Research Catalog

  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNE 81-5Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 98-956Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • [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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNE 86-6Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 15-577Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 86-379Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Count Basie / Alun Morgan ; selected discography by Alun Morgan.

    • Text
    • Tunbridge Wells, Kent : Spellmount ; New York : Hippocrene Books, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNC 85-6Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 87-430Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Count Basie : a bio-discography / compiled by Chris Sheridan.

    • Text
    • New York : Greenwood Press, 1986.
    • 1986
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *L 86-4687Offsite

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 87-61Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Count Basie portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1935?-1980?>
    • 1935-1980
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Basie, Count folder 1Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Basie, Count folder 2Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • 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-d789-58d385a7bc34
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Holiday, BillieSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Count Basie : sein Leben, seine Musik, seine Schallplatten / Rainer Nolden.

    • Text
    • Schaftlach : Oreos, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *L 91-2026Offsite
  • 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-6d567441a2fb
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Wright, RichardSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • [Songs and transcriptions for piano / composed, arranged and or performed by Count Basie and others].

    • Notated music
    • 1938-1959.
    • 1938-1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Sc Scores Basie (Basie, C. Songs and transcriptions for piano)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • [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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Motion picturesSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 780.9-H (Horricks, R. Count Basie and his orchestra)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNE 94-32Offsite
  • [Count Basie profile] [sound recording] / [produced by WMAQ Radio, Chicago].

    • Audio
    • 1956.
    • 1956
  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-122Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • 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-11a8-58d385a7bc34
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 32Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 33Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 34Offsite
  • Gordon Anderson collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • 1947-[198-]
    • 1947-198
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/8acca770-de0d-0137-97d8-13c9abd78037
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Gordon Anderson CollectionSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Don Redman photograph collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • [18--?-197-?]
    • 197-197
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Don Redman Collection box 1Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Don Redman Collection box 2Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1065 Disc 1Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1065 Disc 2Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1065 Disc 3Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Oral history interview with Clark Terry.

    • Moving image
    • New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1993.
    • 1993-915
    • 4 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc DVD-1076 Pt. 1Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-194aSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-194bSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1080 Disc 1Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1080 Disc 2Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Count Basie and his orchestra / by Charles Garrod.

    • Text
    • Zephyrhills, Fla. (Box 1687, Zephyrhills 34283) : Joyce Record Club, 1987-
    • 1987-present
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *L 98-509 v. 1, September (1987)Offsite

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *L 98-509 v. 2, Jan. (1988)Offsite

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *L 98-509 v. 3, June (1989)Offsite

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  • Oral history interview with Doc Cheatham.

    • Moving image
    • New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1993.
    • 1993-401
    • 5 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1067 Disc 3Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1067 Disc 4Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1067 Disc 5Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-405Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-411Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Count Basie and his orchestra, its music and its musicians. With discography by Alun Morgan.

    • Text
    • London, Gollancz, 1957.
    • 1957
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MEC (Basie) (Horricks, R. Count Basie and his orchestra)Offsite
  • Count Basie / Bruno Schiozzi.

    • Text
    • Milano : Ricordi, c1961.
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordings Box 13Offsite
  • Count Basie / Bud Kliment.

    • Text
    • Los Angeles : Melrose Square Pub. Co., c1994.
    • 1994-1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 00-455Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Lena Horne photograph collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • [192-?]-1985.
    • 198-1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Lena Horne CollectionSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 03-271Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Count Basie : swingin' the blues, 1936-1950 / Ken Vail.

    • Text
    • Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 04-212Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Jazz giants [sound recording] : [radio broadcast] / John Hammond.

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y., 196u.
    • 196
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio Sc Audio DAT-3Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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  • Do nothin' 'til you hear from me / produced and directed by Marsha Westerbrook.

    • Moving image
    • Brooklyn : Brooklyn College, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-693Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Basie, Count (William) : clippings

    • Text
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text M-Clippings (Names)Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 09-8Offsite
  • To Basie with love : March 7th, 1982, Radio City Music Hall.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia, PA : BMA, [1982]
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 09-356Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *LVH 7Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Billie Holiday : photographs.

    • Text
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *T-Pho B (Holiday, Billie)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Malagueña / Lecuona. Impressions of Basie / Kostelanetz.

    • Audio
    • [New York] : Vdisc, 1944.
    • 1944
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LR 11822Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Une civilisation du rythme / Jacques Réda.

    • Text
    • Paris : Buchet-Chastel, [2017]
    • 2017
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *LDC 53753Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 17-12286Offsite

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  • Harry E. Jones photograph collection.

    • Still image
    • [1940?]-1977.
    • 197-1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Harry E. Jones CollectionSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Jazz Music.

    • Mixed material
    • 1936-1965.
    • 1936-1965
    • 5 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 958 (Jazz Music) v. 2Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 958 (Jazz Music) v. 3Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 958 (Jazz Music) v. 4Offsite
  • Alvin Thaler photographs of The Sound of Jazz.

    • Still image
    • 1957.
    • 1957
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image JPB 19-03Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 17-85Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Basie, Count William.

    • Text
  • Edouard Plummer collection.

    • Still image
    • [between 1950 and 2003?]
    • 200-200
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Eduoard Plummer Collection Box 1Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Eduoard Plummer Collection Box 2Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML422.B25 H6 1971Off-site

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