Count Basie

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All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, b... (more Count Basie quotes)

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	A Portrait Of Count Basie Find out more about 50 songs from this album Buy this album | Comments (0) | Post new comment
	April In Paris Find out more about 17 songs from this album Buy this album | Comments (0) | Post new comment
	At Newport Find out more about 13 songs from this album Buy this album | Comments (0) | Post new comment

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