Count Basie

Person · US

Lineage

Sound Signature

jazzbig bandswingamericanclassic pop and rockpiano blues

Sound Profile

Origins

Geography	US
Sound Family	Jazz

Connections

Top Collaborators

Freddie Green852 Charlie Fowlkes548 The Count Basie Orchestra512 Marshall Royal442 Eric Dixon390 Bill Hughes385 Norman Granz350 Sonny Cohn341

Sampled From

Mama Don't Want No Peas 'n' Rice 'n' Coconut

The Count Basie Orchestra

Sampled By

You Must Remember This #14, “Hollywood Frame by Frame #3: Bacall, After Bogart”

Canton

You Must Remember This #14, “Hollywood Frame by Frame #3: Bacall, After Bogart”

Jahzzar

You Must Remember This #14, “Hollywood Frame by Frame #3: Bacall, After Bogart”

Karina Longworth

You Must Remember This #14, “Hollywood Frame by Frame #3: Bacall, After Bogart”

Lauren Bacall

You Must Remember This #8, “Follies of 1938, Part 1: Hollywood’s Greatest Year”

Karina Longworth

You Must Remember This #7, “The Many Loves of Howard Hughes, Chapter 1”

Karina Longworth

Release Timeline

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Discography

Inside Basie Outside

1966

Count Basie and His Great Vocalists

1993

Get Together

1986

Basie's Basement

1992

Kansas City 7

1992

Blues Alley

1996

Count Basie Jam / Montreux '77

1989

Class of '54

2001

Basie Jam 2

2006

The Bosses

1974

Arthur Prysock / Count Basie

1966

The Songs of Bessie Smith

1973

The Board of Directors Annual Report

1968

The Atomic Mr. Basie

1958

Too Marvelous for Words

1999

Night Rider

1992

One O’Clock Jump

1999

Just The Blues

1960

Swingin' the Blues

2010

Count Basie – The Very Best

1994

Autumn in Paris

1988

String Along With Basie

1960

One O'Clock Jump

1989

Satch & Josh... Again

1998

April in Paris

2000

Yessir, That's My Baby

1986

Me and You

1996

Loose Walk

1991

Cute

1994

Chairman of the Board

2003

The Gifted Ones

1979

Basie Swingin' Voices Singin'

1966

Solid As a Rock

Sophisticated Swing

1996

Sammy Davis & Count Basie: Our Shining Hour

1965

Kansas City Powerhouse

2002

Pop Classics

1995

Basie Boogie

1989

+ The Big Band - Vol.2

1996

Sing Along With Basie

1958

Swingstation

1998

Pop Goes The Basie

1956

Basie Picks the Winners

1965

Basie Boogie

1994

Basie Rides Again

1957

The Greatest! Count Basie Plays...Joe Williams Sings Standards

1956

Basie Plays Hefti

1958

Count At The Organ

1965

First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

1961

Bing ’n Basie

1986

Four Classic Albums

2024

Li'l Ol' Groovemaker

Basie One More Time

1991

I Grandi Del Jazz - Count Basie - Verve Jazz Masters 2

2002

Cool Too

1999

Big Bands: Count Basie

1993

Sixteen Great Performances

1975

Big Band Scene '65

1965

All That Jazz, Vol. 73: Lester Young "Exercises in Swing"

2016

Count Basie Captures Walt Disney's The Happiest Millionaire

1967

From Broadway To Paris

1973

Midnite Jazz & Blues: Blue & Sentimental

2000

Basie Jam

1975

Farmers Market Barbecue

1996

Memories Ad-Lib

2015

Count Basie + Voices

1972

Big Band's Greatest Hits

1992

One O'Clock Jump

Satch and Josh....Again

2006

The Timekeepers

1993

Count Basie / Sarah Vaughan

1961

+ The Big Band - Vol.1

1992

The Count!

1960

Grand Concert gravé en 1945

1977

Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings

1993

Mostly Blues...and Some Others

1986

Swingsation

1998

Basie Jam #3

1992

King of Swing

1956

Afrique

1996

The Board of Directors

1968

Basie and Friends

1988

The Lang-Worth Transcriptions

2000

“Satch” and “Josh”

1986

On Broadway

Kansas City 5

1996

Kansas City 6

1981

Count Basie and His Orchestra Swings / Tony Bennett Sings

1959

Listen... You Shall Hear

1994

Jazztime

1992

Basie & Zoot

1976

Basie & Eckstine Incorporated

1959

Basie Roars Again

1956

Manufacturers of Soul

1968

Basie's Bag

1994

Kansas City Shout

1980