Artist	Song
Count Basie & Quincy Jones and His Orchestra	Jumpin' at the Woodside
from The Best of Early Basie (1996)
Count Basie	Lester Leaps In
from The Count Basie Story (2004)
Count Basie & Quincy Jones and His Orchestra	April in Paris
from April in Paris (1997)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Blue Skies
from America's #1 Band (2003)
Frank Sinatra	Fly Me to the Moon
from It Might As Well Be Swing (2009)
Count Basie & Joe Williams	Every Day I Have the Blues
from Count Basie Swings - Joe Williams Sings (1993)
Buck Clayton, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Herschel Evans & Lester Young	One O'Clock Jump
from Count Basie's Finest Hour (2002)
Count Basie & Ella Fitzgerald	Dream a Little Dream of Me
from Ella and Basie! (1997)
Count Basie	Down for Double
from The Count Basie Story (2004)
Count Basie	Plymouth Rock
from King of Swing (2002)
Count Basie & Ella Fitzgerald	Tea for Two
from Ella and Basie! (1997)
Count Basie	Li'l Darlin'
from The Complete Atomic Basie (1994)
Count Basie	9:20 Special
from The Count Basie Story (2004)
Count Basie	Open the Door Richard
from The R&B Years, Vol. 1 (1999)
Count Basie & Sammy Davis, Jr.	The Girl from Ipanema
from Our Shining Hour (1994)
Count Basie	Moten Swing
from The Essential Count Basie, Vol. 3 (1988)
Count Basie	Tickle Toe
from The Count Basie Story (2004)
Count Basie, Frank B Foster & Frank Wess	Two Franks
from Verve Jazz Masters 2: Count Basie (1994)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Going to Chicago Blues
from One O'Clock Jump (2009)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Splanky
from The Atomic Mr. Basie (2009)
Count Basie	Rock-a-Bye Basie
from The Essential Count Basie, Vol. I (1987)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	How Long Blues
from Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Piano Blues (2003)
Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & The Orchestra & Quincy Jones	Come Fly With Me (Live)
from Sinatra At the Sands (Live) (2009)
Count Basie & Quincy Jones and His Orchestra	Corner Pocket
from Count Basie's Finest Hour (2002)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Topsy
from The Complete Decca Recordings (1937-1939) (1992)
Count Basie	All Right, Ok, You Win
from Count Basie: 20 Greatest Hits (2009)
Count Basie	Shiny Stockings
from April in Paris (1997)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Whirly-Bird
from The Atomic Mr. Basie (2009)
Count Basie	Blee Blop Blues (Issued As "Normania")
from Kansas City Powerhouse (Remastered - 2002) (2002)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Good Morning Blues
from The Best of Early Basie (1996)
The Count Basie Orchestra	Ain't Misbehavin'
from April In Paris (2002)
The Basie Band	Two for the Blues
from The Basie Band 1952-1957 (2008)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?
from Baseball Anthems (2009)
Count Basie & Duke Ellington	Battle Royal
from First Time! The Count Meets the Duke (1993)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Boo Hoo
from The Complete Decca Recordings (1937-1939) (1992)
Count Basie	The Kid from Red Bank
from The Complete Atomic Basie (1994)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Red Wagon
from The Complete Decca Recordings (1937-1939) (1992)
Count Basie	I Want a Little Girl
from The Essential Count Basie, Vol. 3 (1988)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Broadway
from America's #1 Band (2003)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Shoe Shine Boy
from America's #1 Band (2003)
Count Basie	The Late Late Show (Vocal Version)
from The Complete Atomic Basie (1994)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Pennies from Heaven
from The Complete Decca Recordings (1937-1939) (1992)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Cherokee
from The Complete Decca Recordings (1937-1939) (1992)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Cherokee
from The Complete Decca Recordings (1937-1939) (1992)
Count Basie	Easy Does It
from The Essential Count Basie, Vol. 2 (1987)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Blues in the Dark
from The Best of Early Basie (1996)
Count Basie & Tony Bennett	Anything Goes
from Life Is a Song (2004)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Evenin'
from America's #1 Band (2003)
Count Basie	Smack Dab In the Middle
from Compact Jazz (2009)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Blue & Sentimental
from Blue & Sentimental (2005)
Count Basie	And the Angels Sing
from Count Basie and His Great Vocalists (1995)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Red Bank Boogie
from More Compositions of Count Basie & Others (2006)
Count Basie	Double-O
from The Complete Atomic Basie (1994)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Little Pony
from America's #1 Band (2003)
Count Basie & Zoot Sims	Hardav
from Basie & Zoot (2006)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Wind Machine
from On the Road (2006)
Count Basie & Eddie Vinson	Cherry Red
from Kansas City Shout (2006)
Count Basie And His Orchestra	Cute
from Breakfast Dance and Barbecue (2001)
Count Basie	Basie Boogie
from The War (The Soundtrack) (1949)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Polka Dots and Moonbeams
from Ken Burns Jazz: Lester Young (2000)
Count Basie	Somebody Stole My Gal
from Count Basie and His Great Vocalists (1995)
Count Basie	Fiesta In Blue
from 1937-1943 (2005)
Count Basie and His Orchestra & Diane Schuur	Deedles' Blues
from Diane Schuur & The Count Basie Orchestra (Live) (1987)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	Oh, Lady Be Good
from The Complete Decca Recordings (1937-1939) (1992)
Count Basie	Sent For You Yesterday
from 50 Big Band Favorites (2004)
Count Basie and His Orchestra, Herschel Evans & Lester Young	John's Idea
from Ken Burns Jazz: Count Basie (2000)
Count Basie & Ella Fitzgerald	Satin Doll
from Ella and Basie! (1997)
Count Basie and His Orchestra	I'll Remember April
from America's #1 Band (2003)
Count Basie & The Kansas City 8	Swinging On the Cusp
from Get Together (2007)
Count Basie	I Can't Stop Loving You
from This Time By Basie (2008)
Count Basie and His Orchestra & Eddie Lockjaw Davis	The James Bond Theme
from Basie Meets Bond (2002)
Oscar Peterson	Perdido
from Montreux '77: The Jam Sessions (2007)
Count Basie Big Band	Bag of Dreams
from Montreux '77 (2006)
Count Basie & Oscar Peterson	Indiana
from The Timekeepers (2006)
Count Basie & Joe Turner	Blues for Joe Turner
from Kansas City Shout (2006)

Comment:

If Duke Ellington provided the jazz orchestra's gray matter, Count Basie was its bouncing, blasting, blood-pumping [i]heart[/i]. He took the bluesy lessons he learned backing Bennie Moten's band in Kansas City and adapted them to a harder, tighter, more urban approach, with razor-sharp riffs capable of inflicting bodily harm if incorrectly applied. At the same time, his downright sensual swing feel had a huge impact on jazz and R&B bandleaders of the '40s and '50s, and big-band arrangers like Billy May, not to mention providing the crucial breaths between blazes of glory in bebop's manic makeup. Besides cutting jazz standards that would be reinterpreted by generations of powerful players, the Basie band swung with some of America's greatest vocalists, from Ella and Sammy to Tony and Frank, providing them with the most sympathetic musical partners a singer could want. We've tackled the daunting task of digging through the decades of Basie's luminous legacy to isolate the essential moments; all [i]you[/i] have to do is swing.

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