Blues
- Taps Miller
- Moten Swing
- Swingmatism
- 9:20 Special
- Moonlight Becomes You
- Shiny Stockings
- Blues For Me
- Every Tub
- Easy Does It
- Lena and Lenny
- On The Sunny Side Of The Street
- Back To The Apple
- I'll Always Be In Love With You
- Way Out Basie
- St. Louis Blues
- Beaver Junction
- Lester Leaps In
- Blues for the Barbecue
- I Don't Know Yet
- Ain't That Something
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Mr. Softie
- Moten Swing
- She's Funny That Way
- Right on, Right On
- Me and You
- Crip
- Bidge Work
- Easy Living
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Blue And Sentimental
- Taxi War Dance
- John's Idea
- Topsy
- Every Tub
- Swinging The Blues
- Jumpin' At The Woodside
- Boogie Woogie
- How Long Blues
- Panassi Stomp
- Jive At Five
- Lady Be Good
- Doggin' Around
- Texas Shuffle
- Dickie's Dream
- Lester Leaps In
- Tickle Toe
- Red Band Boogie
- Cherokee
- One O'Clock Jump
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Roseland Shuffle
- Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)
- One O'Clock Jump
- John's Idea
- Good Morning Blues
- Topsy
- Out the Window
- Don't You Miss Your Baby?
- Blues in the Dark
- Sent for You Yesterday
- Every Tub
- Swingin' the Blues
- Blue and Sentimental
- Doggin' Around
- Texas Shuffle
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Shorty George
- Panassie Stomp
- Jive at Five
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- What Am I Here For?
- April in Paris
- Jive at Five
- There's a Small Hotel
- Hob Nail Boogie
- Blee Bop Blues
- Basie Talks
- Paradise Squat
- Softly, With Feeling
- Beaver Junction
- Nails
- Did You Ever See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball
- Seventh Avenue Express
- Mr Robert's Roost
- The Mad Boogie
- The King
- Mutton Leg
- Patience and Fortitude
- Wild Bill's Boogie
- Stay Cool
- High Tide (I Ain't Mad at You)
- Jimmy's Boogie Woogie
- Taps Miller
- Straight Life
- Pleasingly Plump
- I'll Always Be in Love With You
- Eventide
- Lady in Lace
- (I Got a Woman, Crazy for Me) She's Funny That Way
- Count Me In
- Lullaby for Jolie
- I Want a Little Girl
- Michelle
- Only the Lonely
- K.C. Organ Blues
- Makin' Whoopee
- Wanderlust
- Blue and Sentimental
- Softly With Feeling
- The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- Louisiana
- Gone With "What" Wind
- Super Chief
- You Betcha My Life
- Down, Down, Down
- I'm Tired of Waiting for You
- Basie Boogie
- Fancy Meeting You
- My Old Flame
- All of Me
- One O'Clock Jump
- The Kid From Red Bank
- Duet
- After Supper
- Flight of the Foo Birds
- Double-O
- Teddy The Toad
- Whirly-Bird
- Midnight Blue
- Splanky
- Fantail
- Li'l Darling
- Silks and Satins
- Sleepwalker Serenade (alternate take)
- Sleepwalker Serenade
- The Late, Late Show
- Boogie Woogie
- Shoe Shine Boy
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- Going to Chicago
- Bolerero at the Savory
- One O'Clock Jump
- Jive at Five
- Straight Life
- How High the Moon
- Men Swinging
- Blee Blop Blues
- Yesterdays
- Swingin' the Blues
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Firm Roots
- Three in one blues
- Hampton strut
- For my lady
- Way out basie
- Clanks
- Basie's bag
- Here's that rainy day
- Count Basie's remembrance suite (Medley)
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Pennies From Heaven
- Swingin' at the Daisy Chain
- Roseland Shuffle
- Exactly Like You
- Boo Hoo
- The Glory of Love
- Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)
- (You Know It All) Smarty
- One O'Clock Jump
- Listen My Children (and You Shall Hear)
- John's Idea
- Good Morning Blues (take 1)
- Good Morning Blues (take 2)
- Our Love Was Meant to Be
- Time Out
- Topsy
- I Keep Remembering
- Out the Window
- Don't You Miss Your Baby
- Let Me Dream
- Big Red
- April in Paris
- Two Franks
- Shiny Stockings
- Royal Garden Blues
- Stereophonic
- Blue and Sentimental
- Every Day I Have the Blues
- Paradise Squat
- Kansas City Wrinkles
- Midgets
- K.C. Organ Blues
- Every Tub
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams
- Sent for You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today)
- One O'Clock Jump
- The Kid From Red Bank
- Duet
- After Supper
- Flight of the Foo Birds
- Double-O
- Teddy the Toad
- Whirlybird
- Midnite Blue
- Splanky
- Fantail
- Lil' Darlin'
- Silks and Satins
- Sleepwalker's Serenade (alternate take)
- Sleepwalker's Serenade
- The Late Late Show
- The Late Late Show (Vocal version)
- The Comeback
- Basie
- Corner Pocket
- Lady In Lace
- Blues for Joe Turner
- Good Time Blues
- Li'l Darlin'
- Big Stuff
- Blue And Sentimental
- Corner Pocket
- The Kid From Red Bank
- The Late Late Show
- Flight of the Foo Birds
- Jive at Five
- Blue and Sentimental
- Lullabye of Birdland
- Cute
- Seque in C
- Topsy
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Broadway
- Tickle Toe
- Scoot
- For Lena and Lennie
- Whirly Bird
- Down for Double
- Easy Money
- Turnabout
- Taps Miller
- Old Man River (from Showboat)
- Every Tub
- Swingin' the Blues
- Blue and Sentimental
- Doggin' Around
- Texas Shuffle
- Shorty George
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Basie's Bag
- Harward Blues
- One O'Clock Jump
- Bubbles
- Jive at Five
- Nails
- Two Franks
- Freckle Face
- Orange Sherbet
- Basie
- Hittin' Twelve
- One O'Clock Jump
- Harvard Blues
- Dickie's Dream
- Lester Leaps In
- I Left My Baby
- Taxi War Dance
- Red Bank Boogie
- Nobody Knows
- Miss Thing
- Tickle Toe
- Don't Worry 'Bout Me
- Moten Swing
- For Lena and Lennie
- Rat Race
- Quince
- Meet B B
- The Big Walk
- A Square at the Roundtable
- I Needs to Be Bee'd With
- Jessica's Day
- The Midnite Sun Never Sets
- Muttnik
- Life Is a Song
- With Plenty of Money and You
- Jeepers Creepers
- Are You Havin' Any Fun
- Anything Goes
- Strike Up the Band
- Chicago
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- Growing Pains
- I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans
- After Supper
- Chicago
- The Lady Is a Tramp
- Day In Day Out
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was
- Hey, Jealous Lover
- Saturday Night
- I Thought About You
- Come Fly With Me
- On the Road to Mandalay
- All of Me
- Idaho
- Blues in My Heart
- I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
- Moonglow
- Sweet Lorraine
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- As Long as I Live
- I've Got the World on a String
- In A Mellotone
- The Midgets
- Whirly Bird
- Basie Boogie
- The Deacon
- Cute
- Old Man River
- The Kid From Red Bank
- Spring Is Here
- Why Not
- Corner Pocket
- Little Pony
- Blee Bop Blues
- The World Is Mad, Part 1
- The World Is Mad, Part 2
- Moten Swing (feat. The Count Basie Orchestra and Lester Young)
- I Want a Little Girl
- What's Your Number?
- Love Jumped Out
- Broadway
- Stampede in G Minor
- Rockin' the Blues
- Jump the Blues Away (feat. The Count Basie Orchestra)
- The Jitters (feat. The Count Basie Orchestra)
- Tuesday at Ten
- Undecided Blues
- I Do Mean You
- 9:20 Special (feat. The Count Basie Orchestra)
- Feedin' the "Bean"
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
- Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
- Dickie's Dream
- Lester Leaps In
- The Apple Jump
- I Left My Baby
- Volcano
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- I Never Knew
- Tickle Toe
- Louisiana
- Easy Does It
- Let Me See
- Blow Top
- Gone With 'What' Wind
- Super Chief
- Gentle on My Mind
- Everything Is Beautiful
- Gonna Build a Mountain
- Sunrise, Sunset
- Hangin' Loose
- All His Children
- Put Your Hand in the Hand
- Snowbird
- Little Green Apples
- Sugar, Don't You Know
- Have a Nice Day
- I'll Always Be in Love With You
- Snooky
- Blues for Charlie Christian
- Jaws
- I'm Confessin' That I Love You
- I Want a Little Girl
- Blues in 'C'
- Brio
- Opus Six
- Vegas Drag
- Scooter
- Wee Baby
- N.H.O.P.
- Blues for little Jazz
- St. Louis Blues
- Walking The Blues
- Uptight (Everything's Alright)
- Respect
- Ode to Billie Joe
- My Girl
- In the Midnight Hour
- I Was Made to Love Her
- I Never Loved a Woman
- Funky Broadway
- For Your Precious Love
- Even When You Cry
- Chain Gang
- Kid from Red Bank
- Duet
- After Supper
- Flight of the Foo Birds
- Teddy the Toad
- Whirlybird
- Splanky
- Fantail
- Lil' Darlin'
- Buns Blues
- These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
- R.B.
- Burning
- Exactly Like You
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Louie B.
- Lester Leaps In
- Big Stockings
- S & J Blues
- A Little Tempo Please
- Corner Pocket
- I Needs to Be Be'd With
- Segue in C
- Back to the Apple
- The Deacon
- Easin' It
- No Moon at All
- Every Day I Have the Blues
- Whirly-Bird
- One O'Clock Jump
- One O'Clock Jump
- Every Tub
- Jeepers Creepers
- Dance of the Gremlins
- John's Idea
- The King
- 9:20 Special
- Jazz Me Blues
- Everyday I Have the Blues
- Red Bank Boogie
- Bleep Bleep
- Anything Goes
- Basie Goes West
- In a Mellowtone
- Hey Pretty Baby
- Seventh Avenue Express
- Walking Slow Behind You
- Mister Roberts' Roost
- Don't You Want a Man Like Me
- South
- You Call Yourself the Jungle King (I Found Out You Ain't a Doggone Thing)
- Sophisticated Swing
- House Rent Boogie
- Basie's Basement
- Brand New Wagon
- One O'Clock Jump
- Dance of the Gremlins
- Basie Talk
- Blee Blop Blues
- Bubbles
- You for Me
- Basie Goes Wess
- Straight Line
- Let's Jump
- Ska-Di-De-Dee-Doo
- Slow but Sure
- Two for the Blues
- Jazz Me Blues
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home
- Sun Is Gonna Shine Again
- Ain't That Fine
- Roll With My Baby
- Blues Before Sunrise
- Some Day
- Ego Song
- You'll Never Miss the Water
- I've Had My Fun
- What I Have Done
- Snow Is Falling
- Hey Now
- Midnight Hour
- Late in the Evening Blues
- Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand
- Honey, Honey
- Shoutin' Blues
- One O'Clock Boogie
- Swingin' the Blues
- Bill's Mill
- My Buddy
- South
- Shine on Harvest Moon
- I Never Knew
- Sophisticated Swing
- Just a Minute
- Cheek to Cheek
- St. Louis Baby
- Wonderful Thing
- Just an Old Manuscript
- Slider (take 1c)
- Mine Too
- Sweets
- Robbin's Nest
- Guest in a Nest
- Rat Race
- Normania
- I Could Have Told You
- Ain't No Use
- I Could Write a Book
- Gone Again
- Come Home
- I Worry 'Bout You
- What Will I Tell My Heart
- Don't Go to Strangers
- I'm Lost
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- Where Are You
- Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
- Sunday
- Im Getting Sentimental Over You (feat. Ella Fitzgerald)
- My Kind of Trouble Is You (feat. Ella Fitzgerald)
- Don't Worry About Me (feat. Ella Fitzgerald)
- Lena and Lenny (feat. S. Vaughan)
- The Honeydripper (feat. Joe Turner)
- Blues Around the Clock (feat. Joe Turner)
- Flip, Flop and Fly (feat. Joe Turner)
- My Jug and I (feat. Eddie Vinson)
- Cherry Red (feat. Eddie Vinson)
- Wee Baby (feat. Eddie Vinson)
- Blues for Joe Turner (feat. Joe Turner)
- Everyday I Have the Blues (feat. Joe Turner)
- Stormy Monday (feat. Joe Turner)
- I Hate You Baby (feat. Bill Caffey)
- Lonesome Blues (feat. Bill Caffey)
- TV Momma (feat. Joe Turner)
- Corrine, Corrina (feat. Joe Turner)
- Knock on Wood
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg
- Going Out of My Head
- Let the Good Times Roll
- Hang on Sloopy
- Reach Out I'll Be There
- In the Heat of the Night
- Mercy Mercy Mercy
- Green Onions
- Bright Lights, Big City
- Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
- Memphis Tennessee
- I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans
- Jeepers Creepers
- Growing Pains
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- April in Paris
- Are You Having Any Fun?
