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.

Prior to Doctor Who he appeared in numerous TV shows including, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Ivanhoe, Dial 999, Danger Man, Maigret, Compact, The Third Man, Crane, Detective, Sherlock Holmes, No Hiding Place, The Saint, Armchair Theatre, The Wednesday Play, Z-Cars, Adam Adamant Lives!

Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey

* In Red Bank, New Jersey, the Count Basie Theatre, a property on Monmouth Street redeveloped for live performances, and Count Basie Field were named in his honor.

* 2012: The Count of Monte Cristo by Richard Bean, Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre's production of The Count of Monte Cristo will be broadcast live to cinemas worldwide on 17 January 2013 as part of the National Theatre Live programme.

The Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank

The Count Basie Theatre is also home to Phoenix Productions, a non-profit community theatre founded in 1988 puts on large scale musicals four times a year.

* Count Franz Pocci-Founding director of the Munich Marionette Theatre, shadow puppeteer and writer of countless puppet plays

* The Count of Luxembourg London production opened at Daly's Theatre on May 20 and ran for 340 performances

Springsteen and the E Street Band performed Born to Run in its entirety and in order for the first time at a benefit performance at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey, on May 7, 2008.

According to David Hunter, the Count contributed some of the songs to L ' incostanza delusa, an opera performed at the Haymarket Theatre in London on all but one of the Saturdays from the 9th of February to the 20th of April 1745.

After this he appeared at the Adelphi Theatre ( 1868 ) as Obenreizer in No Thoroughfare, by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, as Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo, and as Count de Leyrac in Black and White, a play in which the actor himself collaborated with Wilkie Collins.

Aicher was heavily influenced by Count Franz Pocci who founded the Munich Marionette Theatre in Germany in 1855.

There he wrote a number of plays, often autobiographical, and became the protégé of Count Georg von Hülsen-Haeseler ( 1858 – 1922 ), the artistic director of the Prussian Royal Theatre.

McElhone began her career in the theatre, including starring in Richard III in Regent's Park, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Cherry Orchard at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester ; and in Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre.

After a few years the House of Saxe-Hildburghausen closed the activity of his orchestra, since he had to leave Vienna to assume the regency in Hildburghausen, and August Carl was hired by the Empress for her own orchestra through Count Durazzo, Theatre Director at the Imperial Court.

Also in 1992 Billy Bob Thornton directed the movie Widespread Panic: Live from the Georgia Theatre which features a music video for " Basically Frightened " performed by Col. Bruce Hampton & The Aquarium Rescue Unit with Chuck Leavell and Count M ' Butu.

Notably, Forman was able to shoot scenes in the Count Nostitz Theatre in Prague, where Don Giovanni and La Clemenza di Tito debuted two centuries before.

The musical Count of Monte Cristo, with a score by Wildhorn and book and lyrics by Jack Murphy, received a workshop reading in November 2008, and opened at the Theatre of St. Gallen, Switzerland in March 2009.

The Estates Theatre was designed by Anton Haffenecker and built in a little less than two years for the aristocrat František Antonín Count Nostitz Rieneck.

Prague's first theatre, Count Sporck's Theatre 1724-1735, was a private aristocratic venture.