Count Basie and his Orchestra In the 1930’s a new era was taking place in jazz. The swing era, otherwise known as the big band era. One of the biggest and most influential leaders of this era was William Basie, otherwise known as The Count, or Count Basie. Basie was among many of the leaders in this era, known for his leadership skills as a band leader and a cunning pianist. Basie was known for having one of the best combo section, or rhythm section around. His rhythm section featured among the best
At the Sands with Count Basie and Frank Sinatra The year was 1966 Frank Sinatra was at the peak of his career. There he stood on the stage in the Copa Room at the Sands Hotel and Casino in front of Count Basie and his Orchestra recording what is considered the best album of his career. The album “Sinatra at the Sands” would be his first album recorded live to be released and the album would achieve gold in sales. Sinatra was in his environment, a cozy salon style venue with an enthusiastic crowd
or how trivial it may seem. At the core, music represents all that is good or bad in the world. It’s a way people from all over this globe can relate to one another without ever speaking a chosen language. As I begin this report on the iconic Count Basie, one must realize that he is a piece of
like the Count Basie Orchestra. Count Basie proved that a big band could still swing, without losing the spontaneity so essential to jazz. William James Basie was born August 21, 1904 in Red Bank, New Jersey (Hare, par. 3). His father was a coachman and caretaker for a wealthy judge, and his mother took in laundry to help with the family's financial situation. Between the two of them, there was enough money to pay for piano lessons for young William (Morgenstern, pars. 1-2). Young Basie longed
fresh new style that was a combination of Louis Armstrong's swinging and Bessie Smith's sound. Over the next seven years she would go on to record some of the greatest songs of her career. Lady Day was with Count Basie's Orchestra during much of 1937 but, she was soon kicked out by Count Basie for trying to be too "independent and temperamental." Later Lester Young and Buck Clayton began recording with Holiday and the music that the three of them made was timeless. She worked with Artie Shaw's
jazz musicians. Some extraorginary music resulted from the healthy competition and collegiality that grew among musicians of significantly different backgrounds and styles. Among the musicians who marked the sound of Kansas City then were Bill "Count" Basie, Bennie Moten, Lester Young, Eddie Durham, Jesse Stone, Walter Page, Oran "Hot Lips" Page, Mary Lou Williams, Eddie Barefield, Henry "Buster" Smith, Ed Lewis, Jimmy Rushing, Joe Turner, Pete Johnson, Jay McShann, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Dick
Many jazz artists as we know it are quite talented. Their talents are unique in that they can translate human emotion through singing or playing their instruments. Many have the ability to reach and touch people’s souls through their amazing gifts. Although this art of turning notes and lyrics into emotional imagery may somewhat come natural, the audience must wonder where their influence comes from. For Billie Holiday, her career was highly influenced by personal experience, the effects of the Great
The transition between the swing riffs of Count Basie in the 1920’s to 1930’s to the improvisations of Thelonious Monk during post World War II is full of history. This research will explore the beginnings and evolution of Bebop as a jazz subgenre and its influence on the rise of jazz music as a concert form. During the “Swing” era of jazz in the 1920’s to the 1930’s was dominated by the big band movement. Artists such a Duke Ellington and Count Basie were popular for their great arrangements and
Billie was born to the name, Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915. She was born in Philadelphia but grew up in the Fell's Point section of Baltimore. Her mother, was just 13 at the time of her birth; her father, was 15. Holidays' teenage parents, Sadie Harris (aka Fagan) and probable father, Clarence Holiday, never married, and they did not live together for a long time. Clarence, a banjo and guitar player worked with Fletcher Henderson's band in the early 30s. He remains a shady figure who left his family
Legendary jazz songstress Billie Holiday once said in response to the exclusion of African Americans from jazz clubs on the notorious 52nd Street, “You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.” The comparison between the jazz world, or more specifically 52nd Street, and a plantation show the immense racial tension between blacks and whites in the early to mid part of the twentieth century. In