- Broadway
- Chicago
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- Lester Leaps In
- Life Is a Song
- Anything Goes
- Out of the Window
- With Plenty of Money and You
- Blues in Hoss' Flat
- H.R.H. (Her Royal Highness)
- Segue in C
- Kansas City Shout
- Speaking of Sounds
- TV Time
- Who, Me?
- The Deacon
- Half Moon Street
- Mutt & Jeff
- Fair and Warmer
- Moten Swing
- One O'Clock Jump
- Jumpin at the Woodside
- Red Bank Boogie
- Going to Chicago
- Every Day I Have the Blues
- Lester Leaps In
- Basie Boogie
- Every Tub
- All of Me
- April in Paris
- One O'Clock Jump
- Basie Boogie
- Taps Miller
- Red Bank Boogie
- The Mad Boogie
- The King
- Hob Nail Boogie
- Wild Bill's Boogie
- Little Pony
- Howzit
- Beaver Junction
- Nails
- Squeeze Me
- Boone's Blues
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Bill's Mill
- One O'Clock Boogie
- Brand New Wagon
- Bye Bye, Baby
- After You've Gone
- Seventh Avenue Express
- If You See My Baby
- Mr. Roberts' Roost
- Just a Minute
- Shine on, Harvest Moon
- Hey, Pretty Baby
- Sweets
- Sugar
- Basie's Basement
- Swingin' the Blues
- Battle Royal
- To You
- Take the "A" Train
- Until I Met You
- Wild Man
- Segue in C
- B D B
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Super Chief
- Gone With "What" Wind
- Coming Out Party
- Harvard Blues
- One O'Clock Jump
- I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
- Taps Miller
- Bill's Mill
- Me and the Blues
- Open the Door, Richard!
- Brand New Wagon
- Swingin' the Blues
- Basic's Basement
- Backstage at Stuff's
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- One O'Clock Jump
- Blue & Sentimental
- Stormy Monday Blues
- Going to Chicago
- Lester Leaps In
- Basie Boogie
- Every Day I Have the Blues
- Red Bank Boogie
- Shorty - George
- Basie Talk
- Swinging the Blues
- Basie Goes West
- The King
- In a Mellotone
- Whirly-Bird
- Basie Boogie
- Cute
- The Kid From Redbank
- Spring Is Here
- Why Not
- Little Pony
- Blee Blop Blues
- Corner Pocket
- One O'Clock Jump
- Moten Swing
- The Count Steps In
- Basie Boogie
- Shout and Feel It
- Andy's Blues
- Down for the Double
- Study in Brown
- I've Found a New Baby
- Lady Be Good
- Good Morning Blues
- Swing Brother Swing
- The Me and You Used to Be
- Dinah
- Stormy Monday Blues
- I'll Always Be in Love With You
- When My Dream Boat Comes Home
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Basie Boogie
- I Want a Little Girl
- Goin' to Chicago
- Platterbrains
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- April in Paris
- Lester Leaps In
- One O'Clock Jump
- Red Bank Boogie
- Swinging the Blues
- Spring Is Here
- Fantail
- Teddy the Toad
- Pensive Miss
- Corner Pocket
- Scoot
- Sweety Cake
- Cute
- Lil' Darlin'
- Low Life
- Blues (I Still Think of Her)
- Indian Summer
- Who, Me?
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Baby All the Time
- Little Pony
- Ol' Man River
- One O'Clock Jump
- [untitled]
- Shoe Shine Boy
- Lady Be Good
- Swingin' at the Daisy Chain
- Roseland Shuffle
- The Glory of Love
- Smarty (You Know It All)
- One O'Clock Jump
- John's Idea
- Time Out
- Topsy
- Out the Window
- Blues in the Dark
- Sent for You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today)
- Every Tub
- Swingin' the Blues
- Blue and Sentimental
- Doggin' Around
- Texas Shuffle
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- How Long, How Long Blues
- The Dirty Dozens
- Shorty George
- The Blues I Like to Hear
- Panassie Stomp
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- One O'Clock Jump
- Moten Swing
- Study in Brown
- Dinah (vocal Jimmy Rushing)
- Good Morning Blues
- Lady Be Good (from Musical)
- Flat Foot Floogie
- Every Tub
- Boogie Woogie Blues
- Lullaby of Birdland
- Summertime (from Porgy & Bess)
- These Foolish Things
- One Note Samba
- Makin' Whoopee
- April in Paris
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Ain't Misbehavin' (vocal Joe Williams)
- Shake, Rattle, and Roll (vocal Joe Williams)
- I Got It Bad
- Lester Leaps In
- Shiny Stockings
- Down for the Count
- Corner Pocket
- Blues Backstage
- April in Paris
- One O'Clock Jump
- I'm Shouting Again
- Count 'Em
- Nasty Magnus
- St. Louis Blues
- All of Me
- Doodle Oodle
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
- 9.20 Special
- Jeepers Creepers
- Swingin' the Blues
- With Plenty of Money and You
- Shorty George
- Chicago
- Broadway
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- Out the Window
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- Lester Leaps In
- Anything Goes
- Are You Havin' Any Fun?
- Dickie's Dream
- Growing Pains
- Jive at Five
- Life Is a Song
- April in Paris
- Little Pony
- Basie Goes Wess
- Down for the Count
- Fancy Meeting You
- Peace Pipe
- Basie English
- Over the Rainbow
- Perdido
- Cherry Point
- You're Just My Size
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- One O'Clock Jump
- Sixteen Men Swingin'
- Softly With the Feeling
- Basie Goes Wess
- Falling in Love
- Why Not
- Yesterdays
- Two Franks
- One O'Clock Jump
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Shiny Stockings
- How High the Moon
- Nails
- Flute Juice
- One O'Clock Jump
- Alright, Okay You Win
- Roll 'em Pete
- The Comeback
- Blues Backstage
- Corner Pocket
- Blee Blop Blues
- Yesterdays
- [untitled]
- Sixteen Men Swinging
- Plymouth Rock
- Just a Dream on My Mind
- Blues for Joe Turner (feat. Joe Turner)
- Blues for Joel
- Every Day I Have the Blues (feat. Joe Turner)
- Blues Au Four
- My Jug and I
- Cherry Red
- Apollo Daze
- Standing on the Corner
- Stormy Monday (feat. Joe Turner)
- Signifying
- Li'l Ol' Groovemaker...Basie
- Pleasingly Plump
- Boody Rumble
- Belly Roll
- Count 'Em
- Nasty Magnus
- Dum Dum
- Lullabye for Jolie
- Kansas City Wrinkles
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Swinging at the Daisy Chain
- Roseland Shuffle
- Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)
- One O'Clock Jump
- John's Idea
- Time Out
- Topsy
- Sent for You Yesterday
- Every Tub
- Swingin' the Blues
- Blue and Sentimental
- Doggin' Around
- Texas Shuffle
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Shorty George
- Jive at Five
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- One O'Clock Jump
- Lullaby of Birdland
- Fancy Meeting You
- Bubbles
- How High the Moon
- You're Not the Kind
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Jive at Five
- Yesterdays
- Blee Blop Blues
- Straight Life
- 16 Men Swinging
- Nails
- Two Franks
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- Goin' to Chicago Blues
- Live and Love Tonight
- Love Me or Leave Me
- Rock-A-Bye Basie
- Baby, Don't Tell on Me
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- Taxi War Dance
- Jump for Me
- Twelfth Street Rag
- Miss Thing, Part 1
- Miss Thing, Part 2
- Lonesome Miss Pretty
- Nobody Knows
- Pound Cake
- How Long Blues
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
- Don't Worry 'bout Me
- If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
- Goin' to Chicago Blues
- I Want a Little Girl
- My Old Flame
- If I Didn't Care
- Moon Nocturne
- Somebody Stole My Gal
- All of Me
- And the Angels Sing
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- Blue Shadows and White Gardenias
- That Old Feeling
- Jivin' Joe Jackson
- Blue Skies
- Swinging at the Daisy Chain
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Roseland Shuffle
- One O'Clock Jump
- John's Idea
- Time Out
- Topsy
- Swinging the Blues
- Blue and Sentimental
- Texas Shuffle
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Pannasie Stomp
- Cherokee, Parts 1 & 2
- You Can Depend on Me
- Jive at Five
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- Close Quarters
- Blues Blasé
- Embraceable You
- Ballin' the Jack
- The Sleeper
- More Than One for My Baby
- Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
- I Want a Little Girl
- Lincoln Heights
- Good Morning Blues
- Cubano Chant
- Cool Too
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Pennies From Heaven
- Swinging at the Daisy Chain
- Roseland Shuffle
- Exactly Like You
- Boo Hoo
- The Glory of Love
- Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)
- (You Know It All) Smarty
- One O'Clock Jump
- Listen My Children and You Shall Hear
- John's Idea
- Good Morning Blues (1st take)
- Good Morning Blues (2nd take)
- Our Love Was Meant to Be
- Time Out
- Topsy
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Shake Rattle & Roll
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Makin' Whoopee
- Summertime
- These Foolish Things
- Lester Leaps In
- One O'Clock Jump
- I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
- Ska-Di-De-Dee-Doo
- Two for the Blues
- Dance of the Gremlins
- Let's Jump
- Jazz Me Blues
- April in Paris
- Lullaby of Birdland
- One O'Clock Jump
- Time Out
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Sophisticated Swing
- One O'Clock Boogie
- Roseland Shuffle
- Flat Foot Boogie
- Lady Be Good
- Don't Be That Way
- Boogie Woogie
- Love Me or Leave Me
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- Darn That Dream
- Red Bank Boogie
- Free Eats
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
- Sent for You Yesterday
- High Tide
- I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
- Soft Winds
- Rent Party
- (Back Home Again in) Indiana
- Hey, Raymond
- After You've Gone
- That's the One
- One O'Clock Jump
- Topsy
- Every Tub
- Swingin' the Blues
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Texas Shuffle
- Boogie Woogie
- The Fives
- Oh! Red
- Red Wagon
- Jive at Five
- Oh! Lade Be Good
- Goin' to Chicago Blues
- Rock-A-Bye-Basie
- Don't Worry 'Bout Me
- And the Angels Sing
- If I Didn't Care
- Twelfth Street Rag
- How Long, How Long Blues
- Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie
- Dickie's Dream
- Lester Leaps In
- I Never Knew
- Let's Make Hey! While The Sun Shines
- Louisiana
- One O'Clock Jump
- April in Paris
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- Basie Boogie
- Twelfth Street Rag
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- Swingin' the Blues
- Blue and Sentimental
- Rock-A-Bye Basie
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home
- Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
- Lester Leaps In
- Moten Swing
- The Swizzle
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Mama Don't Want No Peas an' Rice an' Cocoanut Oil
- Jazz Me Blues
- Sent for You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today)
- Good Morning Blues
- Don't You Miss Your Baby
- I Never Knew
- Jive at Five
- Mr. Robert's Roost
- Let's Jump
- Jumpin' at the Woodside
- One O'Clock Jump
- Swingin' the Blues
- Topsy
- Every Tub
- Boogie Woogie
- Dickie's Dream
- Twelth Street Rag
- Red Wagon
- Oh! Lady Be Good
- Jive at Five
- The Fives
- Texas Shuffle
- Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie
- Oh! Red
- Tickle Toe
- I Never Knew
- Sugar Blues
- Love Jumped Out
- Super Chief
- Lester Leaps In
- Red Bank Boogie
- Rhythm Man
- Fiesta in Blue
- Yeah Man!
- Whirly Bird
- Basie Boogie
- Shiny Stockings
- The Kid From Redbank
- Little Pony
- Jive at Five
- Rock-a-Bye Basie
- Plymouth Rock
- Jumpin' at the Blues
- Lil' Darling
- Swingin' the Blues
- Midgets
- One O'Clock Jump
- April in Paris
- Whirly Bird
- Shiny Stockings
- The Kid From Redbank
- Little Pony
- Rock-A-Bye Basie
- Plymouth Rock
- Jumpin' at the Blues
- Lil' Darling
- Swingin' the Blues
- Midgets
- One O'Clock Jump
- April in Paris
- Basie Boogie
- Jive at Five
- Sweet Lorraine
- Easy Does It
- Zoot
- Love Me or Leave Me
- N.H.O.P.
