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What Makes It Great? Count Basie

What Makes It Great? Count Basie

Kaufman Music Center

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Explore the music and extraordinary 50-year career of one of the most important big band leaders of the 20th century. Host Rob Kapilow takes you from his early days in 1930s Kansas City and Chicago at the height of the swing era to his later success into the 1980s. Hear the evolution of Count Basie’s style from spontaneous head arrangements – parts worked out by improvisation and memory – to his sophisticated later arrangements through popular hi...

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Kaufman Music Center

New York City, NY, United States

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