Thursday is as good a day as any for a Count Basie break. Here are three video clips that went up at YouTube in the past bunch of months:
Here's Basie on Chicago's WGN-TV in 1964. Dig Sonny Payne on Corner Pocket and that stick toss ending in a snare shot...
Here's Basie with Sarah Vaughan in 1975...
And here's Joe Williams with Basie on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1959...
Bonus: Here's Jerry Lewis acting out every Basie fan's fantasy—to conduct the Basie band on April in Paris...