- She's Funny That Way
- Turnaround
- Madame Fitz
- Royal Garden Blues
Born: 1904-08-21
Died: 1984-04-26
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COUNT BASIE Swingin' the Blues, 1941 HOT big band swing jazz
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:29
- Published: 15 Oct 2008
- Updated: 17 May 2012
COUNT BASIE Excerpts from the oddly titled "Dance of the Gremlins" (thanks to mfb25890 & mbdavis10025 for the song ID), and "Swingin' the Blues", c. 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... ================================== ==================================
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Oscar Peterson & Count Basie - Slow Blues
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- Duration: 4:36
- Published: 11 Mar 2007
- Updated: 17 May 2012
Oscar Peterson & Count Basie (piano) Niels Pedersen (bass) Martin Drew (drums) it's taken from my oscar dvd.. I have more 200 cd of Oscar and all dvd in commerce..if you want something...please contact me
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Count Basie Orchestra - One O' Clock Jump
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- Duration: 3:11
- Published: 27 Aug 2008
- Updated: 17 May 2012
Count Basie, piano; Wardell Gray, tenor sax; Buddy DeFranco, clarinet; Clark Terry, trumpet; Freddie Green, guitar; Jimmy Lewis, bass; Gus Johnson, drums, from the film, "Rhythm and Blues Review," October 1950 Swing Bless You! According to mikeao54 the original name of this tune was Blue Balls!!! :P
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Count Basie - Booty's Blues
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- Duration: 4:01
- Published: 25 Aug 2006
- Updated: 16 May 2012
Count Basie playing a duet with bassist Cleveland Eaton. Trombone solo is by Booty Wood. Carnegie Hall Concert, 1981
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Count Basie Meets Clark Terry
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- Duration: 3:13
- Published: 13 Dec 2006
- Updated: 16 May 2012
Happy 91st Birthday Clark Terry www.jazzvideoguy.tv presents Count Basie, from the film, "Rhythm and Blues Review," October 1950. The film is now in public domain and can be downloaded from http In between big bands, led this all-star group, which includes: Count Basie, piano; Wardell Gray, tenor sax; Buddy DeFranco, clarinet; Clark Terry, trumpet; Freddie Green, guitar; Jimmy Lewis, bass; Gus Johnson, drums.
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Count Basie - All Of Me
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- Duration: 3:41
- Published: 22 Aug 2009
- Updated: 16 May 2012
"All Of Me" as performed by Count Basie live in Berlin. Purchase the DVD here: www.101distribution.com
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Basie Boogies with the Big Band ('40s)
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- Duration: 1:54
- Published: 13 Feb 2007
- Updated: 17 May 2012
Count Basie's all over the keyboard in this boogie woogie oriented piece.
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Count Basie - Basie Boogie
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- Duration: 3:02
- Published: 19 Jan 2008
- Updated: 12 May 2012
Count Basie - piano
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Count Basie - Splanky
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- Duration: 3:34
- Published: 10 May 2009
- Updated: 15 May 2012
Count Basie Splanky
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Oscar Peterson & Count Basie - Jumpin' At The Woodside
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- Duration: 3:05
- Published: 06 Oct 2008
- Updated: 14 May 2012
Oscar Peterson & Count Basie (piano) Niels Pedersen (bass) Martin Drew (drums) from bbc television
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Count Basie Orchestra - CornerPocket (1962)
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- Duration: 5:20
- Published: 25 Mar 2009
- Updated: 17 May 2012
The Count Basie Orchestra of 1962, in all its swinging glory. Frank Wess, Frank Foster, Eric Dixon, Thad Jones, Al Aarons, Snooky Young -- and Freddie Green laying down those perfect 4/4 chords. Sonny Payne is the drummer you're asking about.
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Count Basie - Shiny Stockings
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- Duration: 5:01
- Published: 19 Aug 2009
- Updated: 17 May 2012
"Shiny Stockings" by Count Basie and Orchestra. Composed by Frank Foster.
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Count Basie Band
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- Duration: 4:24
- Published: 30 Sep 2007
- Updated: 14 May 2012
"Everyday I Have The Blues" featuring Joe Williams on vocals, Lin Biviano on lead trumpet, Butch Miles on drums
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Count Basie - In A Mellow Tone
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- Duration: 5:30
- Published: 17 Feb 2007
- Updated: 17 May 2012
Show da Big Band de Count Basie na Europa, em 1981 Reparem como eles tocam juntos, e no soli de saxofone
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Count Basie - April in Paris
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- Duration: 3:50
- Published: 25 Nov 2009
- Updated: 16 May 2012
One of the greatest bands ever, Count Basie's Orchestra, playing a great big band tune.
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Ｃｏｕｎｔ Ｂａｓｉｅ：♪Ａｐｒｉｌ Ｉｎ Ｐａｒｉｓ
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- Duration: 3:44
- Published: 12 Aug 2008
- Updated: 14 May 2012
ｔｏｋｙｏ、ｊａｐａｎ
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Count Basie - Cute
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- Duration: 3:38
- Published: 05 Aug 2011
- Updated: 15 May 2012
"Cute" perfomed by Count Basie Orchestra
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JINGLE BELLS / COUNT BASIE
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- Duration: 3:16
- Published: 21 Dec 2008
- Updated: 17 Mar 2012
SWINGIN' CHRISTMAS！
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Count Basie - fast and happy blues
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- Duration: 2:48
- Published: 02 Dec 2007
- Updated: 14 May 2012
featuring Count Basie All Stars: Emmett Berry, Doc Cheatham, Joe Newman, Joe Wilder (tp); Roy Eldridge (tp, flhn); Vic Dickinson, Benny Morton, Dicky Wells (tb); Earl Warren (as); Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster (ts); Gerry Mulligan (bs); Count Basie (p); Freddie Green (g); Eddie Jones (b); Jo Jones (d)
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Count Basie & His Orch. 1938 Randall's Island NYC
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- Duration: 1:58
- Published: 14 Nov 2006
- Updated: 10 May 2012
Lester Young is featured here. If you look closely you might see violinist Stuff Smith in the audience clapping along and guitarist Teddy Bunn on the side lines diggin' the band.
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Ray Charles & Count Basie - Ray Sings Basie Swings EPK
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- Duration: 10:04
- Published: 30 Aug 2006
- Updated: 16 May 2012
Ray Charles & Count Basie - Ray Sings Basie Swings EPK for the album due in stores 10/3/06.
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Count Basie - Good Time Blues
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- Duration: 5:31
- Published: 28 Nov 2009
- Updated: 09 May 2012
The Count Basie Orchestra: Dale Carley, Chris Albert, Sonny Cohn, Bob Summers (tp), Bill Hughes, Dennis Wilson, Grover Mitchell, Booty Wood (tb), Danny Turner (as), Bobby Plater (as, fl), Kenny Hing (ts), Eric Dixon (ts, fl), John Williams (bs), Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (g), Cleveland Eaton II (b), Gregg Field (d).
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Frank "Sugar Chile Robinson" with Count Basie
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- Duration: 5:44
- Published: 18 Dec 2009
- Updated: 17 May 2012
musical prodigy
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Q. Where does Count Basie and his wonderful orchestra place on your list of top big bands? A. Count Basie and his orchestra placed ninth on the list of my "Big Band Era/Best of the Big Bands" lecture audiences. The boy from Red Bank, New Jersey, William "Count" Basie started out playing piano and...(size: 5.6Kb)
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Metropolitan Klezmer isn't just a klezmer band. The New York- based group, which will perform Sunday at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, is a klezmer act at its core, but there are elements of swing, Latin, folk and jazz in its songbook. "Variety has always been a good thing for us,"...(size: 2.2Kb)
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On Thursday, March 29, the Salt Creek Grille, Rumson, will hold its Anniversary Wine & Martini Tasting fundraiser to benefit the Count Basie Theatre Performing Arts Academy. The evening’s offerings include: specialty martinis and premiere wines; passed hors d’oeuvres, pasta and carving stations...(size: 7.2Kb)
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Patrizio Buanne was born to sing traditional Italian music. While growing up in Italy and Austria, the sounds of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Mario Lanza emanated throughout his father's restaurants. "I would hear those wonderful songs there and at home," Buanne said. "My father would play those...(size: 2.5Kb)
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| name | Count Basie |
|---|---|
| background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| birth name | William James Basie |
| birth date | August 21, 1904 |
| Birth place | Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S. |
| death date | April 26, 1984 |
| Death place | Hollywood, Florida, U.S. |
| instrument | Piano, organ |
| genre | Jazz, Swing, big band, piano blues |
| occupation | Musician, bandleader, composer |
| years active | 1924–1984 |
| notable instruments | }} |
That year Basie formed his own jazz orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. 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. Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, the guitarist Freddie Green, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. Basie's theme songs were "One O'Clock Jump," developed in 1935 in the early days of his band, and "April In Paris".
Biography
Early life and education
William Basie was born to Harvey Lee and Lillian Basie in Red Bank, New Jersey. His father worked as a coachman and caretaker for a wealthy judge. After automobiles replaced horses, his father became a groundskeeper and handyman for several wealthy families in the area. His mother, a piano player who gave Basie his first piano lessons, took in laundry and baked cakes for sale. She paid 25 cents a lesson for piano instruction for him.Not much of a student in school, Basie dreamed of a traveling life, inspired by touring carnivals which came to town. He finished junior high school but spent much of his time at the Palace Theater in Red Bank, where doing occasional chores gained him free admission to performances. He learned to operate the spotlights for the vaudeville shows. One day, when the pianist failed to arrive by show time, Basie took his place. Playing by ear, he quickly learned to improvise music appropriate to the acts and the silent movies.
Though a natural at the piano, Basie preferred drums. Discouraged by the obvious talents of Sonny Greer, who also lived in Red Bank and became Duke Ellington's drummer in 1919, Basie at age 15 switched to piano exclusively. When not playing a gig, he hung out at the local pool hall with other musicians, where he picked up on upcoming play dates and gossip. He got some jobs in Asbury Park at the Jersey Shore, and played at the Hong Kong Inn until a better player took his place.
Early career
Around 1924, Basie went to Harlem, a hotbed of jazz, where he lived down the block from the Alhambra Theater. Early after his arrival, he bumped into Sonny Greer, who was by then the drummer for the Washingtonians, Duke Ellington's early band. Soon, Basie met many of the Harlem musicians who were "making the scene," including Willie "the Lion" Smith and James P. Johnson.Basie toured in several acts between 1925 and 1927, including ''Katie Krippen and Her Kiddies'' as part of the ''Hippity Hop'' show; on the Keith, the Columbia Burlesque, and the Theater Owners Bookers Association (T.O.B.A.) vaudeville circuits; and as a soloist and accompanist to blues singers Katie Krippen and Gonzelle White. His touring took him to Kansas City, St. Louis, New Orleans, and Chicago. Throughout his tours, Basie met many great jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong.
Back in Harlem in 1925, Basie got his first steady job at Leroy's, a place known for its piano players and its "cutting contests." The place catered to "uptown celebrities," and typically the band winged every number without sheet music (using "head arrangements"). He met Fats Waller, who was playing organ at the Lincoln Theater accompanying silent movies, and Waller taught him how to play that instrument. (Basie later played organ at the Eblon Theater in Kansas City). As he did with Duke Ellington, Willie "the Lion" Smith helped Basie out during the lean times by arranging gigs at "house-rent parties," introducing him to other top musicians, and teaching him some piano technique.
In 1928 Basie was in Tulsa and heard Walter Page and his Famous Blue Devils, one of the first big bands, which featured Jimmy Rushing on vocals. A few months later, he was invited to join the band, which played mostly in Texas and Oklahoma. It was at this time that he began to be known as "Count" Basie (see Jazz royalty).
Kansas City years
The following year, in 1929 Basie became the pianist with the Bennie Moten band based in Kansas City, inspired by Moten's ambition to raise his band to the level of Duke Ellington's or Fletcher Henderson's. Where the Blue Devils were "snappier" and more "bluesy," the Moten band was classier and more respected, and played in the "Kansas City stomp" style. In addition to playing piano, Basie was co-arranger with Eddie Durham, who notated the music. During a stay in Chicago, Basie recorded with the band. He occasionally played four-hand piano and dual pianos with Moten, who also conducted. The band improved with several personnel changes, including the addition of tenor saxophonist Ben Webster.When the band voted Moten out, Basie took over for several months, calling the group "Count Basie and his Cherry Blossoms." When his own band folded, he rejoined Moten with a newly re-organized band. When Moten died in 1935 after a surgical procedure, the band unsuccessfully tried to stay together but couldn't make a go of it.
