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Born: August 21, 1904
Died: April 26, 1984
Biography | Discography (Selected Albums):
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra (1929–1932)
Basie Beginnings (1929–1932, RCA/Bluebird)
The Swinging Count! (Clef 1952)
Count Basie at Newport (1957)
Count Basie Presents Eddie Davis Trio + Joe Newman (Roulette, 1958)
The Atomic Mr. Basie (Roulette, 1958)
Memories Ad-Lib (Roulette, 1958) with Joe Williams
Count Basie & Billy Eckstine - Basie & Eckstine Incorporated ( Roulette 1959)
String Along with Basie (Roulette, 1960)
Count Basie and the Kansas City 7 (Impulse!, 1962)
Basie Swingin' Voices Singin' (ABC-Paramount, 1966) with the Alan Copeland Singers
Basie Meets Bond (United Artists, 1966)
Loose Walk with Roy Eldridge (Pablo, 1972)
Basie Jam (Pablo, 1973)
The Bosses with Big Joe Turner (1973)
For the First Time (Pablo, 1974)
Satch and Josh (Pablo, 1974) with Oscar Peterson
Basie & Zoot with Zoot Sims (Pablo, 1975)
Count Basie Jam Session at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 (Pablo, 1975)
For the Second Time (Pablo, 1975)
Basie Jam 2 (Pablo, 1976)
Basie Jam 3 (Pablo, 1976)
Kansas City 5 (Pablo, 1977)
The Gifted Ones with Dizzy Gillespie (Pablo, 1977)
Montreux '77 (Pablo, 1977)
Basie Jam: Montreux '77 (Pablo, 1977)
Satch and Josh...Again with Oscar Peterson (Pablo, 1977)
Night Rider with Oscar Peterson (Pablo, 1978)
Count Basie Meets Oscar Peterson – The Timekeepers (Pablo, 1978)
Yessir, That's My Baby with Oscar Peterson (Pablo, 1978)
Kansas City 8: Get Together (Pablo, 1979)
Kansas City 7 (Pablo, 1980)
On the Road (Pablo, 1980)
Kansas City 6 (Pablo, 1981)
Mostly Blues...and Some Others (Pablo, 1983)
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