Promotional portrait of American musician Count Basie as he plays piano and leads his jazz orchestra, circa 1950.
Publicity handout features a portrait of American Jazz musician and bandleader Count Basie , 1930s. Count Basie, American composer, conductor, and...
Publicity handout of Count Basie , pianist and composer one of outstanding organizers of big bands and jazz history. Depicted in this undated...
Count Basie leans in the foreground as Frank Sinatra stands at a lectern near a microphone. Sinatra worked on arrangements with Basie and toured with...
African-American jazz musician Count Basie and a Jazz orchestra playing music at Washington University of Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1952.
London, England - Musical royalty descends on London, as famed orchestra leader Count Basie turns on the high jinks for the photographer after...
Portrait of American Jazz musician and bandleader Count Basie as he sits at a piano, backstage at the Apollo Theater, New York, New York, 1961.
Count Basie during Count Basie at a taping of the PBS series "Soundstage" in Chicago - September 15th,1978 at WTTW Channel 11 in Chicago, Illinois,...
African-American jazz musician Count Basie, African-American composer, pianist, bandleader and Jazz musician Duke Ellington and college students at...
American Jazz musician and bandleader Count Basie plays piano as he performs onstage with the Count Basie Orchestra at the Apollo Theater, New York,...
American jazz pianist and composer Count Basie performs on the BBC Television show 'Jazz at the Maltings' at Snape Maltings near Aldeburgh in...
New York, NY: Portrait of Count Basie, jazz musician and bandleader, at the piano during a jam session at the Manhattan Center in the 1940's. Undated...
African-American jazz musician Count Basie, singer Sarah Vaughan and Benny Goodman, New York City, New York, October 9, 1948.
African-American jazz musician Count Basie, with a crowd, playing the piano during a concert, November 2, 1940.
Jazz pianist and composer William James 'Count' Basie performs on a TV show circa 1972 in Los Angeles, California.
Portrait of American jazz musician Count Basie during the recording of an episode of the PBS television series 'Soundstage,' Chicago, Illinois,...
Portrait of American jazz musician Count Basie during the recording of an episode of the PBS television series 'Soundstage,' Chicago, Illinois,...
John Coltrane plays a saxophone while Count Basie plays the piano as another man looks on circa 1950.
American jazz pianist and composer Count Basie performs on the BBC Television show 'Jazz at the Maltings' at Snape Maltings near Aldeburgh in...
American Jazz and Swing musician Count Basie plays a melodica, accompanied by his bulldog Graf, as they sit poolside at his home, Freeport, Bahamas,...
American Jazz musicians Count Basie , on piano, and singer Ella Fitzgerald perform during an episode of the PBS television series 'Soundstage,'...
American Jazz musicians Count Basie , on piano, and singer Ella Fitzgerald perform during an episode of the PBS television series 'Soundstage,'...
Publicity portrait of legendary jazz musician Count Basie. The Count is shown here seated, with his arms crossed, holding a cigarette. Undated...
Richard Wright and Count Basie at recording session where Basie band recorded music by Clinton R. Brewer, a convict who has been in prison since 1931.
African-American jazz musician Count Basie being sworn in as honorary sheriff, Wayne County, Michigan, September 17, 1940.
African-American jazz musician Count Basie and singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer Lena Horne during a ceremony, November 17, 1966.
American pianist and bandleader Count Basie at the piano during a recording session, perforated acoustic boards on the wall in the background,...
Portrait of American Jazz and Swing musician Count Basie , and his bulldog Graf, in his home, Freeport, Bahamas, March 1979. In the room are a...
American singer and actor Frank Sinatra in his dressing room with composer, pianist, and bandleader Count Basie.
American jazz musician Count Basie and his orchestra arrive at London Airport for a tour of Britain, 4th April 1957. Basie is in the front centre,...
Backstage at the Apollo Theater, American Jazz musician and bandleader Count Basie , in a dressing gown, talks on the telephone, New York, New York,...
Backstage at the Apollo Theater, American Jazz musician and bandleader Count Basie , in a dressing gown, speaks with an unidentified man, New York,...
Backstage at the Apollo Theater, American Jazz musician and bandleader Count Basie , in a dressing gown, sits with a telephone on the arm of his...
American Jazz musicians Count Basie , on piano, and singer Ella Fitzgerald perform during an episode of the PBS television series 'Soundstage,'...
England: Photo shows most famous American jazzman Count Basie is seen during this morning's rehearsal at the Leicester Square Rehearsal Rooms of...
African-American jazz musician Count Basie and African-American actress and singer Pearl Bailey celebrating his 40th birthday, 1944.
African-American jazz musician Count Basie attending a baseball game, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1959.
African-American jazz musician Count Basie and actress Bette Davis playing the piano, March 31, 1947.