Basie formed a new band that year, which included many Moten alumni, with the important addition of tenor player Lester Young. They played at the Reno Club and sometimes were broadcast on local radio. Late one night with time to fill, the band started improvising. Basie liked the results and named the piece "One O'Clock Jump." According to Basie, "we hit it with the rhythm section and went into the riffs, and the riffs just stuck. We set the thing up front in D-flat, and then we just went on playing in F." It became his signature tune.
John Hammond and first recordings
At the end of 1936, Basie and his band, now billed as "Count Basie and His Barons of Rhythm," moved from Kansas City to Chicago, where they honed their repertoire at a long engagement at the Grand Terrace Ballroom. Right from the start, Basie's band was noted for its rhythm section. Another Basie innovation was the use of two tenor saxophone players; at the time, most bands had just one. When Young complained of Herschel Evans' vibrato, Basie placed them on either side of the alto players, and soon had the tenor players engaged in "duels". Many other bands later adapted the split tenor arrangement.In that city in October 1936, the band had a recording session which the producer John Hammond later described as "the only perfect, completely perfect recording session I've ever had anything to do with". Hammond had heard Basie's band over short-wave radio and went to Kansas City to check them out. He invited them to record, in performances which were Lester Young's earliest recordings. Those four sides were released under the band name of Jones-Smith Incorporated; the sides were "Shoe Shine Boy", "Evening", "Boogie Woogie", and "Oh, Lady Be Good". Basie had already signed with Decca Records, but did not have his first recording session with them until January 1937.
By then, Basie's sound was characterized by a "jumping" beat and the contrapuntal accents of his own piano. His personnel around 1937 included: Lester Young and Herschel Evans (tenor sax), Freddie Green (guitar), Jo Jones (drums), Walter Page (bass), Earle Warren (alto sax), Buck Clayton and Harry Edison (trumpet), Benny Morton and Dickie Wells (trombone). Lester Young, known as "Prez" by the band, came up with nicknames for all the other band members. He called Basie "Holy Man", "Holy Main", and just plain "Holy".
Basie favored blues, and he would showcase some of the most notable blues singers of the era after he went to New York: Billie Holiday, Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Turner, Helen Humes, and Joe Williams. He also hired arrangers who knew how to maximize the band's abilities, such as Eddie Durham and Jimmy Mundy.
New York City and the Swing years
When Basie took his orchestra to New York in 1937, they made the Woodside Hotel in Queens their base (they often rehearsed in its basement). Soon, they were booked at the Roseland Ballroom for the Christmas show. Basie recalled a review, which said something like, "We caught the great Count Basie band which is supposed to be so hot he was going to come in here and set the Roseland on fire. Well, the Roseland is still standing". Compared to the reigning band of Fletcher Henderson, Basie's band lacked polish and presentation.The producer John Hammond continued to advise and encourage the band, and they soon came up with some adjustments, including softer playing, more solos, and more standards. They paced themselves to save their hottest numbers for later in the show, to give the audience a chance to warm up. His first official recordings for Decca followed, under contract to agent MCA, including "Pennies from Heaven" and "Honeysuckle Rose".
Hammond introduced Basie to Billie Holiday, whom he invited to sing with the band. (Holiday didn't record with Basie, as she had her own record contract and preferred working with small combos). The band's first appearance at the Apollo Theater followed, with the vocalists Holiday and Jimmy Rushing getting the most attention. Durham returned to help with arranging and composing, but for the most part, the orchestra worked out its numbers in rehearsal, with Basie guiding the proceedings. There were often no musical notations made. Once the musicians found what they liked, they usually were able to repeat it using their "head arrangements" and collective memory.
Next, Basie played at the Savoy, which was noted more for jitterbugging, while the Roseland was a place for fox-trots and congas. In early 1938, the Savoy was the meeting ground for a "battle of the bands" with Chick Webb's group. Basie had Holiday, and Webb countered with the singer Ella Fitzgerald. As ''Metronome'' magazine proclaimed, "Basie's Brilliant Band Conquers Chick's"; the article described the evening:
"Throughout the fight, which never let down in its intensity during the whole fray, Chick took the aggressive, with the Count playing along easily and, on the whole, more musically scientifically. Undismayed by Chick's forceful drum beating, which sent the audience into shouts of encouragement and appreciation and casual beads of perspiration to drop from Chick's brow onto the brass cymbals, the Count maintained an attitude of poise and self-assurance. He constantly parried Chick's thundering haymakers with tantalizing runs and arpeggios which teased more and more force from his adversary".The publicity over the big band battle, before and after, gave the Basie band a boost and wider recognition. Soon after, Benny Goodman recorded their signature "One O'Clock Jump" with his band.
A few months later, Holiday left for Artie Shaw's band. Hammond introduced Helen Humes, whom Basie hired; she stayed with Basie for four years. When Eddie Durham left for Glenn Miller's orchestra, he was replaced by Dicky Wells. Basie's 14-man band began playing at the Famous Door, a mid-town nightspot with a CBS network feed and air conditioning. Their fame took a huge leap. Adding to their play book, Basie received arrangements from Jimmy Mundy (who had also worked with Benny Goodman and Earl Hines), particularly for "Cherokee", "Easy Does It", and "Super Chief". In 1939, Basie and his band made a major cross-country tour, including their first West Coast dates. A few months later, Basie quit MCA and signed with the William Morris Agency, who got them better fees.
On the West Coast, in 1942 the band did a spot in ''Reveille With Beverly'', a musical film starring Ann Miller, and a "Command Performance" for Armed Forces Radio, with Hollywood stars Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Carmen Miranda, Jerry Colonna, and the singer Dinah Shore. Other minor movie spots followed, including ''Choo Choo Swing'', ''Crazy House'', ''Top Man'', and ''Hit Parade of 1943''. They also started to record with RCA. The war years caused a lot of members turn over, and the band worked many play dates with lower pay. Dance hall bookings were down sharply as swing began to fade, the effects of the musicians' strikes of 1942-44 and 1948 began to be felt, and the public's taste grew for singers.
Marriage and family
Basie had married Catherine Morgan in the late 1930s. In 1942, they moved to Queens.
Post-war and later years
The big band era appeared to have ended after the war, and Basie disbanded the group. For a while, he performed in combos, sometimes stretched to an orchestra. In 1950, he headlined the Universal-International short film ''"Sugar Chile" Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet.'' He reformed his group as a 16-piece orchestra in 1952. Basie credits Billy Eckstine, a top male vocalist of the time, for prompting his return to Big Band. He said that Norman Granz got them into the Birdland club and promoted the new band through recordings on the Mercury, Clef, and Verve labels. The jukebox era had begun, and Basie shared the exposure along with early rock'n'roll and rhythm and blues artists. Basie's new band was more of an ensemble group, with fewer solo turns, and relying less on "head" and more on written arrangements.Basie added touches of bebop "so long as it made sense", and he required that "it all had to have feeling". Basie's band was sharing Birdland with such bebop greats as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis. Behind the occasional bebop solos, he always kept his strict rhythmic pulse, "so it doesn't matter what they do up front; the audience gets the beat". Basie also added flute to some numbers, a novelty at the time that became widely copied. Soon, his band was touring and recording again. The new band included: Paul Campbell, Tommy Turrentine, Johnny Letman, Idrees Sulieman, and Joe Newman (trumpet); Jimmy Wilkins, Benny Powell, Matthew Gee (trombone); Paul Quinichette and Floyd "Candy" Johnson (tenor sax); Marshall Royal and Ernie Wilkins (alto sax); and Charlie Fowlkes (baritone sax). ''Down Beat'' magazine reported, "(Basie) has managed to assemble an ensemble that can thrill both the listener who remembers 1938 and the youngster who has never before heard a big band like this."
In 1954, the band made its first European tour. Jazz was especially appreciated in France, The Netherlands, and Germany in the 1950s; these countries were the stomping grounds for many expatriate American jazz stars who were either resurrecting their careers or sitting out the years of racial divide in the United States. Neal Hefti began to provide arrangements, notably "Lil Darlin'". By the mid-1950s, Basie's band had become one of the preeminent backing big bands for some of the most prominent jazz vocalists of the time. They also toured with the "Birdland Stars of 1955", whose lineup included Sarah Vaughan, Erroll Garner, Lester Young, George Shearing, and Stan Getz.
In 1957, Basie released the live album ''Count Basie at Newport''. "April in Paris" (arrangement by Wild Bill Davis) was a best-selling instrumental and the title song for the hit album. The Basie band made two tours in the British Isles and on the second, they put on a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II, along with Judy Garland, Vera Lynn, and Mario Lanza. He was a guest on ABC's ''The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom,'' a venue also opened to several other black entertainers. In 1959, Basie's band recorded a "greatest hits" double album ''The Count Basie Story'' (Frank Foster, arranger) and "Basie and Eckstine, Inc.": album featuring Billy Eckstine, Quincy Jones (as arranger) and the Count Basie Orchestra. It was released by Roulette Records, then later reissued by Capital Records.
Later that year, Basie appeared on a television special with Fred Astaire, featuring a dance solo to "Sweet Georgia Brown", followed in January 1960 by Basie performing at one of the five John F. Kennedy Inaugural Balls. That summer, Basie and Duke Ellington combined forces for the recording ''First Time! The Count Meets the Duke'', each providing four numbers from their play books.
During the balance of the 1960s, the band kept busy with tours, recordings, television appearances, festivals, Las Vegas shows, and travel abroad, including cruises. Some time around 1964, Basie adopted his trademark yachting cap.
Through steady changes in personnel, Basie led the band into the 1970s. Basie made a few more movie appearances, such as the Jerry Lewis film ''Cinderfella'' (1960) and the Mel Brooks movie ''Blazing Saddles'' (1974), playing his arrangement of "April in Paris".
Basie died of pancreatic cancer in Hollywood, Florida on April 26, 1984 at the age of 79.
Count Basie and his Orchestra
The musicians associated with Count Basie over the years included the following:
The singers
Basie hitched his star to some of the most famous vocalists of the 1950s and 1960s, which helped keep the Big Band sound alive and added greatly to his recording catalog. Jimmy Rushing sang with Basie in the late 1930s. Joe Williams toured with the band and was featured on the 1957 album ''One O'Clock Jump'', and 1956's ''Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings'', with "Every Day (I Have the Blues)" becoming a huge hit. With Billy Eckstine on the album Basie-Eckstine Inc., in 1959. Ella Fitzgerald made some memorable recordings with Basie, including the 1963 album ''Ella and Basie!''. With the 'New Testament' Basie band in full swing, and arrangements written by a youthful Quincy Jones, this album proved a swinging respite from her ''Songbook'' recordings and constant touring she did during this period. She even toured with the Basie Orchestra in the mid-1970s, and Fitzgerald and Basie also met on the 1979 albums ''A Classy Pair'', ''Digital III at Montreux'', and ''A Perfect Match'', the last two also recorded live at Montreux. In addition to Quincy Jones, Basie was using arrangers such as Benny Carter ''(Kansas City Suite)'', Neal Hefti ''(The Atomic Mr Basie)'', and Sammy Nestico ''(Basie-Straight Ahead)''.Frank Sinatra recorded for the first time with Basie on 1962's ''Sinatra-Basie'' and for a second studio album on 1964's ''It Might as Well Be Swing'', which was arranged by Quincy Jones. Jones also arranged and conducted 1966's live ''Sinatra at the Sands''. In May 1970, Sinatra performed in London's Royal Festival Hall with the Basie orchestra, in a charity benefit for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Sinatra later said of this concert "I have a funny feeling that those two nights could have been my finest hour, really. It went so well; it was so thrilling and exciting".
Basie also recorded with Tony Bennett in the early 1960s — their albums together included the live recording at Las Vegas and ''Strike Up the Band'', a studio album. Basie also toured with Bennett, including a date at Carnegie Hall. Other notable recordings were with Sammy Davis, Jr., Bing Crosby, and Sarah Vaughan. One of Basie's biggest regrets was never recording with Louis Armstrong, though they shared the same bill several times.
Legacy and honors
Count Basie introduced several generations of listeners to the Big Band sound and left an influential catalog. Basie is remembered by many who worked for him as being considerate of musicians and their opinions, modest, relaxed, fun-loving, dryly witty, and always enthusiastic about his music. In his autobiography, he wrote, "I think the band can really ''swing'' when it swings ''easy'', when it can just play along like you are cutting butter."
