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Count Basie and his bands / edited by Dan Morgenstern and Jack Bradley ; biographies by Bill Esposito, Dan Morgenstern, Arnold J. Smith.
- Text
- [New York] : New York Jazz Museum, c1975.
- 1975
The world of Count Basie / Stanley Dance.
- Text
- New York : C. Scribner's Sons, c1980.
- 1980
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNE 81-5 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 98-956 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
[Duke Ellington] [sound recording] / Count Basie.
- Audio
- [New York : Duke Ellington Society, New York Chapter, 1968]
- 1968
Good morning blues : the autobiography of Count Basie / as told to Albert Murray.
- Text
- New York : Random House, c1985.
- 1985
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNE 86-6 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 15-577 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 86-379 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Count Basie / Alun Morgan ; selected discography by Alun Morgan.
- Text
- Tunbridge Wells, Kent : Spellmount ; New York : Hippocrene Books, 1984.
- 1984
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNC 85-6 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 87-430 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Count Basie : a bio-discography / compiled by Chris Sheridan.
- Text
- New York : Greenwood Press, 1986.
- 1986
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *L 86-4687 Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 87-61 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Count Basie portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1935?-1980?>
- 1935-1980
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Basie, Count folder 1 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Basie, Count folder 2 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Billie Holiday portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1937?-1986?>
- 1937-1986
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/8903b2c0-c5f1-012f-080d-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=128:ffdb7620-c5f1-012f-d789-58d385a7bc34Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Holiday, Billie Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Count Basie : sein Leben, seine Musik, seine Schallplatten / Rainer Nolden.
- Text
- Schaftlach : Oreos, c1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *L 91-2026 Offsite Richard Wright portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1940?-1959?>
- 1940-1959
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/8903b2c0-c5f1-012f-080d-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=285:6641f540-c930-0138-90ee-6d567441a2fbItem details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Wright, Richard Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
[Songs and transcriptions for piano / composed, arranged and or performed by Count Basie and others].
- Notated music
- 1938-1959.
- 1938-1959
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music Sc Scores Basie (Basie, C. Songs and transcriptions for piano) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
[1985 CEBA awards. Category 18] [sound recording] : [non-entertainment programming less than fifteen minutes].
- Audio
- United States : [various stations], 1984.
- 1984
Stage door canteen motion picture stills collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1943.>
- 1943
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Motion pictures Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Count Basie and his orchestra : its music and its musicians / Raymond Horricks ; with discography by Alun Morgan.
- Text
- New York : Citadel Press, 1957.
- 1957
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 780.9-H (Horricks, R. Count Basie and his orchestra) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Count Basie / Bud Kliment ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins ; [introductory essay by Coretta Scott King].
- Text
- New York : Chelsea House, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNE 94-32 Offsite Billie Holiday : a portrait / produced by Richard Bertematti ; narrated by Michael J. Hostetler ; commentary by Kathleen E. Bethel, African American Studies librarian, Northwestern University ; [photographs from the many faces of Billie Holiday by Robert O'Meally ; music by Billie Holiday and Benny Goodman ; engineer, Chris Kolosov].
- Moving image
- [Evanston, Ill. : R. Bertematti], c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-122 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
New York Jazz Museum photograph collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [195-]-[197-]
- 197-197
- 34 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/6bfa5670-c6b3-012f-11a8-58d385a7bc34Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 32 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 33 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 34 Offsite Gordon Anderson collection [graphic].
- Still image
- 1947-[198-]
- 1947-198
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/8acca770-de0d-0137-97d8-13c9abd78037Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Gordon Anderson Collection Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Don Redman photograph collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [18--?-197-?]
- 197-197
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Don Redman Collection box 1 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Don Redman Collection box 2 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Oral history interview with Yusef Lateef / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project ; interview conducted by Larry Ridley.
- Moving image
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1996.
- 1996-927
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1065 Disc 1 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1065 Disc 2 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1065 Disc 3 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Oral history interview with Clark Terry.
- Moving image
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1993.
- 1993-915
- 4 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc DVD-1076 Pt. 1 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-194a Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-194b Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Oral history interview with Chico Hamilton / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project ; interview conducted by Larry Ridley.
- Moving image
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1996
- 1996-1220
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1080 Disc 1 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1080 Disc 2 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Count Basie and his orchestra / by Charles Garrod.
