Growing up in Chicago, he saw Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Lionel Hampton visit his home.
Duke Ellington and Count Basie would come through town, and they often stayed in the Lloyds' large house.
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Count Basie's drummer "Papa Jo" Jones had "kiddies" whom he chose to mentor.
After his military stint, he caught on with jazz groups, including Hank Ballard and the Midnighters and Count Basie's band.
Before and after marrying Nat in 1948, Maria Cole had her own singing career, performing with greats such as Count Basie and Duke Ellington.
Ms. Bradford, who sang for years with the Count Basie Orchestra, had moved to New York "because the jazz clubs were closing" in Los Angeles.
In that way, The Stones were like the Count Basie band, keepers of a rhythmic quintessence that will likely vanish whenever they call it quits.
Born in Torino, Italy, her father filled the home with music from his record collection, including the works of Don Byas, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Jimmy Lunceford.
The Earl of Hines (as Bugs Bunny referred to him in a 1955 cartoon) is a much more proactive pianist-leader than his fellow royals Duke Ellington and Count Basie.
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The band is known for energetic on-the-spot arrangements of songs by Count Basie and Stevie Wonder, and even by the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.
It was even more popular and influential than its predecessor and it went on to become a jazz standard played by musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and, the queen of 1920s blues, Bessie Smith.
Our radio explanation also includes two bits from an old Tin Pan Alley song by Yip Harburg (who wrote the lyrics for the Wizard of Oz score) and Vernon Duke, called "April in Paris" played by the Count Basie Band.
Twenty years after his pioneering "Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development, " Schuller turned to the swing era, a glorious period in American music, when Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington developed an idiom that was accessible yet also innovative and artistically satisfying.
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