Representation in other media
Discography
The majority of Basie's recordings were made with his big band, see Count Basie Orchestra Discography.Basie also made several small group recordings without his band:
Filmography
Awards
Grammy Awards
{| class=wikitable |- | colspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| Count Basie Grammy Award history |- ! Year ! Category ! Title ! Genre ! Results |- align=center | 1982 | Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band | ''Warm Breeze'' | Jazz | Winner |- align=center | 1984 | Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band | ''88 Basie Street'' | Jazz | Winner |- align=center | 1980 | Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band | ''On The Road'' | Jazz | Winner |- align=center | 1977 | Best Jazz Performance By A Big Band | ''Prime Time'' | Jazz | Winner |- align=center | 1976 | Best Jazz Performance By A Soloist (Instrumental) | ''Basie And Zoot'' | Jazz | Winner |- align=center | 1963 | Best Performance By An Orchestra – For Dancing | ''This Time By Basie! Hits Of The 50's And 60's'' | Pop | Winner |- align=center | 1960 | Best Performance By A Band For Dancing | ''Dance With Basie'' | Pop | Winner |- align=center | 1958 | Best Performance By A Dance Band | ''Basie'' | Pop | Winner |- align=center | 1958 | Best Jazz Performance, Group | ''Basie'' | Jazz | Winner |}
Grammy Hall of Fame
By 2011, four recordings of Count Basie had been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."{| class=wikitable |- | colspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| Count Basie Grammy Hall of Fame Awards |- ! Year recorded ! Title ! genre ! Label ! Year inducted |- align=center | 1939 | Lester Leaps In | Jazz (Single) | Vocalion | 2005 |- align=center | 1955 | Everyday (I Have the Blues) | Jazz (Single) | Clef | 1992 |- align=center | 1955 | April in Paris | Jazz (Single) | Clef | 1985 |- align=center | 1937 | One O'Clock Jump | Jazz (Single) | Decca | 1979 |}
Honors and inductions
On May 23, 1985, William "Count" Basie was presented, posthumously, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan. The award was received by his son, Aaron Woodward.On September 11, 1996 the U.S. Post Office issued a Count Basie 32 cents postage stamp. Basie is a part of the Big Band Leaders issue, which, is in turn, part of the Legends of American Music series.
In 2009, Basie was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
{| class=wikitable |- | colspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| Count Basie award history |- ! Year ! Category ! Result ! Notes |- align=center | 2007 | Long Island Music Hall of Fame | Inducted | |- align=center | 2005 | Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame | Inducted | |- align=center | 2002 | Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award | Winner | |- align=center | 1983 | NEA Jazz Masters | Winner | |- align=center | 1981 | Grammy Trustees Award | Winner | |- align=center | 1981 | Kennedy Center Honors | Honoree | |- align=center | late 1970s | Hollywood Walk of Fame | Honoree | at 6508 Hollywood Blvd. |- align=center | 1970 | Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia | Initiated | Mu Nu Chapter |- align=center | 1958 | Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame | Inducted | |}
National Recording Registry
In 2005, Count Basie's song "One O'Clock Jump" (1937) was included by the National Recording Preservation Board in the Library of Congress National Recording Registry. The board selects songs in an annual basis that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
References
External links
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| name | Oscar Emmanuel Peterson |
|---|---|
| landscape | yes |
| background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| birth name | Oscar Emmanuel Peterson |
| birth date | August 15, 1925 |
| origin | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| death date | December 23, 2007 |
| Death place | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
| instrument | Piano |
| genre | Jazz |
| occupation | Pianist, composer, vocalist |
| years active | 1945–2007 |
| label | Mercury, MPS, Pablo, Telarc, Verve |
| website | www.oscarpeterson.com }} |
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won eight Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career. He is considered to have been one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, having played thousands of live concerts to audiences worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years.
Biography
Peterson was born to immigrants from the West Indies; his father worked as a porter for Canadian Pacific Railway. Peterson grew up in the neighbourhood of Little Burgundy in Montreal, Quebec. It was in this predominantly black neighbourhood that he found himself surrounded by the jazz culture that flourished in the early 20th century. At the age of five, Peterson began honing his skills with the trumpet and piano. However, a bout of tuberculosis at age seven prevented him from playing the trumpet again, and so he directed all his attention to the piano. His father, Daniel Peterson, an amateur trumpeter and pianist, was one of his first music teachers, and his sister Daisy taught young Oscar classical piano. Young Oscar was persistent at practising scales and classical etudes daily, and thanks to such arduous practice he developed his astonishing virtuosity.As a child, Peterson also studied with Hungarian-born pianist Paul de Marky, a student of István Thomán, who was himself a pupil of Franz Liszt, so his training was predominantly based on classical piano. Meanwhile he was captivated by traditional jazz and learned several ragtime pieces and especially the boogie-woogie. At that time Peterson was called "the Brown Bomber of the Boogie-Woogie."
At age nine Peterson played piano with control that impressed professional musicians. For many years his piano studies included four to six hours of practice daily. Only in his later years did he decrease his daily practice to just one or two hours. In 1940, at age fourteen, Peterson won the national music competition organized by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. After that victory, he dropped out of school and became a professional pianist working for a weekly radio show, and playing at hotels and music halls.
Influences
Some of the artists who influenced Peterson's musicianship during the earlier type of years were Teddy Wilson, Nat "King" Cole, James P. Johnson and Art Tatum, to whom many have tried to compare Peterson in later years. One of his first exposures to Tatum's musical talents came early in his teen years when his father played Art Tatum's Tiger Rag for him, and Peterson was so intimidated by what he heard that he became disillusioned about his own playing, to the extent of refusing to play the piano at all for several weeks. In his own words, "Tatum scared me to death" and Peterson was "never cocky again" about his mastery at the piano. Tatum was a model for Peterson's musicianship during the 1940s and 1950s. Tatum and Peterson eventually became good friends, although Peterson was always shy about being compared with Tatum and rarely played the piano in Tatum's presence.Peterson has also credited his sister Daisy Sweeney — a noted piano teacher in Montreal who also taught several other noted Canadian jazz musicians — with being an important teacher and influence on his career. Under his sister's tutelage, Peterson expanded into classical piano training and broadened his range while mastering the core classical pianism from scales to preludes and fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Building on Art Tatum's pianism and aesthetics, Peterson also absorbed Tatum's musical influences, notably from piano concertos by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff's harmonizations, as well as direct quotations from his 2nd Piano Concerto, are thrown in here and there in many recordings by Peterson, including his work with the most familiar formulation of the Oscar Peterson Trio, with bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Herb Ellis. During the 1960s and 1970s Peterson made numerous trio recordings highlighting his piano performances that reveal more of his eclectic style that absorbed influences from various genres of jazz, popular and classical music.
Norman Granz
An important step in his career was joining impresario Norman Granz's labels (especially Verve) and Granz's "Jazz at the Philharmonic" project. Granz discovered Peterson in a peculiar manner. As the impresario was being taken to the Montreal airport by cab, the radio was playing a live broadcast of Peterson at a local night club. Granz was so smitten by what he heard that he ordered the driver to take him to the club so that he could meet the pianist. In 1949, Granz introduced Peterson at a Carnegie Hall ''Jazz at the Philharmonic'' show in New York.So was born a lasting relationship and Granz remained Peterson's manager for most of his career. One poignant illustration: in the last two years of his life, Peterson doted on a boxer dog that he named "Smedley," Peterson's nickname for Granz. On the day of Peterson's death, Smedley lay on the bed with him and would not leave.
This was more than a managerial relationship; Peterson praised Granz for standing up for him and other black jazz musicians in the segregationist south of the 1950s and 1960s. For example, in the Canadian Broadcasting Company's two-part documentary video ''Music in the Key of Oscar'', Peterson tells how Granz stood up to a gun-toting southern policeman who wanted to stop the trio from using "white-only" taxis. The entire documentary is a fascinating account of Peterson's life from his Montreal childhood, to his career, to his family relations and includes interviews with Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones and Ella Fitzgerald. Its narrative ends in 1993, just before Peterson's debilitating stroke.
In the course of his career, Peterson developed a reputation as a technically brilliant and melodically inventive jazz pianist and became a regular on Canadian radio from the 1940s. His name was already recognized in the United States. However, his 1949 debut at Carnegie Hall, New York City, arranged by Norman Granz, was uncredited; owing to union restrictions, his appearance could not be billed.
Through Granz's ''Jazz at the Philharmonic'' he was able to play with the major jazz artists of the time. Some of his musical associates included Ray Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Milt Jackson, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, Ed Thigpen, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Louis Armstrong, Stéphane Grappelli, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Clark Terry, Joe Pass, Anita O'Day, Fred Astaire, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Getz.
Duets
Peterson made numerous duo performances and recordings with bassists Ray Brown, Sam Jones, and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, guitarists Joe Pass, Irving Ashby, Herb Ellis, and Barney Kessel, pianists Count Basie, Herbie Hancock, Benny Green, and Keith Emerson, trumpeters Clark Terry and Louis Armstrong, and many other important jazz players. His 1950s duo recordings with bassist Ray Brown mark the formation of one of the longest lasting partnerships in the history of jazz. Peterson's 1970's duo with guitarist Joe Pass has been considered one of the highest standards in the genre.According to pianist/educator Mark Eisenman, some of Peterson's best playing was as an understated accompanist to singer Ella Fitzgerald and trumpeter Roy Eldridge.
Trio
Peterson redefined the jazz trio by bringing musicianship of all three members to the highest level. The definitive trio with Ray Brown and Herb Ellis was, in his own words "the most stimulating" and productive setting for public performances as well as in studio recordings. In the early 1950s, Peterson began performing with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as the Oscar Peterson Trio. Shortly afterward the drummer Smith was replaced by guitarist Irving Ashby, formerly of the Nat King Cole Trio. Ashby, who was a swing guitarist, was soon replaced by Barney Kessel. Kessel tired of touring after a year, and was succeeded by Herb Ellis. As Ellis was white, Peterson's trios were racially integrated, a controversial move at the time that was fraught with difficulties with segregationist whites and blacks.''Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival'' is widely regarded as the landmark album in Peterson's career, and one of the most influential trios in jazz. Their last recording, ''On the Town with the Oscar Peterson Trio'', recorded live at the Town Tavern in Toronto, captured a remarkable degree of emotional as well as musical understanding between three players. All three musicians were equal contributors involved in a highly sophisticated improvisational interplay. When Herb Ellis left the group in 1958, Peterson and Brown believed they could not adequately replace Ellis. Ellis was replaced by drummer Ed Thigpen in 1959. Brown and Thigpen worked with Peterson on his famous albums ''Night Train'' and the successful ''Canadiana Suite''. Brown and Thigpen left in 1965 and were replaced by bassist Sam Jones and drummer Louis Hayes (and later, drummer Bobby Durham). The trio performed together until 1970. Their albums included pop songs such as The Beatles' "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby". In the fall of 1970, Peterson's trio were successful in their album ''Tristeza on Piano'' which was a eulogy of the recently deceased Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, the Monterey Pop Festival stars. This record was released on CD in 1985, went out of print, and then came back remastered in 2005 as an anniversary edition. Selections from this trio's work have been incidentally used for Japanese anime and other live action films. Jones and Durham left in 1970.
In the 1970s Peterson formed another landmark trio with virtuoso guitarist Joe Pass and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen on bass. This trio emulated the success of the 1950s trio with Brown and Ellis, gave acclaimed performances at numerous festivals, and made best-selling recordings, most notably the 1978 double album recorded live in Paris. In 1974 Oscar added British drummer, Martin Drew, and this quartet toured and recorded extensively worldwide. Pass said in a 1976 interview: "The only guys I've heard who come close to total mastery of their instruments are Art Tatum and Peterson".
Quartet
A quartet was a less permanent setting for Peterson, after the trio or duo, as it was hard to find equally powerful musicians available for a tightly knit arrangement with him. After the loss of Ellis his next trio eventually turned into a quartet after he added a drummer — first Gene Gammage for a brief time, then Ed Thigpen. In this group Peterson became the dominant soloist. Later members of the group were Louis Hayes, Bobby Durham, Ray Price, Sam Jones, George Mraz, Martin Drew and Lorne Lofsky.Peterson often formed a quartet by adding a fourth player to his existing trios. He was open to experimental collaborations with jazz stars, such as saxophonist Ben Webster, trumpeter Clark Terry, and vibraphonist Milt Jackson among others. In 1961, the Peterson trio with Jackson recorded a highly praised album, ''Very Tall''.
