Talk:Count Basie
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someone needs to explain the Kansas City style, maybe as a separate entry: Confuzion 10:46, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Title Change?
Shouldn't the title of this article be "William 'Count' Basie" rather than "Count Basie," given that the former encompasses his given and "public" names more accurately than the latter?
--TPB 23:49, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)
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- I don't know what the rule is, but I think he is much more widely known as just "Count Basie", so it is the most appropriate article title. Spalding 03:28, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
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- Yeah, I had later noted that in a subsequent comment, but apparently it didn't get posted. Oh well....
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[edit] Date of Death
Not sure where 132.150.8.242 got the information that Basie died in 1983,[1] so changing back to 1984. IMDB and who2 agree on 1984.[2][3][4] Basie received a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship in 1983,[5] and I've not seen mention that this was posthumous, which of course it would have been if the fellowships were announced in the autumn/fall, as they are now. Google searches[6][7] also suggest it was 1984. Finally, the article says that Basie died at 79, which again fits in with death in 1984 – perhaps 1983 was simply a miscalculation. However, if anyone has better information, of course please change it again and explain here! — John Mark Williams (t) 16:01, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Gunther Schuller's "The Swing Era" and "The Penguin Guide to Jazz" both place Basie's death in 1984. In my opinion, these are definitive sources. -- SeanO 00:20, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
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Pancreatic Cancer
I believe Count Basie was a amzaning man and Jazz singer with the blues and all that good stuff.
[edit] Who coined "Count"
Basie never started referring to himself as "Count" Basie. He was called this by a radio announcer. --Thepuckery 22:47, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- I invite you to read his autobiography Good Morning Blues, where he claims he invented the name 'Count' Basie for himself while he was with the Blue Devils. His autobiography appears to be the definitive source, don't you think? --SeanO 17:24, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] My Grammy
Am I right he was first black man to win a Grammy, 1959? Include it? Trekphiler 04:33, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
