The essential Count Basie

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Label

The essential Count Basie

Creator

• Basie, Count, 1904-1984

Contributor

• Quinichette, Paul
• Campbell, Paul, (Trumpet player)
• Coker, Henry, 1919-1979
• Culley, Wendell, 1906-1983
• Davis, Eddie, 1922-1986
• Foster, Frank, 1928-2011
• Fowlkes, Charlie, 1916-1980
• Graham, Bill, 1918-
• Green, Freddie, 1911-1987
• Hughes, Bill, 1930-
• Johnson, Gus, 1913-2000
• Jones, Eddie
• Jones, Reunald
• Jones, Thad
• Lewis, Jimmy, 1918-2000
• Newman, Joe
• Payne, Sonny, 1926-1979
• Powell, Benny
• Royal, Marshal, 1912-1995
• Wess, Frank, 1922-2013
• Wilkins, Ernie
• Wilkins, Jim, (Performer)
• Williams, Joe, 1918-1999

Performer

• Lewis, Jimmy, 1918-2000
• Coker, Henry, 1919-1979
• Newman, Joe
• Fowlkes, Charlie, 1916-1980
• Payne, Sonny, 1926-1979
• Graham, Bill, 1918-
• Powell, Benny
• Royal, Marshal, 1912-1995
• Quinichette, Paul
• Green, Freddie, 1911-1987
• Wess, Frank, 1922-2013
• Culley, Wendell, 1906-1983
• Hughes, Bill, 1930-
• Wilkins, Ernie
• Basie, Count, 1904-1984
• Wilkins, Jim, (Performer)
• Williams, Joe, 1918-1999
• Johnson, Gus, 1913-2000
• Jones, Eddie
• Davis, Eddie, 1922-1986
• Jones, Reunald
• Foster, Frank, 1928-2011
• Jones, Thad
• Campbell, Paul, (Trumpet player)

Subject

• Jazz -- 1951-1960
• Jazz vocals

Language

eng

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Accompanying matter

• biography of performer or history of ensemble
• technical information on music
• historical information

Cataloging source

TxDN

Date time place

Recorded July 1952, June 1954, May 1955, May 1956, or Sept. 1956

Form of composition

jazz

Format of music

not applicable

PerformerNote

Count Basie, piano ; Joe Williams, vocals ; Reunald Jones, Paul Campbell, Wendell Culley, Joe Newman, Thad Jones, trumpet ; Jim Wilkins, Henry Coker, Benny Powell, Bill Hughes, trombone ; Marshall Royal, Ernie Wilkins, Eddie (Lockjaw) Davis, Paul Quinichette, Charlie Fowlkes, Frank Wess, Frank Foster, Bill Graham, saxophone ; Freddie Green, guitar ; Jimmy Lewis or Eddie Jones, bass ; Gus Johnson or Sonny Payne, drums