Further career
From the late 1950s, when Peterson gained worldwide recognition as one of the leading pianists in jazz, he played in a variety of settings: solo, duo, trio, quartet, small bands, and big bands. However, his solo piano recitals, as well as his solo piano recordings were rare, until he chose to make a series of solo albums titled "Exclusively for my friends." These solo piano sessions, made for the Musik Produktion Schwarzwald (MPS) label, were Peterson's response to the emergence of such stars as Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner.Some cognoscenti assert that Peterson's best recordings were made for MPS in the late 1960s and early 1970s. For some years subsequently he recorded for Granz's Pablo Records after the label was founded in 1973. In the 1990s and 2000s he recorded several albums accompanied by a combo for Telarc.
In the 1980s he played successfully in a duo with pianist Herbie Hancock. In the late 1980s and 1990s, after the stroke, Peterson made performances and recordings with his protégé Benny Green.
Composer and teacher
Peterson wrote pieces for piano, for trio, for quartet and for big band. He also wrote several songs, and made recordings as a singer. Probably his best-known compositions are "Canadiana Suite" and "Hymn to Freedom," the latter composed in the 1960s and inspired by the U.S. civil rights movement.Peterson taught piano and improvisation in Canada, mainly in Toronto. With associates, he started and headed the Advanced School of Contemporary Music in Toronto for five years during the 1960s, but it closed because concert touring called him and his associates away, and it did not have government funding. Later, he mentored the York University jazz program and was the Chancellor of the entire university for several years in the early 1990s. He also published his original jazz piano etudes for practice. However, he asked his students to study the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, especially ''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', the ''Goldberg Variations'', and ''The Art of Fugue'', considering these piano pieces essential for every serious pianist. Pianists Benny Green and Oliver Jones were among his students.
Stroke, later years and death
Peterson had arthritis since his youth, and in later years could hardly button his shirt. Never slender, his weight increased to , hindering his mobility. He had hip replacement surgery in the early 1990s. Although the surgery was successful, his mobility was still inhibited. Somewhat later, in 1993, Peterson suffered a serious stroke that weakened his left side and sidelined him for two years. Also in 1993 incoming Prime Minister and longtime Peterson fan and friend Jean Chrétien offered Peterson the position of Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, but according to Chrétien he declined, citing the health problems from his recent stroke.After the stroke, Peterson recuperated for about two years. He gradually regained mobility and some control of his left hand. However, his virtuosity was never restored to the original level, and his playing after his stroke relied principally on his right hand. In 1995 he returned to public performances on a limited basis, and also made several live and studio recordings for Telarc. In 1997 he received a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement and an International Jazz Hall of Fame Award, another indication that Peterson continued to be regarded as one of the greatest jazz musicians ever to play. Canadian politician, friend, and amateur pianist Bob Rae contends that "a one-handed Oscar was better than just about anyone with two hands".
In 2003, Peterson recorded the DVD ''A Night in Vienna'' for Verve, with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (NHØP), Ulf Wakenius and Martin Drew. He continued to tour the U.S. and Europe, though maximally one month a year, with a couple of days' rest between concerts to recover his strength. His accompanists consisted of Ulf Wakenius (guitar), NHØP or David Young (bass), and Alvin Queen (drums), all leaders of their own groups.
Peterson's health declined rapidly in 2007. He had to cancel his performance at the 2007 Toronto Jazz Festival and his attendance at a June 8, 2007 Carnegie Hall all-star performance in his honour, owing to illness. On December 23, 2007, Peterson died of kidney failure at his home in Mississauga, Ontario. He left seven children, his fourth wife Kelly, and their daughter, Celine (born 1991).
Awards and recognition
Musical awards and recognition
''Begone Dull Care'' is an abstract film presentation of Peterson's music, released in 1949.His work earned him eight Grammy awards over the years and he was elected to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1978. He also belongs to the Juno Awards Hall of Fame and the Canadian Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame.
Peterson received the first Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award from Black Theatre Workshop (1986), Roy Thomson Award (1987), a Toronto Arts Award for lifetime achievement (1991), the Governor General's Performing Arts Award (1992), the Glenn Gould Prize (1993), the award of the International Society for Performing Artists (1995), the Loyola Medal of Concordia University (1997), the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1997), the Praemium Imperiale World Art Award (1999), the UNESCO Music Prize (2000), the Toronto Musicians' Association Musician of the Year award (2001), and an honorary LLD from the University of the West Indies (2006).
In 1999, Concordia University in Montreal renamed their Loyola-campus concert hall Oscar Peterson Concert Hall in his honour.
In 2005, Peterson celebrated his 80th birthday at the HMV flagship store in Toronto, where a crowd of about 200 gathered to celebrate with him. Long time admirer, and fellow Canadian Diana Krall, sang "Happy Birthday" to him and also performed a vocal version of one of Peterson's songs "When Summer Comes". The lyrics for this version were written by Elvis Costello, Krall's husband. Canada Post unveiled a commemorative postage stamp in his honour. The event was covered by a live radio broadcast by Toronto jazz station, JAZZ.FM.
Peterson received the BBC-Radio Lifetime Achievement Award, London, England.
"Technique is something you use to make your ideas listenable," he once told jazz writer Len Lyons. "You learn to play the instrument so you have a musical vocabulary, and you practice to get your technique to the point you need to express yourself, depending on how heavy your ideas are."
"Some may criticize Peterson for not advancing, for finding his niche and staying with it for an entire career, but while he may not be the most revolutionary artist in jazz, the documentary ''Music in the Key of Oscar'' demonstrates that breaking down barriers can be accomplished in more ways than one." "He was a crystallizer, rather than an innovator."
""His hands could do things few piano players can do," said pianist Bill King who studied with Peterson at his music school. Because Peterson was a big man — six feet three inches — he could stretch his hands over a keyboard in a way few musicians can match.
Ray Charles, in ''Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues - Piano Blues'' (2003), said "Oscar Peterson is a mother fucking piano player!"
Recognition in Canada
While Peterson was recognized as a great jazz pianist both at home in Canada and internationally, he was also regarded in Canada as a distinguished public figure. His notable personage is evident in the acclaim and awards he received, particularly in the latter two decades of his life.He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (the country's highest civilian state order for talent and service) in 1972, and promoted to Companion of the order (the highest degree of merit and humanity), in 1984. He was also a member of the Order of Ontario, a Chevalier of the National Order of Quebec, and an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.
From 1991 to 1994, Peterson was chancellor of York University in Toronto. The chancellor is the titular head of the university. Weeks after his death, the Province of Ontario announced a C$4 million scholarship for the "Oscar Peterson Chair" for Jazz Performance at York University with an additional C$1 million to be awarded annually in music scholarships to underprivileged York students in tribute to Peterson.
Peterson's niece, television journalist Sylvia Sweeney, produced an award-winning documentary film, ''In the Key of Oscar'', about Peterson in 1992.
Unlike most other jazz musicians, Oscar Peterson was networked with Canadian elites in the later years of his life. For example, former Ontario premier Bob Rae recalled that in 2007, himself, Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry, and former Ontario premier Bill Davis celebrated McMurtry's retirement with Peterson, his wife, and their wives.
Peterson received honorary doctorates from many Canadian universities: Carleton University, Queen's University, Concordia University, McMaster University, Mount Allison University, the University of Victoria, the University of Western Ontario, York University, the University of Toronto, and the Université Laval, as well as from Northwestern University and Niagara University in the United States.
In 2004, the City of Toronto named the courtyard of the Toronto-Dominion Centre ''Oscar Peterson Square''.
In 2005, the Peel District School Board in suburban Toronto opened the Oscar Peterson school in Mississauga, Ontario, two miles from his home. Peterson said, "This is a most unexpected and moving tribute." He visited the school several times and donated electronic musical equipment to it. Soon after Peterson's death, the University of Toronto Mississauga opened a major student residence in March 2008 as "Oscar Peterson Hall".
Former Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien wanted in 1993 to put Peterson forward to the Governor General of Canada for appointment to the post of Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, but Peterson felt that his health could not stand up to the many ceremonial duties that this position would require. "He was the most famous Canadian in the world," said Chrétien. Chrétien also said that Nelson Mandela glowed when meeting Peterson. "It was very emotional. They were both moved to meet each other. These were two men with humble beginnings who rose to very illustrious levels."
A major memorial concert, held on January 12, 2008, filled the 2500-seat Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto. People had queued for more than three hours to get in. Governor General Michaëlle Jean reported at the concert that "thousands" more could not get in. Among the performers were Grégory Charles, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Phil Nimmons and singers Audrey Morris and Nancy Wilson. The "Oscar Peterson" quartet played key pieces; they are Monty Alexander, Jeff Hamilton, Ulf Wakenius and Dave Young. All toured with Peterson during his late "one-handed" period" except Alexander. The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, University of Toronto Gospel Choir and Sharon Riley & the Faith Chorale, under the direction of Andrew Craid along with opera soprano Measha Brueggergosman closed the show, singing an excerpt from Peterson's "Hymn to Freedom". The show was made available for download.
In 2008, a young pianist named Connor Derraugh in Winnipeg, Manitoba wrote a tribute song to Oscar Peterson. He would later play it at an Oscar Peterson tribute concert at a local church and receive a standing ovation. The event was broadcasted on CBC Radio.
A movement was begun on Facebook to rename the Lionel-Groulx Metro station, a transfer station between Montreal's Green Line and Orange Line, in honour of Oscar Peterson. The Montreal Transit Corporation, however, has refused to end its moratorium on renaming Metro stations. The city's policy on landmark tributes is to wait at least a year after a public figure's death.
An Ontario school named Oscar Peterson Public School was opened in Stouffville in the Regional Municipality of York on 30 April 2009, and commenced operation in the 2009-2010 school year.
Grammy Awards
Honorary Degrees Conferred
Instruments
Discography
See also
References
External links
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| name | Clark Terry |
|---|---|
| background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| birth date | December 14, 1920 |
| Birth place | St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| instrument | Trumpet, flugelhorn |
| genre | Swing, bop, jazz |
| occupation | Musician |
| years active | 1940s–present |
| notable instruments | }} |
Clark Terry (born December 14, 1920) is an American swing and bop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, educator, NEA Jazz Masters inductee, and recipient of the 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Only three other trumpet players in history have ever received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award: Louis Armstrong (Clark's old mentor), Miles Davis (whom Clark mentored), and Dizzy Gillespie (who often described Clark as the greatest jazz trumpet player on earth). Clark Terry is one of the most prolific jazz musicians in history, having appeared on 905 known recording sessions, which makes him the most recorded trumpet player of all time. In comparison, Louis Armstrong performed on 620 sessions, Harry "Sweets" Edison on 563, and Dizzy Gillespie on 501.
He has played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948–1951), Duke Ellington (1951–1959) and Quincy Jones (1960), and has recorded regularly both as a leader and sideman. In all, his career in jazz spans more than sixty years.
Biography
Terry was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Vashon High School and began his professional career in the early 1940s playing, in local clubs. He served as a bandsman in the United States Navy during World War II.Terry's years with Basie and Ellington in the late 1940s and 1950s established him as a world-class jazz artist. Blending the St. Louis tone with contemporary styles, Terry’s sound influenced a generation. During this period, he took part in many of Ellington's suites and acquired a reputation for his wide range of styles (from swing to hard bop), technical proficiency, and good humor. Terry exerted a positive influence on musicians like Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, both of whom acknowledge Clark's influence during the early stages of their careers. Terry had informally taught Davis while they were still in St Louis.
After leaving Ellington, Clark's international recognition soared when he accepted an offer from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) to become its first African-American staff musician. He appeared for ten years on ''The Tonight Show'' as a member of the Tonight Show Band, first led by Skitch Henderson and later by Doc Severinsen, where his unique "mumbling" scat singing became famous when he scored a hit with "Mumbles." A persistent rumor is that Terry was a candidate to lead the band, but for racial skittishness on the part of NBC.
Terry continued to play with musicians such as J. J. Johnson and Oscar Peterson, and led a group with Bob Brookmeyer that achieved popularity in the early 1960s. In the 1970s, Terry concentrated increasingly on the flugelhorn, which he plays with a full, ringing tone. In addition to his studio work and teaching at jazz workshops, Terry toured regularly in the 1980s with small groups (including Peterson's) and performed as the leader of his Big B-A-D Band (formed about 1970). After financial difficulties forced him to break up the Big B-A-D Band, he performed bands such as the Unifour Jazz Ensemble. His humor and command of jazz trumpet styles are apparent in his "dialogues" with himself, on different instruments or on the same instrument, muted and unmuted. He has occasionally performed solos on a trumpet or flugelhorn mouthpiece.
