Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

* 1904 – Count Basie, American pianist, bandleader, and composer ( Count Basie Orchestra ) ( d. 1984 )

Big bands such as those of Duke Ellington ( at the very beginning of his career ), Bennie Moten, and Count Basie performed head arrangements ( ibid ).

In general, the larger the ensemble, the greater the need for a formal arrangement, although the early Count Basie big band was famous for its head arrangements, so called because they were worked out by the players themselves, memorized immediately and never written down.

Most arrangements for large ensembles, big bands, in the swing era, were written down, however, and credited to a specific arranger, as were later arrangements for the Count Basie big band by Sammy Nestico and Neal Hefti.

Bandleader Count Basie has a cameo as himself.

The film is full of deliberate anachronisms, from the Count Basie Orchestra playing " April in Paris " in the Wild West, to Slim Pickens referring to the Wide World of Sports, to the German Heer of WWII.

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

Some guitarists, such as Freddie Green of Count Basie ’ s band, developed a guitar-specific style of accompaniment.

Freddie Green, guitarist in the Count Basie orchestra, was a noted exponent this style.

Large scale pieces such as De Staat ( 1972 – 76 ), for example, are influenced by the energy of the big band music of Count Basie and Stan Kenton and the repetitive procedures of Steve Reich, both combined with bright, clashing dissonances.

The precursors of rhythm and blues came from jazz and blues, which overlapped in the Late-1920s, 1930s through the work of musicians such as The Harlem Hamfats, with their 1936 hit " Oh Red ", as well as Lonnie Johnson, Leroy Carr, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, and T-Bone Walker.

The song has become a jazz standard with performances by Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, the Stan Kenton Orchestra and many others.

** Count Basie, American musician and composer ( b. 1904 )

* Count Basie

* August 21 – Count Basie, American musician and bandleader ( d. 1984 )

Competition was also intensifying, as African-American and white swing bands began to receive popular attention, including those of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Benny Carter, Earl Hines, Chick Webb, and Count Basie.

The Ellington and Count Basie orchestras recorded together.

Fitzgerald's most famous collaborations were with the trumpeter Louis Armstrong, the guitarist Joe Pass, and the bandleaders Count Basie and Duke Ellington.

* Fitzgerald is sometimes referred to as the quintessential swing singer, and her meetings with Count Basie are highly regarded by critics.

Fitzgerald's appearance with Sinatra and Count Basie in June 1974 for a series of concerts at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, was seen as an important incentive for Sinatra to return from his self-imposed retirement of the early 1970s.

The shows were a great success, and September 1975 saw them gross $ 1, 000, 000 in two weeks on Broadway, in a triumvirate with the Count Basie Orchestra.

and General the Count Pallavicini, founder of the Austrian branch of that celebrated Italian house, a courtier Littlepage could have met at Madrid in December, 1780.

Count Jules-Albert de Dion was first into Rouen after 6 hours and 48 minutes at an average speed of 19 km / h.

The Augustinian monastery at Salamanca contains the tomb of the Count and Countess de Monterey, another work by Algardi.

Near Guimarães, at the Battle of São Mamede ( 1128 ) he overcame the troops under his mother's second husband and ally Count Fernando Peres de Trava of Galicia, exiling her forever to a monastery in Galicia.

19th century painting on display at Versailles, Yvelines | Versailles depicting Adhemar of Le Puy ( in red to left of Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse ).

* 1770 – The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.

* Count Aelianus, leader of the Roman defensive forces at the Siege of Amida in 359.

The only forces immediately available for Vienna's defence were Prince Louis of Baden's force of 36, 000 stationed in the Lines of Stollhofen to watch Marshal Tallard at Strasbourg ; there was also a weak force of 10, 000 men under Field Marshal Count Limburg Styrum observing Ulm.

On 10 June, the Duke met for the first time the President of the Imperial War Council, Prince Eugene – accompanied by Count Wratislaw – at the village of Mundelsheim, half-way between the Danube and the Rhine.

