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William James "Count" Basie (/ ˈ b eɪ s i /; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording.
El título de una de las canciones más famosas de su banda, “The Kid from Red Bank”, es un indicio obvio, pero muchos historiadores del jazz suponen que William J. “Count” Basie, Jr. era nativo de Kansas City, Missouri. . Y si bien fue allí donde Basie y su banda alcanzaron fama nacional, los orígenes del gran jazz se remontan a una ...
William Basie (Red Bank, 21 de agosto de 1904 - Hollywood, Florida, 26 de abril de 1984), conocido como Count Basie (Es decir, en español el Conde Basie), fue un director de big band y pianista estadounidense de jazz.
William J. “Count” Basie (1904-1984) The title of one of his band’s most famous tunes — “The Kid from Red Bank” – is an obvious tip-off, but many jazz historians assume that William J. “Count” Basie, Jr. was a native of Kansas City, Missouri.
2 de abr. de 2014 · One of jazz music's all-time greats, bandleader-pianist Count Basie was a primary shaper of the big-band sound that characterized mid-20th century popular music.
Count Basie and his bands went on to eclipse Bennie Moten’s fame. In 1937, Basie moved to Chicago and then New York, bringing Kansas City jazz to national prominence in the process. Basie carried on the Kansas City jazz style until his death in the 1980s.
1904 – 1984. The musician most closely associated with Kansas City jazz, pianist and bandleader William Basie was born in New Jersey and came to Kansas City in the late 1920s. He joined Walter Page’s Blue Devils in 1928 and a year later was lured away to the Bennie Moten Orchestra.
