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Selected Artist Biography - Count Basie - From PBS - Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns.
Count Basie - A great day in Harlem: jazz history through one photograph.
The Complete Atomic Basie - Ink Blot Magazine Basie album review, biography, band links, music clips, and pictures.
Count Basie - Project page by Stuart Corbin at Duke University offers photos and brief biography.
Verve Records: Count Basie - Includes full label discography with soundclips and a biography.

Count Basie Theatre - Opening as the Carlton Theater in 1926, the Count Basie Theatre was renamed in 1984 to honor jazz great and Red Bank native William "Count" Basie. Through its 80-year history, it has become one of the leading performing arts venues in New Jersey.
Count Basie Orchestra - The Count Basie Orchestra was usually a big band of at least sixteen pieces. Sometimes, as in 1950, it shrank to an eight-piece orchestra.
Basie Swings, Bennett Sings - Basie Swings, Bennett Sings is a 1958 album by Tony Bennett with Count Basie and his Orchestra.
Eddie Durham - Eddie Durham (19 August, 1908–6 March, 1987) was an American jazz guitarist, trombonist, composer and musical arranger of the swing music medium born in San Marcos, Texas, probably best known for his work with musicians like Cab Calloway, Willie Bryant, Andy Kirk, Glenn Miller, Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie, among others. He is the co-composer of the tune Topsy, recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra and later by many others.
Count Basie - | Died = Hollywood, Florida