Artist
Count Basie
Count Basie is a pianist artist from Red Bank, New Jersey, USA. 100 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pianist · Red Bank, New Jersey, USA · Best pianist albums
- 100
- Releases
- 1957–2024
- Active years
Artist
Count Basie is a pianist artist from Red Bank, New Jersey, USA. 100 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pianist · Red Bank, New Jersey, USA · Best pianist albums
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Our Shining Hour
1991
Basie Jam #3
1992
Manufacturers of Soul
1968
The Bosses
1974
+ The Big Band - Vol.1
1992
Loose Walk
1991
The Complete Clef & Verve Fifties Studio Recordings
2024
One O'Clock Jump
2024
Just the Blues
2021
Count Basie: Ken Burns's Jazz
2018
The Complete Atomic Basie
2018
Chairman Of The Board
2018
The Count Basie Story
2018
The Complete Decca Recordings
2018
The Swinging Count!
2018
Verve Jazz Masters 2: Count Basie
2018
The Columbia, Okeh & Vocalion Sessions (1936-1940) Vol. 1
2017
The Columbia, Okeh & Vocalion Sessions (1936-1940) Vol. 2
2017
The Board Of Directors
2015
Arthur Prysock/Count Basie
2015
The Best Of Basie
2015
The Board Of Directors Annual Report
2015
The Essential Count Basie
2014
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Live At The Sands [Before Frank]
2013
Sinatra/Basie: The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings
2013
Live at the Sands
2013
Count Basie: Verve Ultimate Cool
2013
Compact Jazz: Count Basie Plays The Blues
2012
Dance Parade
2012
Blues By Basie
2012
Jazz Inspiration
2011
Hall Of Fame
2011
On My Way And Shoutin' Again
2009
Timeless: Count Basie
2009
The Columbia, Okeh & Vocalion Sessions (1936-1940) Vol. 4
2008
Fundamentals
2008
The Columbia, Okeh & Vocalion Sessions (1936-1940) Vol. 3
2008
Basie's Beat
2007
The Golden Years
2007
Every Day I Have The Blues
2007
Basie At Birdland
2007
Get Together
2006
Basie Jam
2006
Kansas City 5
2006
One O'Clock Jump - The Very Best Of Count Basie
2006
Kansas City 7
2006
Kansas City 3 - For The Second Time
2006
Count Basie And Friends
2006
Basie Jam 2
2006
On The Road
2006
Kansas City Shout
2006
Count Basie Kansas City 6
2006
Lady, Be Good
2005
Li'l Ol' Groovemaker... Basie!
2004
Jazz Moods: Hot
2004
Count Basie At Newport
2004
Jazz Masters
2003
Kansas City Powerhouse
2002
Count Basie's Finest Hour
2002
Feeling Swing
2000
Columbia Jazz
2000
This Is Jazz #11
2000
First Time! The Count Meets The Duke
1999
Atomic Swing
1999
Basie's Beatle Bag
1998
Ella And Basie
1997
Planet Jazz - Jazz Budget Series
1997
Greatest Hits
1996
+ The Big Band - Vol.2
1996
Count Basie & His Great Vocalists
1995
Cute
1994
Listen... You Shall Hear
1994
Basie's Bag
1994
Big Bands: Count Basie
1993
This Time By Basie
1993
The Best of the Roulette Years
1992
Jazztime
1992
The Best Of The Count Basie Big Band
1992
Basie One More Time
1991
Basie Boogie
1989
The Essential Count Basie Volume III
1988
The Essential Count Basie, Vol. I
1987
The Essential Count Basie, Volume Ii
1987
Mostly Blues...and Some Others
1986
Bing 'n Basie
1986
Live In Japan '78
1985
Farmer's Market Barbecue
1982
Kansas City 6
1981
The Best Of Count Basie
1980
Basie & Zoot
1976
Count Basie Jam Session At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1975
1975
The Basie Big Band
1975
Standing Ovation
1969
Count Basie Picks The Winners
1965
It Might as Well Be Swing
1964
Back with Basie
1964
Basie Land
1963
String Along with Basie
1961
Count Basie and His Orchestra Swings, Tony Bennett Sings
1959
Basie
1957
William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. His mother first taught him piano and he started performing in his teens. Dropping out of school, he learned to operate lights for vaudeville and to improvise accompaniment for silent films at a local movie theater in his town of Red Bank, New Jersey. By 16, he increasingly played jazz piano at parties, resorts and other venues. In 1924, he went to Harlem, where his performing career expanded; he toured with groups to the major jazz cities of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. In 1929 he joined Bennie Moten's band in Kansas City, and played with them until Moten's death in 1935. That year Basie formed his own jazz orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two "split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their sound, and others. Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, the guitarist Fre…