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...
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