Who is Count Basie

Count Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

Count Basie introduced several generations of listeners to the Big Band sound and left an influential catalog. Count Basie is remembered by many who worked for him as being considerate of musicians and their opinions, modest, relaxed, fun-loving, dryly witty, and always enthusiastic about his music. As he summed up the key to his understated style, in his autobiography, "I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter"