Basie in a sentence

Conceived as a birthday gift to her grandfather, who is turning a hundred, the work is a good-time romp set to his kind of music—Count Basie, Ray Charles, Louisiana second line.

Holiday Express brought a little Christmas to near sold-out audience at the Count Basie Center of the Arts last night.

Then he has two shows at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank both on Saturday, June 3. One at 5 p.m. and the other at 8 p.m.

Tickets are available at the Count Basie in Red Bank, NJ, enjoy the music of an incredible woman.

It has since gone on to outlive the movie and become, in the process, a jazz standard, recorded by everyone from Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Stan Kenton, Count Basie, to countless others.

Bandleader Johnny Otis, whose band was often compared to Count Basie, served long stints as the head of the Alabam's house band.

He was on Broadway with Count Basie at the Aquarium.

The exhibit is part of the center’s “2020: Year of Basie” and will be unveiled at a VIP, socially-distanced reception on September 25th and will be held on the center’s front lawn.

They played one of Basie's numbers.

Along with Carter and Davis, the other jazz luminary scheduled to perform was drummer Butch Miles, the one-time timekeeper for the famous Count Basie Orchestra.

A tribute to Smithereens’ lead singer Pat DiNizio, who died unexpectedly last month, will be held at the Count Basie Theatre Dec. 12.

By contrast, pianists and drummers can smoke while making music, as Count Basie often did.

Construction on the east end of the building is not yet underway, but upon completion will expand the current Basie lobby, allowing for new concession operations and upgraded restroom facilities.

Fallon said he jumped in with both feet back in January, when he delivered a poorly kept secret solo performance at The Basie, a trial run of sorts, before returning to the scene on Friday.

He and Grace have performed together in the past, in “A Christmas Story” at the Basie and “Seussical” at Spring Lake Theatre.

By February of that year, Holiday was no longer singing for Basie.

Cast Cast notes * Count Basie appears as himself in a cameo, with his band, which plays " April in Paris " in the middle of the desert, as Bart rides by on his way to Rock Ridge.

Count Basie had gotten used to Holiday's heavy involvement in the band.

Gourse, p. 40. Fitzgerald was the vocalist for the Chick Webb Band, who were in competition with Count Basie.

Randel 2002, p. 294 Most arrangements for big bands, however, were written down and credited to a specific arranger, as with arrangements by Sammy Nestico and Neal Hefti for Count Basie's later big bands.