 | Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie by Count Basie
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $6.88 This book has its weaknesses, see my review but it tells more of the story than anything else and should be in every home!
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 | The World Of Count Basie (Da Capo Paperback) by Stanley Dance
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $4.17 Good Interviewer talks to the Counts men about things that matter
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 | Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra 1930-1932 (The Chronological Classics) by Bennie Moten
Buy used from: $34.49 Any Moten Collection covering these years intensively gives you Roots of Basie. With Moten, Count Basie even did a vocal!
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 | Swingin' at the Chatterbox: 1937 by Count Basie
Buy used from: $2.96 Rare, historic aircheck of the basie band when it just came east including great fiddling by Claude Williams, get the last one if u can!
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 | At The Savoy Ballroom
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.27 One great live air check of Basie with Billie Holiday in the Band, Lester,. Herschel, Buck Clayton, and Jimmie Rushign swing the dancers recorded at the Savoy itself. You must own at least one !
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 | The Complete Decca Recordings by Count Basie
Buy new: $38.98 / Used from: $15.97 This is the foundation. If you do not own these great sides, the Basie Band arriving in New York Conquering Swing, swinging the blues, you are in trouble. If you cant afford it steal it. This is it!
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 | The Essential Count Basie, Vol. 1 by Count Basie
Buy used from: $0.08 Really essential, la creme if not du creme!
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 | The Kansas City Sessions by Lester Young
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $5.95 Really small group recordings of the Basie Band from the 1930s and 1940 without Basie except on a couple tracks. Includes the first Jazz electric guitar music ever recorded,. nice nice nice and nicer
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 | The Essential Count Basie, Vol. 2 by Count Basie
Buy used from: $3.88 Part of the Essential work for all lovers of swing
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 | From Spirituals To Swing by Various Artists
Buy new: $26.98 / Used from: $17.50 Crucial for any lover of Basie. The non-Basie here is crucial for any lover of music.
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 | Let's Jump
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $57.14 A rare Gem of great well recorded Basie in 1943 and 1944 rehearsal for the appearances on Jubilee recording on Beaver Junction
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 | Count Basie at Newport by Count Basie
Buy used from: $2.28 The first CD I ever bought. New Testament with guest appearance of Lester, Joe Jones, Mr. Rushing, as well as great singing by Joe Williams, all live, all great!
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 | Count Basie, Lester Young And The Stars Of Birdland On Tour! by Count Basie
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $14.99 Some great history, especially if you can get it at a discount
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 | Beaver Junction (1944-1946) by Count Basie
Buy used from: $8.28 These are the broadcasts that Let's Jump were the rehearsals for. Nice patter from Rushing, Whitman, Basie
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 | The Essential Jimmy Rushing by Jimmy Rushing
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.97 Basie's Greatest singer, recorded with Southwestern Swing Pianists like Sammy Price and Pete Johnson, Basie vets like Buddy Tate in the early 1960s, simply great
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 | Jimmy Rushing with Count Basie & Bennie Moten 1930-1938 by Jimmy Rushing
Buy used from: $81.76 Jimmy with Moton and the Early Basie. Let him swing you
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 | 1938-1945 by Jimmy Rushing & Count Basie
Buy used from: $62.45 Rushing's work with basie while the band was with Columbia, great blues, great ballads, Mr. five by five rocks the band
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 | First Time: The Count Meets the Duke by Duke Ellington with Count Basie's Orchestra
Buy used from: $2.87 New Testament, but good. A hot smoking jamming swing recording of course it is historic
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 | The Bosses by Count Basie with Joe Turner
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.74 These men know how to lay back, Turner done right for once! They are still swinging in the 1960s when this gem was recorded
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 | The Last of the Blue Devils - The Kansas City Jazz Story
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $13.50 The history and roots of Kansas City Jazz in this reunion of its great players, Bill Basie strdes in and we get a great set from a show with a great version of Night Train featuring Jimmie Forest,
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