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In 1928, he joined Walter Page’s Blue Devils, and the following year, he joined Bennie Moten’s band. Listen to the best Count Basie songs on Apple Music and Spotify.īasie turned his attention to the piano, absorbing the stride-piano style of Fats Waller, and eventually hit the road with vaudeville acts. “I could see that playing drums was not going to be my gig.” “Everybody knew he was the champ,” Basie wrote of the percussionist who would go on to play in Duke Ellington’s band. After watching Sonny Greer play, Basie gave up his dreams of drumming.

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To get closer to show business, he dropped out of middle school and performed menial tasks at a movie theater. “I always used to go down there and frustrate the hell out of myself dreaming about leaving with them,” Basie wrote in his 1986 autobiography Good Morning Blues. He also badly wanted to get out of Red Bank, and he contemplated joining the circus to do so. William James Basie was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, in 1904. When you leave a Basie concert, you’re supposed to feel better than you did when you first walked in there. “It makes you want to tap your foot and snap your fingers. “His music makes you want to dance,” says Scotty Barnhart, who has led the Count Basie Orchestra since 2013. The Count Basie Orchestra, simply, has the ineffable ability to make your day better. I was gone, and I’ve been gone ever since that night.”īy the mid-’70s, Miles would join the band himself, part of an ever-growing list of talented musicians that played bluesy, swinging, and hotter than hot. “It was something for a 16-year-old kid to sit right in front of the band and hear that. Sonny Payne was on drums,” the 76-year-old drummer recalls with a hint of awe. As a teenager, he first saw the Count Basie Orchestra perform songs at a jazz festival in Virginia Beach.

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** Single print order can either print or save as PDF.When asked how to explain the pianist and bandleader Count Basie for the average listener, Butch Miles finds it difficult to be dispassionate. If the icon is greyed then these notes can not be transposed. Please check 'notes' icon for transpose options.

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