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Count Basie

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Pianist
Died
Apr 26, 1984
Zodiac
Leo
Born in
Red Bank NJ
About
Swing-era bandleader noted for his theme songs One O'Clock Jump from 1937 and April in Paris from 1932.
Family
His father was a student of the mellophone, and his mother was a pianist. His mother paid 25 cents per piano lesson for him when he was young. He married Catherine Morgan on August 21, 1942, with whom he had one child.

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