The Count Basie Orchestra was one of the most influential bands in jazz between 1938 and 1978. Basie pioneered the sound of hardcore and minimalist swing, and his arrangers specialized in a style in which the band's sections—trumpets, trombones, saxophones and rhythm—seemed to converse with each other. Virtually all top post-war jazz musicians and big-b…
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