In the early 20s he moved in harlem where he discoverd the great stride pianists. Adding to their play book, basie received arrangements from jimmy mundy who had also worked with benny goodman and earl hines, particularly for. Count basie boogiewoogie c maj from the original recording of november 1938. Featuring the complete lead alto sax parts for nine sammy nestico charts recorded by count basie on the classic basie straight ahead album, this book is a musthave for developing alto saxophone players. Published by hal leonard digital sheet music hal leonard. Welcome to friendly what are you looking for book the piano style of count basie. William james count basie was an american jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. April in paris for voice and other instruments fake book, intermediate voice sheet music. Arranged by john coltrane, sonny rollins, coleman hawkins, and stan getz. Basie studied music with his mother and was later influenced by the harlem pianists james p. See new and popular count basie songs, uploaded by musescore users, connect with a community of musicians who love to write and play music. He picked up the basics of early ragtime from some of the great harlem pianists and.
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Basienestico lead trumpet book by method book sheet. Download for free in pdf midi format, or print directly from our site. William james count basie august 21, 1904 april 26, 1984 was an american jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. 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. You can read all your books for as long as a month for free and will get the latest books notifications. The kid from red bank offers an unusual showcase for basie himself at the piano, playing the least number of notes possible to surprise and bedazzle the listener, while lil darlin offers the basie bands answer to ellingtons mood indigo. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two split tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their sound, and others.
Basie eventually left the blue devils to take over the piano chair in the bennie. Notable arrangers who contributed to the bands book include foster, jones. Count basie, american jazz musician noted for his spare, economical piano style and for his leadership of influential and widely heralded big bands. The dynamic count basie band recorded live in 1958. Murray compiled this biography from conversations with basie, who died in 1984. Bill basie studied music with his mother as a child and played piano in early childhood. Count basie collection jazz piano solo sheet music hal leonard. Count basie sheet music free download in pdf or midi on. This book provides an exact transcription of the great counts playing. Basie style, used abebooks abebooks shop for books. The arrangements and conducting were by dick hyman, and.
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The piano style of count basie is the first book in this new jazz series. Composed by count basie, todd damerson, john green, cootie williams, john coltrane, miles davis, oliver nelson, thelonious monk, and victor young. Count basie collection jazz piano solo sheet music hal. Count basies most popular book is good morning blues. Information on tickets to concerts, arts education classes and the nonprofit mission of the historic count basie center for the arts in red bank, nj.
In his monumental second volume on the history of jazz, the swing era, gunther schuller delays his attempt to define swing until, some two hundred pages into the book, he introduces count basie in a section titled the quintessence of swing. Count basie on what he looks for in a piano, with oscar. Count basie s most popular book is good morning blues. Note that none of these songs are solos, which you would expect as count basie played mostly as accompanying other players. Get the guaranteed best price on individual artist piano vocalguitar like the hal leonard best of count basie for piano vocalguitar at musicians friend. The arrangements are playable and bring to life the sound of the basie band.
This collection does include the count playing with the great oscar peterson and it can be difficult to discern who is playing if you are a beginning pianist. Needs to be beed with quincy jones, cute neil hefti featuring thad jones, snookey young, sonny cohn, joe newman, trumpe. Count basie piano solos if you are looking for basies big band charts click here all of the midi files on this server are modified and somewhat abbreviated. There is enough of each song about 20 measures to give you a feel for what they are like. Includes an high quality pdf file to download instantly. A pianist, he played vaudeville before eventually forming his own big band and helping to define the era of swing with. Featuring the complete lead trumpet parts for 9 nestico charts recorded by count basie on the classic basie straight ahead album, this book is a. In 1964, sinatra and basie would make a final studio recording, it might as well be swing, orchestrated by quincy jones, and sinatras first live album, sinatra at the sands 1966 would. The book gave me some insight into the alwayscool minimalist pianist who led the greatest and most dynamic of big bands. For use with all bb, eb and c instruments, the jazz playalong series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. By count basie, jerry livingston, and mack david arr. William james count basie was an american jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and.
In 1935, basie formed his own jazz orchestra, the count basie orchestra, and in 1936 took them to chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. After youve gone april in paris basie boogie i never knew jumpin at the woodside lester leaps in one oclock jump shes funny that way sweet georgia brown swingin the blues until i met you corner pocket and more. William count basie august 21, 1904 april 26, 19841 was an american jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer, who studied music with his mother as a child and played drum and piano. In our catalog, you can find count basie sheet music for piano, drums, flute, saxophone, trumpet, guitar and almost any other instrument. Note for count basie and his orchestra and count basie orchestra, please use count basie orchestra count basie born august 21, 1904, red bank, new jersey, usa died april 26, 1984, hollywood, florida, usa was an american jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and.