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Count Basie Orchestra

Count Basie Orchestra has been played on NTS shows including The Black Midi Variety Hour, with Shiny Stockings first played on 17 January 2018.

The Count Basie Orchestra is an American 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 as a 'ghost band'. A 16 to 18 piece big band, originally including such musicians as Buck Clayton and Lester…

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
Taxi War Dance
Count Basie And His Orchestra, Lester Young
Epic1956
Taxi War Dance
Count Basie And His Orchestra, Lester YoungEpic1956
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Double-O
Count Basie & His Orchestra
Roulette0
Double-O
Count Basie & His OrchestraRoulette0
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Shiny Stockings
Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie Orchestra
Verve Records1964
Shiny Stockings
Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie OrchestraVerve Records1964
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Whirly-Bird
Count Basie & His Orchestra
Roulette1961
Whirly-Bird
Count Basie & His OrchestraRoulette1961
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Send In The Clowns
Sarah Vaughan, The Count Basie Orchestra
Pablo today1981
Send In The Clowns
Sarah Vaughan, The Count Basie OrchestraPablo today1981
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Lil' Darlin'
Count Basie & His Orchestra
Charly Records1996
Lil' Darlin'
Count Basie & His OrchestraCharly Records1996
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Kilimanjaro
Count Basie & His Orchestra, Oliver Nelson
Flying Dutchman1971
Kilimanjaro
Count Basie & His Orchestra, Oliver NelsonFlying Dutchman1971
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