In the village of Lutzingen, Count Maffei positioned five Bavarian battalions with a great battery of 16 guns at the village's edge.

With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.

Others who were either killed or captured at the actual Battle were as follows: King Jean II ; Prince Philip ( youngest son and progenitor of the House of Valois-Burgundy ), Geoffroi de Charny, carrier of the Oriflamme, Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, Walter VI, Count of Brienne and Constable of France, Jean de Clermont, Marshal of France, Arnoul d ' Audrehem, the Count of Eu, the Count of Marche and Ponthieu Jacques de Bourbon taken prisoner at the Battle and died 1361, the Count of Étampes, the Count of Tancarville, the Count of Dammartin, the Count of Joinville, Guillaume de Melun, Archbishop of Sens.

In 1957, Basie released the live album Count Basie at Newport.

* Count Basie at Newport – Count Basie

Washington's achievements included appearances at the Newport Jazz Festival ( 1955 – 59 ), the Randalls Island Jazz Festival in New York City ( 1959 ), and the International Jazz Festival in Washington D. C. ( 1962 ), frequent gigs at Birdland ( 1958, 1961 – 62 ), and performances in 1963 with Count Basie and Duke Ellington.

In 1962 Williams sings along with Jimmy Rushing with Count Basie & His Orchestra at the Newport Jazz Festival.

) Willen is not recorded by name in the Domesday Survey, but it can be identified with the 4 hides 1 virgate assessed under Caldecote, part of the neighbouring parish of Newport Pagnell, and held under the Count of Mortain by Alvered.

saxophone, and whiz drummer Larry Ramsden ) that one night at the ' 56 Newport Jazz Festival, Count Basie, late for his appearance, as he

Joe Williams toured with the band and was featured on the 1957 album One O ' Clock Jump, and 1956's Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings, with " Every Day ( I Have the Blues )" becoming a huge hit.

He appeared with Count Basie and his Orchestra in the 1957 rock and roll movie Jamboree ( 1957 film ), released by Warner Brothers.

Williams played in several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents on TV, including " The Long Shot " ( 1955 ), " Back for Christmas " ( 1956 ), " Whodunit " ( 1956 ), " Wet Saturday " ( 1956 ), " The Rose Garden " ( 1956 ), the 3-part episode " I Killed the Count " ( 1957 ), and " Banquo ’ s Chair " ( 1959 ).

In 1957, she had married Joseph Czernin, son of Count Franz Josef Czernin, and they have five daughters and a son, Peter Joseph Czernin ( born 1966 ), who is heir to the title.

* Count Five and Die ( 1957 )

Of Navarran Basque Carlist aristocracy, Jaime is the fourth of the five sons and one daughter of Amalio de Marichalar y Bruguera, 8th Count of Ripalda, ( Madrid, 13 May 1912-Madrid, 26 December 1979 ) and his wife ( m. Torrecilla de Cameros, La Rioja, 25 July 1957 ) María de la Concepción Sáenz de Tejada y Fernández de Boadilla ( Logroño, La Rioja, 3 January 1929 -).

In 1957, Soichiro Honda approached Mondial owner Count Boselli for purchase of a Mondial racebike, with which the firm had just won the 125 cc and 250 cc world titles.

* Count Five and Die ( 1957 )

As a young man Juan Carlos completed his four-year military training and then received a rigorous two year liberal education in the European tradition as insisted upon by his father Don Juan, Count of Barcelona, in 1957.

Schmidt-Görg ( 1957 ) published 13 so far unknown love letters by Beethoven to Josephine Brunsvik ( plus one draft letter by him that survived as a copy by Josephine ), that could be dated to the time period from 1804 to 1809 / 10 when she was a widow ( after the early death of her first husband Count Deym ), however, he dismissed Kaznelson ’ s discoveries as “ sensational ”.

His other notable English-language films include The Barefoot Contessa ( 1954 ), The Story of Esther Costello ( 1957 ), South Pacific ( 1958 ), Count Your Blessings ( 1959 ), The Light in the Piazza ( 1962 ), and The Italian Job ( 1969 ).