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thecountbasieorchestra .com. The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936. Despite a brief disbandment at the beginning of the 1950s, the band survived long past the big band era itself and the death of ...
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The plan here is that both Lester Young and Count Basie are on every track. A governing condition also is that all the tracks are currently owned by Sony. Sony and Universal will not allow their tracks to be issued on the same CD as tracks by the other company, which led to the Sony stuff being on a separate CD in the later Young/Basie Mosaic set - the one with 8 CDs.
This release is identical to the first disk of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Count Basie - The Original Big-Band Star-Sound. Noted on back cover: "Made In West Germany". Side A recorded at the Savoy Ballroom, June 30, 1937. B5 recorded in New York for AFRS, May 5, 1944. B4 recorded in New York for AFRS, May or June 1944.
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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. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two "split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing ...
