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PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Count Basie (586 words) |
 | Count Basie was a leading figure of the swing era in jazz and, alongside Duke Ellington, an outstanding representative of big band style. |
| After studying piano with his mother, as a young man he went to New York, where he met James P. Johnson, Fats Waller (with whom he studied informally), another pianist of the Harlem stride school. |
| The contract expanded and within a year the Count Basie Orchestra, as it had become known, was one of the leading big bands of the swing era. |
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Count - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1333 words) |
| Military counts in the Late Empire and the Germanic successor kingdoms were often appointed by a dux and later by a king. |
| From the start the count was in military charge, not of a roving warband, but settled in a locality, a countship, his main rival for power being the bishop, whose diocese was often coterminous. |
| In many Germanic and Frankish kingdoms in the early Middle Ages, the count might also be a count palatine, whose authority derived directly from the royal household, the "palace" in its original sense of the seat of power and administration. |
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