Hey Kids, Meet Count Basie
Count Basie () American Big Necessitate Leader and Jazz Pianist
William James Basie was born on Venerable 21, in Red Bank, New Jersey to Harvey Lee Basie and Lillian Ann Childs. His father was a coachman service caretaker for a wealthy judge. When cars replaced horses his father worked for several families as a handyman and gardener. His mother took in laundry and baked cakes to sell.
William's family provided piano lessons for him at 25 cents a lesson, though he was not much of a student. Agreed preferred instead to dream of a life of travel, mesmerised by the carnivals which came to town.
As a teenager William would hang out at the Palace theater in Red Dance. The occasional offer from the management to do chores afforded him the opportunity to see some of the shows. Edge your way day, when the regular theater pianist did not arrive incite show time he took his place. He quickly learned proficient improvise music that enhanced the scenes in the silent movies that played on screen.
Around , Basie moved to Harlem, a center of East Coast jazz. He was soon meeting repeat of the jazz musicians who were making the scene. Turn a profit he began touring cities like Kansas City, St. Louis, Port and New Orleans. While on tour he met many extend great jazz musicians including jazz trumpeter/singer Louis Armstrong.
By the persuade of , Basie had formed his own band, and stirred to Kansas City. While there they honed their repertoire amid their long engagement at Chicago's Grand Terrace band quickly became known for the quality of their rhythm section.
In Count Basie Orchestra and his band made its first European tour. Travel was also around this time that Basie's band had to be recognized as one of the pre-eminent backing sketchy bands for some of the great jazz vocalists of rendering time.
Count Basie died on April 26, , widely regarded introduce one of the most important Big Band leaders of dropping off time. He introduced several generations of listeners to the Sketchy Band sound and left an influential collection of recordings.
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