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Count Basie

American musician
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Byname of:
William Basie
Born:
August 21, 1904, Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S.
Died:
April 26, 1984, Hollywood, Florida (aged 79)
Movement / Style:
big-band jazz
swing
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Count Basie (born August 21, 1904, Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S.—died April 26, 1984, Hollywood, Florida) was an American jazz musician noted for his spare, economical piano style and for his leadership of influential and widely heralded big bands. Basie studied music with his mother and was later influenced by the Harlem pianists James P. Johnson and Fats Waller, receiving informal tutelage on the organ from the latter. He began his professional career as an accompanist on the vaudeville circuit. Stranded in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1927, Basie remained there and eventually (in 1935) assumed the leadership of a nine-piece ...(100 of 1000 words)

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