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Hace 4 días · Three of the most legendary jazz musicians of all time are the focus of a new book from author Larry Tye. It’s titled “The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie ...
Hace 4 días · At the “home,” he found mentors, father-figures and love, and he discovered music. For years, Bill “Count” Basie insisted that he’d grown up with “no-drama, no-mystery, and nobody’s business but his,” but the truth was “sanitized.” He hated school and dropped out in junior high, hoping to join the circus.
Hace 5 días · by Matt Micucci. “One O’Clock Jump” was composed by Count Basie in 1937, in collaboration with saxophonist Buster Smith and arranger Eddie Durham. Basie had been a member of a band led by pianist Benny Moten for several years. When Moten died in 1935, Basie took over the band and developed it as his own.
Hace 3 días · EDITORIAL: Remembering an Orangeburg music legend. The Times and Democrat. 5 hrs ago. Legendary American band leader William “Count” Basie died 40 years ago, but his legacy lived on in the ...
Hace 1 día · Musical artist. Website. sinatra .com. Signature. Francis Albert Sinatra ( / sɪˈnɑːtrə /; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the most popular entertainers of the mid-20th century.
Hace 4 días · W riting about Count Basie’s minimalistic piano playing in the New Yorker of April 7, 1975, Balliett made an analogy that opened my eyes to a thing that criticism could do: What Hemingway had done for American prose Basie was doing for American music.
Hace 1 día · 2. The two albums (plus one bonus track) from early in Lacy’s career coupled here are thus available for the umpteenth time on CD, but we live in a world where recycling in the broadest sense of the term is a virtue worth signalling, and in this instance further availability is justified given the quality of the music involved. Lacy’s work ...