From the 1970s through the 1990s, Clark performed at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and Lincoln Center, toured with the Newport Jazz All Stars and Jazz at the Philharmonic, and he was featured with Skitch Henderson's New York Pops Orchestra. In 1998, Terry recorded George Gershwin's "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album ''Red Hot + Rhapsody'', a tribute to George Gershwin, which raised money for various charities devoted to increasing AIDS awareness and fighting the disease. In 2001, he again recorded for the Red Hot Organization with artist Amel Larrieux for the compilation album ''Red Hot + Indigo'', a tribute to Duke Ellington.
Prompted early in his career by Dr. Billy Taylor, Clark and Milt Hinton bought instruments for and gave instruction to young hopefuls which planted the seed that became Jazz Mobile in Harlem. This venture tugged at Clark's greatest love: involving youth in the perpetuation of jazz. Between global performances, Clark continues to share wholeheartedly his jazz expertise and encourage students, including up-and-coming young jazz trumpeter, Josh Shpak. Since 2000, Clark has hosted Clark Terry Jazz Festivals on land and sea, held his own jazz camps, and appeared in more than fifty jazz festivals on six continents.
His career as both leader and sideman with more than three hundred recordings demonstrates that he is one of the most prolific luminaries in jazz. Clark composed more than two hundred jazz songs and performed for seven U.S. Presidents.
He also has several recordings with major groups including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Dutch Metropole Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, hundreds of high school and college ensembles, his own duos, trios, quartets, quintets, sextets, octets, and two big bands: Clark Terry's Big Bad Band and Clark Terry's Young Titans of Jazz, with the likes of Branford Marsalis, Conrad Herwig, Brad Leali, Stephen Guerra, Adam Schroeder, Frank Greene and Tony Lujan. The Clark Terry Archive at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, contains instruments, tour posters, awards, original copies of over 70 big band arrangements, recordings and other memorabilia.
Terry was a long-time resident of Bayside, Queens, and Corona, Queens, New York. He and his wife, Gwen, later moved to Haworth, New Jersey. They currently reside in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Awards and honors
Discography
As leader
As sideman
With Gary Burton
Bibliography
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| background | solo_singer |
|---|---|
| birth name | Ray Charles Robinson |
| origin | Greenville, Florida, United States |
| birth date | September 23, 1930 |
| birth place | Albany, Georgia, United States |
| death date | June 10, 2004 |
| death place | Beverly Hills, California, United States |
| instrument | Vocals, piano, keyboards, alto saxophone, trombone |
| genre | Rhythm and blues, soul, blues, rock and roll, jazz, country, pop, gospel |
| occupation | Composer, musician, arranger, bandleader |
| years active | 1947–2004 |
| label | Atlantic, ABC, Warner Bros., Swing Time, Concord, Columbia, Flashback |
| associated acts | The Raelettes, Quincy Jones, Betty Carter, Marvin Gaye, Billy Joel, James Brown, Little Richard |
| website | Official website }} |
The influences upon his music were mainly jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and country artists of the day such as Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, Louis Jordan, Charles Brown, Louis Armstrong. His playing reflected influences from country blues and barrelhouse, and stride piano styles.
''Rolling Stone'' ranked Charles number ten on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don't know if Ray was the architect of rock & roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things . . . Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?"
Early life: 1930–1945
Ray Charles Robinson was the son of Aretha Robinson, a sharecropper, and Bailey Robinson, a railroad repair man, mechanic and handyman. Aretha Robinson was a devout Christian and the family attended the New Shiloh Baptist Church. When Ray was an infant, his family moved from Albany, Georgia, where he was born, to the poor black community on the western side of Greenville, Florida. In his early years, Charles showed a curiosity for mechanical things and he often watched the neighborhood men working on their cars and farm machinery. His musical curiosity was sparked at Mr. Wiley Pit's Red Wing Cafe when Pit played boogie woogie on an old upright piano. Pit would care for George, Ray's brother, so as to take the burden off Williams. However, George drowned in the Williams' bath tub when he was four years old. After witnessing the death of his brother, Ray would feel an overwhelming sense of guilt later on in life.Charles started to lose his sight at the age of five. He went completely blind by the age of seven, apparently due to glaucoma. He attended school at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine from 1937 to 1945, where he developed his musical talent. During this time he performed on WFOY radio in St. Augustine. His father died when he was 10 and his mother died five years after.
In school, Charles was taught only classical music, but he wanted to play the jazz and blues he heard on the family radio. While at school, he became the school's premier musician. On Fridays, the South Campus Literary Society held assemblies where Charles would play piano and sing popular songs. On Halloween and Washington's birthday, the Colored Department of the school had socials where Charles would play. It was here he established "RC Robinson and the Shop Boys" and sang his own arrangement of "Jingle Bell Boogie." He spent his first Christmas at the school, but later the staff pitched in so that Charles could return to Greenville, as he did each summer.
Henry and Alice Johnson, who owned a store not unlike Mr. Pit's store in Greenville, moved to the French town section of Tallahassee, just west of Greenville; and they, as well as Freddy and Margaret Bryant, took Charles in. He worked the register in the Bryants' store under the direction of Lucille Bryant, their daughter. It's said he loved Tallahassee and often used the drug store delivery boy's motorbike to run up and down hills using the exhaust sound of a friend's bike to guide him. Charles found Tallahassee musically exciting too and sat in with the Florida A&M; University student band. He played with the Adderley brothers, Nat and Cannonball, and began playing gigs with Lawyer Smith and his Band in 1943 at the Red Bird Club and Deluxe Clubs in Frenchtown and roadhouse theaters around Tallahassee, as well as the Governor's Ball.
Career
Early career: 1946–1952
After his mother died in 1946, Charles was 15 years old and didn't return to school. He lived in Jacksonville with a couple who were friends of his mother. For over a year, he played the piano for bands at the Ritz Theatre in LaVilla, earning $4 a night. Then he moved to Orlando, and later Tampa, where he played with a southern band called The Florida Playboys. This is where he began his habit of always wearing sunglasses, made by designer Billy Stickles.Charles had always played for other people, but he wanted his own band. He decided to leave Florida for a large city, but Chicago and New York City were too big. After asking a friend to look in a map and note the city in the United States that was farthest from Florida, he moved to Seattle in 1947 (where he first met and befriended, under the tutelage of Robert Blackwell, a 14-year-old Quincy Jones) and soon started recording, first for the Down Beat label as the Maxin Trio with guitarist G.D. McKee and bassist Milton Garrett, achieving his first hit with "Confession Blues" in 1949. The song soared to No. 2 on the R&B; charts. He joined Swing Time Records and under his own name ("Ray Charles" to avoid being confused with boxer Sugar Ray Robinson) recorded two more R&B; hits, "Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand" (No. 5) in 1951 and "Kissa Me Baby" (No. 8) in 1952. The following year, Swing Time folded and Ahmet Ertegün signed him to Atlantic Records.
Atlantic Records: 1953–1958
Charles laid low from recording until early 1953 as Atlantic executives cleared out Charles' contract with Swingtime. Charles began recording jump blues and boogie-woogie style recordings as well as slower blues ballads where he continued to show the vocal influences of Nat "King" Cole and Charles Brown. "Mess Around" became Charles' first Atlantic hit in 1953 and he later had hits the following year with "It Should Have Been Me" and "Don't You Know". He also recorded the songs, "Midnight Hour" and "Sinner's Prayer". Some elements of his own vocal style showed up in "Sinner's Prayer", "Mess Around" and "Don't You Know".Late in 1954, Charles recorded his own composition, "I Got a Woman" and the song became Charles' first number-one R&B; hit in 1955 and brought him to national prominence. The elements of "I Got a Woman" included a mixture of gospel, jazz and blues elements that would later prove to be seminal in the development of rock 'n' roll and soul music. He repeated this pattern throughout 1955 continuing through 1958 with records such as "This Little Girl of Mine", "Drown in My Own Tears", "Lonely Avenue", "A Fool For You" and "The Night Time (Is the Right Time)".
However, Charles didn't stop his ambitions of jazz recording a couple of instrumental jazz albums with vibraphonist Milt Jackson while also promoting his R&B; career. By 1958, Charles was not only headlining black venues such as The Apollo Theater and The Uptown Theater but also bigger venues such as The Newport Jazz Festival. It was at the Newport festival where he cut his first live album. In 1956, Charles recruited a young all-female singing group named the Cookies, and reshaped them as The Raelettes. Before then, Charles had used his wife and other musicians to back him up on recordings such as "This Little Girl of Mine" and "Drown In My Own Tears". The Raelettes' first recording session with Charles was on the bluesy-gospel inflected "Leave My Woman Alone".
Crossover success: 1959–1967
Charles reached the pinnacle of his success at Atlantic with the release of "What'd I Say", a complex song that combined gospel, jazz, blues and Latin music and a song that Charles would later say he composed spontaneously as he was performing in clubs and dances with his small band. Despite some radio stations banning the song because of its sexually suggestive lyrics, the song became a crossover top ten pop record, Charles' first record to do so. Later in 1959, Charles recorded and released his first country song, a cover of Hank Snow's "Movin' On", and had recorded three more albums for the label including a jazz record (later released in 1961 as ''The Genius After Hours''), a blues record (released in 1961 as ''The Genius Sings the Blues'') and a traditional pop/big band record (''The Genius of Ray Charles''). ''The Genius of Ray Charles'' provided his first top 40 album entry where it peaked at #17 and was later held as a landmark record in Charles' career but Charles saw a bigger opportunity following his Atlantic contract expiring in the fall of 1959 when several big labels offered him record deals.Choosing not to renegotiate his contract with Atlantic, Ray Charles signed with ABC-Paramount Records in November 1959, obtaining a much more liberal contract than other artists had at the time. Following the success of "What'd I Say" and ''The Genius of Ray Charles'', ABC offered Charles a $ 50,000 annual advance, higher royalties than previously offered and eventual ownership of his masters — a very valuable and lucrative deal at the time. During his Atlantic years, Charles was heralded for his own inventive compositions, however, by the time of the release of the instrumental jazz LP ''Genius + Soul = Jazz'' (1960) for ABC's subsidiary label Impulse!, Charles had virtually given up on writing original material and had begun to follow his eclectic impulses as an interpreter.
With his first hit single for ABC-Paramount, Charles received national acclaim and a Grammy Award for the Sid Feller-produced "Georgia on My Mind", originally written by composers Stuart Gorrell and Hoagy Carmichael, released as a single by Charles in 1960. The song served as Charles's first work with Feller, who arranged and conducted the recording. Charles also earned another Grammy for the follow-up "Hit the Road Jack", written by R&B; singer Percy Mayfield. By late 1961, Charles had expanded his small road ensemble to a full-scale big band, partly as a response to increasing royalties and touring fees, becoming one of the few black artists to crossover into mainstream pop with such a level of creative control. This success, however, came to a momentary halt in November 1961, as a police search of Charles's hotel room in Indianapolis, Indiana during a concert tour led to the discovery of heroin in his medicine cabinet. The case was eventually dropped, as the search lacked a proper warrant by the police, and Charles soon returned his focus on music and recording.
The 1962 album, ''Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music'' and its sequel ''Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Vol. 2'', helped to bring country into the mainstream of music. His version of the Don Gibson song, ''I Can't Stop Loving You'' topped the Pop chart for five weeks and stayed at No. 1 R&B; for ten weeks in 1962. It also gave him his only number one record in the UK. In 1962, he founded his own record label, Tangerine Records, which ABC-Paramount promoted and distributed. He also had major pop hits in 1963 with "Busted" (US No. 4) and ''Take These Chains From My Heart'' (US No. 8). With the rise of younger soul performers such as James Brown, Otis Redding and Motown singers such as Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye and its own blind artist, Stevie Wonder, Charles' successes on the pop and R&B; charts peaked after 1964 though he remained a huge concert draw.
Later years: 1967-2004
By 1967, Charles' commercial success had begun peaking on both pop and R&B; charts though he would remain a concert draw both in the states and overseas. In 1965, Charles' career after being arrested for a third time for heroin halted after he agreed to go to rehab to avoid jail time. Charles kicked his habit at a clinic in Los Angeles. After spending a year on parole, Charles reemerged on the charts in 1966 with a series of hits composed with the fledgling team of Ashford & Simpson including the dance number, "I Don't Need No Doctor" (later covered in a hard rock style by British supergroup Humble Pie), "Let's Go Get Stoned", which became his first #1 R&B; hit in several years, and "Crying Time", which reached #6 on the pop chart and later helped Charles win a Grammy Award the following March.In 1967, he had a top twenty hit with another ballad, "Here We Go Again". Charles' renewed chart success, however, proved to be short lived and by the late 1960s his music was rarely played on radio stations partly due to the rise of psychedelic rock and harder forms of rock and R&B; music and also due to Charles choosing to record pop standards and covers of then-modern day rock and soul hits as he had no desire to write due to him earning masters. Most of his recordings between 1966 and 1973 were either received well or poorly. Nonetheless, Charles continued to have an active recording career. Charles' 1972 album, ''Message from the People'', included his unique gospel-influenced version of "America the Beautiful". In 1974, he left ABC Records and recorded several albums on his own Crossover Records label. His 1975 recording of Stevie Wonder's hit, "Living for the City" later helped Charles win another Grammy.
