Author: CHRIS SHERIDAN
Title: Count Basie - A Bio-Discography
Description: Greenwood Press, 1986. Hardcover. Pp: 1350. Discographies, Number 22.nThis exhaustively researched work offers detailed information on more than 1,100 recordings spanning 55 years of Count Basie's performances. It also provides extensive cross-referenced listings of tunes, musicians, soloists, and arrangers, and an itinerary of the band's engagements from the time Basie left Kansas City in 1936 to his death in 1984. The main text consists of chronologically arranged, annotated entries on five different categories of recordings: commercial sessions, electrical transcriptions for use by radio stations, broadcasts recorded privately or held in radio or television archives, films and videos, and location recordings of engagements. The text is enlivened by comments on musical significance, personnel changes, and relevant news events of the day, as well as pertinent anecdotes. ISBN: 0313249350. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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