Count Basie / by Morgan, Alun, 1928-

Count Basie : a bio-discography / by Sheridan, Chris

The world of Count Basie / by Dance, Stanley

Count Basie and his orchestra / by Garrod, Charles

Good morning blues : the autobiography of Count Basie / by Basie, Count, 1904-1984

A discography of Count Basie, 1951-1968 / by Jepsen, Jørgen Grunnet

42 jazz, blues and boogie piano solos as recorded by Count Basie

Count Basie and his orchestra, its music and its musicians. by Horricks, Raymond, 1933-

The night people : reminiscences of a jazzman / by Wells, Dicky, 1907-1985

The early swing era, 1930 to 1941 / by Oliphant, Dave

Table of Contents: “…NAME BLACK BANDS: Fletcher Henderson -- Bennie Moten and Count Basie -- Duke Ellington -- Jimmie Lunceford -- NAME WHITE BANDS: Benny Goodman -- Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey -- Artie Shaw -- Glenn Miller -- OTHER BLACK BANDS: Louis Armstrongo -- Luis Russell -- Chick Webb -- Earl "Fatha" Hines -- Cab Calloway -- Andy Kirk -- Lionel Hampton -- Erskine Hawkins -- Boots Douglas -- Oran "Hot Lips" Page -- Benny Carter -- Jay McShann -- OTHER WHITE BANDS: Paul Whiteman -- Casa Loma Orchestra -- Bunny Berigan -- The Bob Crosby Orchestra -- Charlie Barnet -- Gene Krupa -- Harry James -- THE SMALL SWING GROUPS: Coleman Hawkins -- Jack Teagarden -- Billie Holiday -- Lester Young -- Fats Waller -- Milton Brown -- Summa Cum Lade, et al. -- Roy Eldridge and Buster Smith.…”

Icons of Black music / by Greig, Charlotte, 1954-

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88 : the giants of jazz piano / by Doerschuk, Bob

Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- Willie "the Lion" Smith -- Fats Waller -- Duke Ellington -- Earl Hines -- Count Basie -- Mary Lou Williams -- Teddy Wilson -- Nat "King" Cole -- Dorothy Donegan -- Art Tatum -- Erroll Garner -- Ahmad Jamal -- Oscar Peterson -- Phineas Newborn -- Bud Powell -- Tadd Dameron -- Hank Jones -- Jaki Byard -- Red Garland -- Tommy Flanagan -- Barry Harris -- Sir Roland Hanna -- Thelonious Monk -- Horace Silver -- Wynton Kelly -- Ray Bryant -- Ramsey Lewis -- Les McCann -- Bobby Timmons -- Herbie Hancock -- Bill Evans -- George Shearing -- Marian McPartland --…”

Misty and more jazz classics : for piano solo.

Table of Contents: “…Ain't goin' nowhere / Jess Stacy -- Avenue C ; Basie boogie ; Blue and sentimental / Count Basie -- Cherry point / Neal Hefti -- Complainin' / Jess Stacy -- Dreamy / Erroll Garner -- Every tub / Count Basie -- Fontainebleau / Tadd Dameron -- Goin' to Chicago blues / Count Basie -- Ivory impresions / Stan Freedman -- John's idea ; Li'l darlin' / Count Basie -- Lost in a tempo / Harry Zimmerman -- Manhattan lullaby / Frank Signorelli & Dean Kincaide -- Misty / Erroll Garner -- Night letter from Mars / Stan Freedman -- Repetition / Neal Hefti -- Rockabye Basie ; Sent you for yesterday (and here you come today) ; Splanky / Count Basie.…”

Jazz giants - piano : yesterday and today.

More dialogues in swing : intimate conversations with the stars of the big band era / by Hall, Fred, 1923-

Table of Contents: “…Kay Starr -- Count Basie -- Steve Allen -- Teddy Wilson -- Alvino Rey, King Sisters -- Herb Jeffries -- Johnny Green -- Les Brown -- The Two Helens [O'Connell and Forrest] -- Harry James -- Tony Bennett.…”

From swing to soul : an illustrated history of African American popular music from 1930 to 1960 / by Barlow, William, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Robert Johnson -- Memphis Minnie -- T-Bone Walker -- Duke Ellington -- Count Basie -- Fats Waller -- Charlie Parker -- Billie Holiday -- Louis Jordan -- Nat King Cole -- Dinah Washington -- Sam Cooke.…”

Born to swing / by Wood, Ean

Table of Contents: “…Taking it from the top -- The Roaring Twenties -- Fletcher Henderson -- White bands of the twenties -- Black bands of the twenties -- Duke Ellington : part one -- Into the thirties -- Stompin' at the Savoy -- Benny Goodman -- The Dorsey Brothers -- Black bands of the thirties -- White bands of the thirties -- Count Basie -- Artie Shaw -- Duke Ellington : part two -- Glenn Miller -- Charlie Barnet -- Woody Herman -- Ride-out.…”

Rifftide : the life and opinions of Papa Jo Jones / by Jones, Jo, 1911-1985

Table of Contents: “…The musical life of Papa Jo Jones / Paul Devlin -- I have had a varied life -- Can't nobody tell me one inch about show business -- The Count Basie institution -- They said the Negro would never be free -- My thirst after knowledge will never cease -- People I've rubbed elbows with -- I often wondered why I was such a strange fella -- The persistence of Papa Jo Jones / Phil Schaap.…”

Jazz piano : 14 transcriptions of recorded performances by 14 innovative jazz pianists /

Table of Contents: “…Ad lib blues / Count Basie -- All of you / Herbie Hancock -- All the things you are / Bud Powell -- Dark eyes / Tommy Flanagan -- Frankie and Johnny /Errol Garner -- Greensleeves / Jimmy Smith -- Honeysuckle rose / Nat King Cole -- Humoreske / Mary Lou Williams -- I can't get started / Teddy Wilson -- Miserere (from II Trovatore) / Jelly Roll Morton -- My funny Valentine / Bill Evans -- Nice work if you can get it / Thelonious Monk -- This is new / Chick Corea -- When you and I were young, Maggie / Fats Waller.…”

The world of swing / by Dance, Stanley

Table of Contents: “…Something to pat your foot by : [interview with] Count Basie and Freddie Green -- Swinging : an informal symposium : [discussion with] Jonah Jones ... …”