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Hace 5 días · Bugle Blues - Count Basie and His Orchestra
Hace 3 días · The book explores the intimate lives and historic musical legacies of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie — three titans of jazz who not only advanced jazz as America’s most ...
Hace 4 días · Holiday passed away in 1959, ... Count Basie, born William James Basie on August 21, 1904, ... featuring iconic soloists like Lester Young and Freddie Green.
Hace 5 días · It’s titled “The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America,” and focuses on their impact on jazz music as well as the country at-large.
Hace 5 días · In his introduction, author Larry Tye explains why he so badly wanted to tell the story of these three giants of music and how Basie’s, Ellington’s, and Armstrong’s lives intersected and diverged as all three were near-simultaneously performing for audiences world-wide.
Hace 3 días · The Atomic Mr. Basie
Hace 4 días · Count Basie had already dropped left-hand stride patterns, in favor of a sparse, rhythmically unpredictable approach to playing chords, called “comping.” Bebop style comping allowed the pianist/guitarist to work with the drummer in dialogue with the soloist.