- Text
- Zephyrhills, Fla. (Box 1687, Zephyrhills 34283) : Joyce Record Club, 1987-
- 1987-present
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *L 98-509 v. 1, September (1987) Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *L 98-509 v. 2, Jan. (1988) Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *L 98-509 v. 3, June (1989) Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Oral history interview with Doc Cheatham.
- Moving image
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1993.
- 1993-401
- 5 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1067 Disc 3 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1067 Disc 4 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1067 Disc 5 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Born to swing : the movie about the alumni of the Count Basie Band of 1943 / directed by John Jeremy.
- Moving image
- New York, NY : Rhapsody Films, ©1992.
- 1992-1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-405 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The last of the Blue Devils : the Kansas City jazz story / directed by Bruce Ricker.
- Moving image
- New York, NY : Rhapsody Films, ©1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-411 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Count Basie and his orchestra, its music and its musicians. With discography by Alun Morgan.
- Text
- London, Gollancz, 1957.
- 1957
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *MEC (Basie) (Horricks, R. Count Basie and his orchestra) Offsite Count Basie / Bruno Schiozzi.
- Text
- Milano : Ricordi, c1961.
- 1961
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *MEC (Basie) (Schiozzi, B. Count Basie) Offsite Swingin' the blues [videorecording] Count Basie / a co-production of Toby Byron/Multiprises in association with Taurus Film, Munich and VideoArts, Japan.
- Moving image
- New York, N.Y. : BMG Video, c1993, 1992.
- 1993-1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordings Box 13 Offsite Count Basie / Bud Kliment.
- Text
- Los Angeles : Melrose Square Pub. Co., c1994.
- 1994-1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 00-455 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Lena Horne photograph collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [192-?]-1985.
- 198-1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Lena Horne Collection Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Count Basie / Bud Kliment ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins ; [introductory essay by Coretta Scott King].
- Text
- New York : Chelsea House, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 03-271 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Count Basie : swingin' the blues, 1936-1950 / Ken Vail.
- Text
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 04-212 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Jazz giants [sound recording] : [radio broadcast] / John Hammond.
- Audio
- New York, N.Y., 196u.
- 196
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio Sc Audio DAT-3 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Not available - Please for assistance.Do nothin' 'til you hear from me / produced and directed by Marsha Westerbrook.
- Moving image
- Brooklyn : Brooklyn College, 1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-693 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Basie, Count (William) : clippings
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text M-Clippings (Names) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Dream lucky : when FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat-- / Roxane Orgill.
- Text
- New York : Smithsonian Books, c2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JND 09-8 Offsite To Basie with love : March 7th, 1982, Radio City Music Hall.
- Text
- Philadelphia, PA : BMA, [1982]
- 1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 09-356 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
A tribute to Count Basie [videorecording] / a CBS Cable production, in association with One Up Productions ; producers, Darlene Chan, Gary Shimokawa, Charles K. Simon ; director, Dick Carter.
- Moving image
- CBS Cable, c1981.
- 1981
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *LVH 7 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Not available - Please for assistance.Billie Holiday : photographs.
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *T-Pho B (Holiday, Billie) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Malagueña / Lecuona. Impressions of Basie / Kostelanetz.
- Audio
- [New York] : Vdisc, 1944.
- 1944
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LR 11822 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Une civilisation du rythme / Jacques Réda.
- Text
- Paris : Buchet-Chastel, [2017]
- 2017
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *LDC 53753 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 17-12286 Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Harry E. Jones photograph collection.
- Still image
- [1940?]-1977.
- 197-1977
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Harry E. Jones Collection Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Jazz Music.
- Mixed material
- 1936-1965.
- 1936-1965
- 5 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 958 (Jazz Music) v. 2 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 958 (Jazz Music) v. 3 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 958 (Jazz Music) v. 4 Offsite Alvin Thaler photographs of The Sound of Jazz.
- Still image
- 1957.
- 1957
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image JPB 19-03 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Good morning blues : the autobiography of Count Basie / as told to Albert Murray ; introduction by Dan Morgenstern.
- Text
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
- 2016
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JND 17-85 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Edouard Plummer collection.
- Still image
- [between 1950 and 2003?]
- 200-200
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Eduoard Plummer Collection Box 1 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Eduoard Plummer Collection Box 2 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Count Basie and his orchestra, its music and its musicians. With discography by Alun Morgan.
- Text
- Westport, Conn., Negro Universities Press [1971]
- 1971-1957
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML422.B25 H6 1971 Off-site
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