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The Count Basie Orchestra
Formed in 1935
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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 has survived long past the big band era itself and the death of Basie in 1984. It continues under the direction of trumpeter Scotty Barnhart.
Originally including such musicians as Buck Clayton and Lester Young in the line-up, the band in the 1950s and 1960s made use of the work of the arrangers Neal Hefti and Sammy Nestico with featured musicians such as Thad Jones and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis.
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Le terme Count Basie Orchestra désigne le big band que dirigeait le pianiste Count Basie.
L'orchestre a survécu à la mort de son leader et continue à se produire sous ce nom depuis 1984.
Les saxophonistes Eric Dixon, Frank Foster et Grover Mitchell, le trompettiste Thad Jones, le tromboniste Bill Hughes et le batteur Dennis Mackrel, tous anciens musiciens de l'orchestre, se sont relayés à la tête de la formation.
En 2002, 18 ans après le décès du « Count », six musiciens ayant joué avec lui étaient toujours membres du Count Basie Orchestra.
Depuis 2013, c'est le trompettiste Scotty Barnhart qui dirige le Count Basie Orchestra.
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Discography
Albums
- 1955 Basie's Back in Town
- 1955 THE GREATEST!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards
- 1956 April in Paris
- 1957 Basie In London
- 1959 Everyday I Have the Blues
- 1960 Not Now, I’ll Tell You When
- 1961 Swinging the Blues
- 1962 On My Way & Shoutin' Again!
- 1962 The Legend (From the Pen of Benny Carter)
- 1962 Star Collection - Frank Sinatra With Count Basie
- 1963 This Time by Basie: Hits of the 50's & 60's
- 1963 Ella and Basie!
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- 1964 It Might as Well Be Swing
- 1966 Basie's Beatle Bag
- 1966 Broadway Basie's...Way
- 1966 Hollywood… Basie’s Way
- 1967 Basie's Beat
- 1967 Basie's in the Bag
- 1968 Straight Ahead
- 1969 Basic Basie
- 1970 Basie on The Beatles
- 1977 Prime Time
- 1982 A Classy Pair
- 1982 Singin' Up A Storm
- 1983 The Best of Basie
- 1984 Kansas City Suite - The Music of Benny Carter
- 1985 Have a Nice Day
- 1985 On the Road
- 1985 Basie in Europe
- 1985 I Told You So
- 1986 Long Live the Chief
- 1989 Flip, Flop & Fly
- 1989 The Giants of Boogie Woogie
- 1989 The Legend, the Legacy, the Count Basie Orchestra
- 1989 Tony Bennett with the Count Basie Orchestra
- 1990 Big Boss Band
- 1993 Frankly Basie: Count Basie Plays the Hits of Frank Sinatra
- 1993 Shoutin’ Blues
- 1994 88 Basie Street
- 1994 Basie's Bag
- 1995 Best Of The Count Basie Orchestra On Denon
- 1995 En Concert, 1960/62
- 1996 Jazzin'
- 1997 At the Royal Roost 1948
- 1998 At Long Last
- 1998 Count Plays Duke
- 1998 Warm Breeze
- 1998 Send in the Clowns
- 1999 Swing Shift
- 1999 Atomic Swing
- 1999 Basie Big Band
- 2000 Fancy Pants
- 2001 Shoutin' Blues
- 2001 Swingin' at the Chatterbox 1937
- 2002 Bon Basie de Paris
- 2002 Basie Meets Bond
- 2004 Basie's Beat
- 2005 Basie Land
- 2006 Jumpin' At The Woodside
- 2006 On the Sunny Side of the Street
- 2006 Ray Sings, Basie Swings
- 2008 Mustermesse Basel 1956 Part 1
- 2009 Swinging, Singing, Playing
- 2010 Dance Along With Basie
- 2012 A Beautiful Friendship
- 2013 On My Way and Shoutin' Again! / Not Now, I'll Tell You When
- 2015 A Very Swingin' Basie Christmas!
- 2016 Straight Ahead
- 2016 High Voltage
- 2017 Jumpin' at the Woodside
- 2018 All About That Basie
- 2023 Basie Swings the Blues
- Basie In London
- Inside Basie
EPs
- 1943 I’ve Got Rhythm / G. I. Stomp / Dance of the Gremlins
- 1944 Outskirts of Town / I’ve Found a New Baby / Yeah Man / Rhythm Man
- 1944 Pretty Eyes / Lunceford Special / Circus in Rhythm
- 1945 My Silent Love / The Mole / Taps Miller
- 1945 Playhouse no. 2 Stomp / Sweet Sally / Zip, Zip, Zipper
- 1945 Ol’ Man River / Jimmy’s Blues / Take Me Back Baby
