Count Basie Orchestra
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title:
Count Basie Orchestra
text:
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 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 195
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
American big band
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Basie_Orchestra
date created:
2005-12-16T21:32:26Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T03:59:25Z
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