William James ‘Count’ Basie, born August 21, 1904, was a great bandleader, pianist and composer. He formed his own orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, in 1935 and led the orchestra for almost 50 years, until his death on April 26, 1984.
Count Basie is interviewed by Dutch pianist Pim Jacobs, who doubled as a presenter at the North Sea Jazz Festival where Basie and his Orchestra just finished a great performance on stage of the festival in The Hague’s Congress Building, the Netherlands, in July 1979.
In this short interview Basie talks about his fabulous rhythm section: bassist John Clayton and drummer Butch Miles and about working on his his autobiography.
The interview took place on 14 July 1979, a month before Count Basie’s 75th birthday.
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