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Basie
William, known as Count Basie. 1904--84, US jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer: associated particularly with the polished phrasing and style of big-band jazz


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Eventually he got a call from a high school friend, trumpeter Clark Terry, who asked him to join the Count Basie Band.
A weekly snapshot of creative people living in the Las Vegas Valley by Kristen Peterson / Las Vegas Sun
00 Hardcover ML419 Kansas City trumpeter Oran Page played with Count Basie during his early days, and later with Artie Shaw, starred on New York's 52nd Street, and eventually became a pioneer in the rhythm and blues scene of the 1950s.
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But despite such lucrative enterprises, it was Hefti's earlier work with the Woody Herman and Count Basie Orchestras - adapting the restless energies of bebop to give big-band swing a new lease of life - for which he is revered.
Neal Hefti by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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