Cheek to Cheek, Rat Race, and Open the Door, Richard are among the tunes that will fill the air when the Count Basie 78 RM Records will be heard this week's The Jazz-O-Rama Hour. Host Joe Bev presents 78 RPM Jazz with a Sense of Humor: Open the Door, Richard: The 78 RPM Records of Count Basie, including:  1. Swingin' The Blues (1938) 2. Swingin' The Blues (1947) 3. Boo Hoo (1937) 4. Topsy (1937) 5. Exactly Like You (1937) 6. Rat Race (1950) 7.Open The Door, Richard 8. Out The Window (1937) 9. Cheek to Cheek (1947) 10.South (1947) 11. Doggin' Around (1938) 12. Solidasa Rock (1950) 13. Swinging At The Daisy Chain (1937) 14. Smarty (You Know It All) (1937) 15. Every Tub (1937) 16. Seventh Avenue Express (1947)   William "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. His mother first taught him piano and he started performing in his teens. Dropping out of school, he learned to operate lights for vaudeville and to improvise accompaniment for silent films at a local movie theater in his town of Red Bank, New Jersey. By 16, he increasingly played jazz piano at parties, resorts and other venues. In 1924, he went to Harlem, where his performing career expanded; he toured with groups to the major jazz cities of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. In 1929 he joined Bennie Moten's band in Kansas City, and played with them until Moten's death in 1935. That year Basie formed his own jazz 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. Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, the guitarist Freddie Green, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. Basie's theme songs were "One O'Clock Jump," developed in 1935 in the early days of his band, and "April In Paris". Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) has been producing radio in many genres since 1971 when he was 12. At 19 in 1980, Bev became the youngest person to produce a radio show for public radio. He co-hosted The Jazz Show with Garret Gega in the early 80s, a four hour a week mix classic jazz and comedy. Bev also worked for WBGO, Jazz 88 in Newark, NJ and produced documentaries for WNYC New York Public Radio on jazz legends including Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Cab Calloway, and Lionel Hampton. More about Waterlogg Productions at htttp://www.waterlogg.com.
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