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William “Count” Basie was born in Redbank, New Jersey on August 21, 1904. His mother started teaching him piano at a young age. Later on he studied informally with Fats Waller. When he was a teenager Basie decided that he wanted to be a drummer, but after being consistently outplayed by Sonny Greer, he decided [...]

I’m late posting today so I don’t have time to write a bio. There are so many great musicians on this that I wouldn’t know who to write about anyway.
Check out this really fast performance of “Donna Lee”.