The magnificent stories of Billie Holiday, the great Louis Armstrong, and Adelaide Hall are about how they struggled, conquered, and worked through the Harlem Renaissance. From realizing they all left an impact on the world. They were very successful African American musicians. It takes a lot to write and express different feelings especially to the world, but they all did in song and in action. Billie Holiday was born April 7, 1915, in Pennsylvania. Her birth name was Eleanora Logan Gough; her birth
become a part-owner of a large investment portfolio, along with all the other shareholders of the fund. The fund manager invests the contributions when shares are purchased, along with money from the other shareholders. Every day, the fund manager counts up the value of all the fund's holdings, figures out how many shares have been purchased by shareholders, and then calculates the net asset value(NAV) of the mutual fund, which is the price of a single share of the fund on that day. If the fund manager
actions give good results and vice versa. It is the quality of an act, which determines its consequences. But what determines the karmic quality of a deed? In Hinduism it is the correct performance of a person's "duty", especially his caste duties that counts. Early Buddhism, which recognized no caste distinctions, evaluates the karmic quality of an act in terms of moral and ethical criteria. In particular it is the mental factors, which accompany the commission of deed that determines its consequences
man-hours used. The event itself has an APH standard, as do individual auditors counting in the store. 100,000 pieces of inventory divided by a 2000pph standard will require 50 man-hours. 50 man-hours divided by 10 team members equals a 5-hour count. Five-hour counts make up about 3/4ths of RGIS’s target completion times; additional pieces require additional people, and vice-versa. The 2000pph standard that this store has would be met if everyone counted at that speed. But in reality, not everyone has
three conditions had to be met: first, you had to have a belief; second, the belief had to be justified; third, this justified belief had to be true. So a justified true belief counts as knowledge. Gettier however showed this analysis to be inadequate as one can have a justified true belief that no one would want to count as knowledge. In the first Gettier counterexample, Smith is justified in believing that Jones is the man who will get the job. Smith’s also justified in believing that Jones
credit card fraud before too much damage has been done. In East Lansing, there were two cases of credit card fraud within this past year. According to an article in The State News, Sadia Zoe Tabie- Bogne was arrested on November 10, 2004 for two counts of credit card fraud. She has stolen and made over $3,000 worth of purchases, with at least $2,800 of it being stolen from her husband. All of Sadia's victims have been international students, her husband included. Sadia Zoe Tabie- Bogne's pre-trial
I sat swinging my legs on the bar stool, staring at the counter, trying to look occupied, when a tall man sat down next to me. I looked over at him as he ordered a drink, paying with a sleek credit card. He took the shot and drank it quickly, signaling the bartender for another. “Drowning your worries?” I asked him, spinning my chair to face him. He looked me over, taking in my short frame. “I'm trying,” I studied him for a moment, then spoke. “You’re not from around here are you?” He smiled
eight months pregnant, disappeared on December 24, 2002. When the body of the California woman and her unborn child were found four months later, her husband, Scott, was charged with two counts of murder. Detective Craig Grogan gave a sworn statement that he had probable cause to believe Mr. Peterson committed two counts of the crime of 187 Penal Code, homicide, on or about December 23, 2002 or December 24,2002, in the county of Stanislaus. April 17, 2003 at 0658 hours the Judge of the Superior Court
*Bzzzz* “Fucking flies.” *SMACK* “Come on man, you need to give us the money or we’re gonna have some problems.” Simply staring at this scum makes me regret my decisions, borrowing money? Go to a fucking bank you retard. “I don’t have it now… give me another week, please.” I practically beg and this scum looks at me like I am the scum in this situation. “We don’t got time.” He just taps his foot against the ground while staring at his watch. *Bzzzzzzz* Didn’t get the
is none other than Beauty and the Beast, which was part of one of Perrault’s compilations. Bronte uses the ideas and themes of Beauty and the Beast to reveal the importance of inner beauty and to make a point that it’s what’s inside a person that counts. The beauty that can be found through outward appearance is superficial. A person’s inner beauty as shown through the relationship of Jane and Rochester can overcome society’s ideas of what constitute being beautiful. We know that Bronte was familiar