In 1977, he reunited with Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler and re-signed to Atlantic Records where he recorded the album, ''True to Life''. However, the label had now begun focusing on rock acts and some of the label's prominent soul artists such as Aretha Franklin were starting to be neglected. Charles stayed with his old label until 1980. In November 1977 he appeared as the host of NBC's ''Saturday Night Live''. In April of 1979, Charles' version of "Georgia On My Mind" was proclaimed the state song of Georgia. An emotional Charles performed the song on the floor of the state legislature. Though he notably supported the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1960s, Charles would be criticized for performing at South Africa's Sun City resort in 1981 during an international boycott of its apartheid policy. In 1983, Charles signed a contract with Columbia Records and recorded a string of country albums. Charles also began having a string of country hits often with duet singers such as George Jones, Chet Atkins, B.J. Thomas, Mickey Gilley, Hank Williams, Jr. and lifelong friend Willie Nelson, for which he recorded the #1 country duet, "Seven Spanish Angels". After 1987, his Columbia contract ended and Charles returned to recording pop music after signing with Warner Bros. Records. Prior to the release of his first Warner release, ''Would You Believe'', Charles made a return on the R&B; charts with a cover of The Brothers Johnson's "I'll Be Good to You", a duet with his lifelong buddy Quincy Jones and singer Chaka Khan. The song hit number-one on the R&B; charts in 1990 and won Charles and Khan a Grammy for their dual work. Prior to this, Charles returned on the pop charts in another duet, with singer Billy Joel on the song, "Baby Grand" and in 1989, recorded a cover of the Southern All Stars' "Itoshi no Ellie", releasign it as "Ellie My Love" for a Japanese TV ad for Suntory releasing it in Japan where it reached #3 on its Oricon chart. Charles' 1993 album, ''My World'' became his first album in some time to reach the Billboard 200 and his cover of Leon Russell's "A Song for You" gave him a charted hit on the adult contemporary chart as well as his twelfth and final Grammy he would receive in his lifetime.
By the beginning of the 1980s, Charles would reach younger audiences by appearances in various films and TV shows. In 1980, he made a cameo on the film, ''The Blues Brothers''. While he never appeared on the show, Charles' version of "Night Time is the Right Time" was played during the popular "Cosby Show" episode, "Happy Anniversary". In 1985, he appeared among a slew of other popular musicians in the USA for Africa charity recording, "We Are the World". Charles' popularity increased among younger audiences in 1991 after he appeared where he popularized the catchphrase "You Got the Right One, Baby" The catchphrase came from a song that was composed by Kenny Ascher, Joseph C. Caro and Helary Jay Lipsitz.
Charles also appeared at two Presidential inaugurations in his lifetime. In 1985, he performed for Ronald Reagan's second inauguration, and in 1993 for Bill Clinton's first. In the late 1980s/early 1990s, Charles made appearances on the Super Dave Osbourne TV show, where he performed and appeared in a few vignettes where he was somehow driving a car, often as Super Dave's chauffeur. During the sixth season of ''Designing Women'', Charles sang "Georgia on My Mind", instead of the song being rendered instrumentally by other musicians as in the previous five seasons. He also appeared in 4 episodes of the popular TV comedy ''The Nanny'' in Seasons 4 & 5 (1997 & 1998) as 'Sammy', in one episode singing "My Yiddish Mamma" to December romance and later fiancee of character Gramma Yetta, played by veteran actress Ann Guilbert. From 2001-2002, Charles appeared in commercials for the New Jersey Lottery to promote its "For every dream, there's a jackpot" campaign.
In 2003, Ray Charles headlined the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, D.C. where the President, First Lady, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice attended. He also presented one of his greatest admirers, Van Morrison, with his award upon being inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the two sang Morrison's song "Crazy Love". This performance appears on Morrison's 2007 album, ''The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3''. In 2003 Charles performed "Georgia On My Mind" and "America the Beautiful" at a televised annual electronic media journalist banquet held in Washington, D.C. His final public appearance came on April 30, 2004, at the dedication of his music studio as a historic landmark in the city of Los Angeles.
Personal life
Family
Charles was married twice and had 12 children with nine different women. His first marriage to Eileen Williams was brief: July 31, 1951 to 1952. He had three children from his second marriage, to Della Beatrice Howard Robinson from April 5, 1955 to 1977. His long term girlfriend and partner at the time of his death was Norma Pinella.A list of his children:
Charles gave 10 of his 12 children checks for one million USD in December 2002 at a family luncheon, while the other two could not make it.
Substance abuse and legal issues
On November 14, 1961, Charles was arrested on a narcotics charge in an Indiana hotel room, where he waited to perform. The detectives seized heroin, marijuana, and other items. Charles, then 31, stated that he had been a drug addict since the age of 16. While the case was dismissed because of the manner in which the evidence was obtained, Charles's situation did not improve until a few years later. Individuals such as Quincy Jones and Reverend Henry Griffin felt that those around Charles were responsible for his drug use.By 1964 Charles' drug addiction caught up with him and he was arrested for possession of marijuana and heroin. Following a self-imposed stay at St. Francis Hospital in Lynwood, California, Charles received five years' probation. Charles responded to the saga of his drug use and reform with the songs "I Don't Need No Doctor", "Let's Go Get Stoned", and the release of his first album since having kicked his heroin addiction in 1966, ''Crying Time''.
Other interests
Charles played chess using a special board with holes for the pieces and raised squares. Charles referred to Willie Nelson as "my chess partner" in a 1991 concert. In 2002, he played and lost to American Grandmaster and former U.S. Champion Larry Evans.
Death
Charles died on June 10, 2004 at 11:35 a.m. of liver disease at his home in Beverly Hills, California, surrounded by family and friends. He was 73 years old. His body was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery.His final album, ''Genius Loves Company'', released two months after his death, consists of duets with various admirers and contemporaries: B.B. King, Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, James Taylor, Gladys Knight, Michael McDonald, Natalie Cole, Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Diana Krall, Norah Jones, and Johnny Mathis. The album won eight Grammy Awards, including five for Ray Charles for Best Pop Vocal Album, Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Here We Go Again" with Norah Jones, and Best Gospel Performance for "Heaven Help Us All" with Gladys Knight; he also received nods for his duets with Elton John and B.B. King. The album included a version of Harold Arlen's "Over the Rainbow", sung as a duet by Charles and Johnny Mathis; this record was played at his memorial service.
Two more posthumous albums, ''Genius & Friends'' (2005) and ''Ray Sings, Basie Swings'' (2006), were released. ''Genius & Friends'' consisted of duets recorded from 1997 to 2005 with his choice of artists. ''Ray Sings, Basie Swings'' consists of archived vocals of Ray Charles from live mid-1970s performances added to new instrumental tracks specially recorded by the contemporary Count Basie Orchestra and other musicians. Charles's vocals recorded from the concert mixing board were added to new accompaniments to create a "fantasy concert" recording.
Legacy
Charles possessed one of the most recognizable voices in American music. In the words of musicologist Henry Pleasants:
Sinatra, and Bing Crosby before him, had been masters of words. Ray Charles is a master of sounds. His records disclose an extraordinary assortment of slurs, glides, turns, shrieks, wails, breaks, shouts, screams and hollers, all wonderfully controlled, disciplined by inspired musicianship, and harnessed to ingenious subtleties of harmony, dynamics and rhythm... It is either the singing of a man whose vocabulary is inadequate to express what is in his heart and mind or of one whose feelings are too intense for satisfactory verbal or conventionally melodic articulation. He can’t tell it to you. He can’t even sing it to you. He has to cry out to you, or shout to you, in tones eloquent of despair — or exaltation. The voice alone, with little assistance from the text or the notated music, conveys the message.
Ray Charles is usually described as a baritone, and his speaking voice would suggest as much, as would the difficulty he experiences in reaching and sustaining the baritone's high E and F in a popular ballad. But the voice undergoes some sort of transfiguration under stress, and in music of gospel or blues character he can and does sing for measures on end in the high tenor range of A, B flat, B, C and ev in full voice, sometimes in an ecstatic head voice, sometimes in falsetto. In falsetto he continues up to E and F above high C. On one extraordinary record, "I’m Going Down to the River’ . . . he hits an incredible B flat . . . giving him an overall range, including the falsetto extension, of at least three octaves.
In 1979, Charles was one of the first of the Georgia State Music Hall of Fame to be recognized as a musician born in the state. Ray's version of "Georgia On My Mind" was made the official state song for Georgia. In 1981, he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was one of the first inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at its inaugural ceremony in 1986. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986.
In 1987, he was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1991, he was inducted to the Rhythm & Blues Foundation. In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. In 1998 he was awarded the Polar Music Prize together with Ravi Shankar in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2004 he was inducted to the Jazz Hall of Fame, and inducted to the National Black Sports & Entertainment Hall of Fame. The Grammy Awards of 2005 were dedicated to Charles.
On December 7, 2007, Ray Charles Plaza was opened in Albany, Georgia, with a revolving, lighted bronze sculpture of Charles seated at a piano. Later that month, on December 26, 2007, Ray Charles was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame. He was also presented with the George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, during the 1991 UCLA Spring Sing.
In 2003, Charles was awarded an honorary degree by Dillard University. Upon his death, he endowed a professorship of African-American culinary history at the school, which is the first such chair in the nation. A $20 million performing arts center at Morehouse College was named after Charles and was dedicated in September 2010.
The biopic ''Ray'', released in October 2004, portrays his life and career between 1930 and 1979 and stars Jamie Foxx as Charles. Foxx won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor for the role.
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Frank Isaac Robinson (born 28 December 1938), known in his early career as a musician as Sugar Chile Robinson, is an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist, singer, and later psychologist, whose career began as a child prodigy.
Robinson was born in Detroit, Michigan. At an early age he showed unusual gifts singing the blues and accompanying himself on the piano. He won a talent show at the Paradise Theatre in Detroit at the age of three, and in 1945 played guest spots at the theatre with Lionel Hampton, who was prevented by child protection legislation from taking him on tour with him. However, he performed on radio with Hampton and Harry "The Hipster" Gibson, and also appeared as himself in the Hollywood film ''No Leave, No Love'', starring Van Johnson and Keenan Wynn. In 1946, he played for President Harry S. Truman at the White House, shouting out "How'm I Doin', Mr President?" - which became his catchphrase - during his performance of "Caldonia". He began touring major theatres, setting box office records in Detroit and California. In 1949 he was given special permission to join the American Federation of Musicians and record, his first releases on Capitol Records, "Numbers Boogie" and "Caldonia", both reaching the ''Billboard'' R&B; chart. In 1950, he toured and appeared on television with Count Basie, and appeared in a short film '''Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet.'' The following year, he toured the UK, appearing at the London Palladium. He stopped recording in 1952, later explaining:
"I wanted to go to school... I wanted some school background in me and I asked my Dad if I could stop, and I went to school because I honestly wanted my college diploma."
Until 1956 he continued to make occasional appearances as a jazz musician, billed as Frank Robinson, and performed on one occasion with Gerry Mulligan, but then gave up his musical career entirely. Continuing his academic studies, he earned a degree in history from Olivet College and one in psychology from the Detroit Institute of Technology. In the 1960s, he worked for WGPR-TV, and also helped set up small record labels in Detroit and opened a recording studio.
In recent years he has made a comeback as a musician with the help of the American Music Research Foundation. In 2002, he appeared at a special concert celebrating Detroit music, and in 2007 he traveled to Britain to appear at a rock and roll weekend festival.
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featuring Count Basie All Stars: Emmett Berry, Doc Cheatham, Joe Newman, Joe Wilder (tp); Roy Eldridge (tp, flhn); Vic Dickinson, Benny Morton, Dicky Wells (tb); Earl Warren (as); Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster (ts); Gerry Mulligan (bs); Count Basie (p); Freddie Green (g); Eddie Jones (b); Jo Jones (d)
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