Count Basie And His Orchestra Album Half A Sixpence Genre Jazz Vinyl 12” LP Record Gift Vintage Music Collection American Musician

Count Basie And His Orchestra

Title: Half A Sixpence

Music From The Paramount Motion Picture

Released: 1968 UK

Format: 12” Vinyl LP Record

Number of Discs: 1

Label: Contour

Genre: Jazz

Condition: Used - Excellent

Half a Sixpence is an album pianist and bandleader Count Basie and His Orchestra featuring performances of music from the motion picture Half a Sixpence.

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, Basie formed his own jazz orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two "split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their sound, and others.