Frases de Count Basie

William Basie , conocido como Count Basie, fue un director de big band y pianista estadounidense de jazz.

Se trata de uno de los músicos de jazz más populares de la historia, vinculado, prácticamente durante cincuenta años, a la dirección de una big band de importante influencia en determinados registros estilísticos del jazz asociados, principalmente, al swing y a su corriente más tradicional. Wikipedia

✵ 21. agosto 1904 – 26. abril 1984

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Count Basie: Frases en inglés

“It's the way you play that makes it. What I say is, for Christ's sake, you don't have to kill yourself to sing. Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.”

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Good Morning Blues : The Autobiography of Count Basie (1985) by Count Basie and Albert Murray

“Contrary to several conflicting stories, I got the name "Count" right in Kansas City in 1936 while at the Reno Club. I was known as Bill Basie at that time. One night, while we were broadcasting, the announcer called me to the microphone for those usual few words of introduction. He commented that Bill Basie was a rather ordinary name, and further that there were a couple of well-known bandleaders named Earl Hines and Duke Ellington. Then he said, "Bill, I think I'll call you Count Basie from now on. Is that all right with you?" I thought he was kidding, shrugged my shoulders and replied, "OK." Well that was the last time I was ever introduced as Bill Basie. From then on, it was Count Basie, and I never did lose that nickname. It's funny the way those things will stick.”

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As quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya : The Story of Jazz as Told by the Men who Made It (1966) by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, p. 301