How to pronounce “basie” in English

So he found and identified Count Basie, Aretha Franklin, Benny Goodman, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Stevie Ray Vaughan.

But unfortunately, Billie Holiday quit Count Basie's band-- or was fired for not wanting to sing blues tunes-- and she joined Artie Shaw's band.

You see Count Basie might call it Count Basic and the barons of rhythm account Basic band.

And a lot of musicians-- my dad was a jazz musician who could not-- his dream was to be in Count Basie's band.

Shortly after, Billie Holiday began playing with the Count Basie Band, which is one of my favorite bands.

There's almost no recordings of this period, because Billie Holiday and Count Basie were signed to competing record label contracts.

However the newspapers who covered the event very thoroughly said that, "Chick Webb kicked Count Basie's band's butt, but Billie won over Ella Fitzgerald

And so, in 1937, when the very famous battle of the bands at the Savoy Ballroom happened, between Chick Webb and Count Basie,

It seems like this would have been a match made in heaven, Billie Holiday and Count Basie.

But I assure you that he was very, very famous, and he was much more famous than Count Basie at that time

And then, like I said, WRVU, the radio show, "911 Emergency" with DJ Egon and Count Basie was also a big influence for me

So he found and identified Count Basie, Aretha Franklin, Benny Goodman, Bruce Springsteen,