William James "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.
Movies6.2 1960 HD
When his father dies, poor Fella is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother and her two no-good sons Maximilian and Rupert. As he slaves away...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Jerry Lewis
Movies7 1979 HD
Documentary film detailing the history of Kansas City jazz.
Genre: Music
Cast: Count Basie
Movies1 2006 HD
The concert captured on William "Count" Basie's entry in the "must-own" audio/video Jazz Icons series comes from the vaults of Swedish Television....
Genre: Music
Cast: Count Basie
Movies1 2011 HD
Originally broadcast on CBS April 11, 1976, under the title THE ORIGINAL ROMPIN' STOMPIN' HOT AND HEAVY, COOL AND GROOVE ALL-STAR JAZZ SHOW, this...
Genre: Music
Cast: Stan Getz
Movies1 2001 HD
New York in the Fifties is the story of a unique time and place, when New York was the hotbed of new artistic expressions, free love, drinking, hot...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jack Kerouac
Movies9 1979 HD
The two musical masters swing out.
Genre: Music
Cast: Ella Fitzgerald
Movies6.25 1941 HD
Count Basie does a little rhyming rapping before going into this Benny Goodman instrumental composition. While he's playing, plenty of couples are...
Genre: Music
Cast: Count Basie
Movies1 1981 HD
Though it was taped 16 years after the first A Man And His Music special, this final installment continues to uphold the high standards of the...
Genre: Music
Cast: Frank Sinatra
Movies6.1 1943 HD
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: William Terry
Movies1 2004 HD
Improvisational jazz performance filmed in 1950 by Gjon Mili plus Duke Ellington Trio filmed in July 1966, Count Basie at the Montreux Jazz Festival...
Genre: Music
Cast: Count Basie
Movies7 1941 HD
Count Basie Orchestra's "Take Me Back, Baby".
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Cast: Count Basie
Movies6 1955 HD
Rhythm and Blues Revue is a plotless variety show, one of several compiled for theatrical exhibition from the made-for-television short films...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Lionel Hampton
Movies6 1993 HD
Blues as a genre shaped the sound of jazz in the early 20th century and directly led to the creation of rock 'n' roll in the '50s. The scales,...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Keith David
Movies1 1943 HD
In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Donald O'Connor
Movies5 1943 HD
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names...
Genre: Music
Cast: Ole Olsen
Movies1 1938 HD
Crime comedy.
Genre: Crime
Cast: James Baskett
Movies1 2007 HD
During a decade rife with paranoia, in the middle of the McCarthy era, Music Inn was a bold experiment. Halfway between the Second World War and The...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Louis Armstrong
Movies1 1950 HD
Count Basie and His Orchestra playing us a boogie.
Genre: Music
Cast: Count Basie
Movies7.6 2019 HD
Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage,...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jon Hamm
Movies9 1965 HD
The Rat Pack -- Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dean Martin -- in their only joint television performance. This special was televised via...
Genre: Music
Cast: Johnny Carson
Movies6.5 2003 HD
Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of rare historical...
Genre: Music
Cast: Ray Charles
Movies7 2020 HD
Told in Count Basie's own words, this biography sheds light on both the professional and the private life of the world-famous bandleader and pianist...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Count Basie
Movies6.7 2020 HD
‘Lady Day’ was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Billie Holiday
Movies10 1981 HD
Jazz legend Count Basie and His Orchestra performs a concert at New York's Carnegie Hall, with guests Sarah Vaughn, Tony Bennett and George Benson.
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Cast: Count Basie
Movies6.8 2022 HD
In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker nicknamed Bird just died, at 34. His...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Pierre Tissot
Movies1 1951 HD
Short film featuring performances by Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson, Billie Holiday and Count Basie and his sextet. From the Cinema Apart Collection.
Genre: Music
Cast: Frank 'Sugar Chile' Robinson
Movies7.255 1974 HD
A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley...
Genre: Western
Cast: Cleavon Little
Movies9 2022 HD
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Michel Lerokourez
Movies6.9 2022 HD
An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Louis Armstrong
Movies6 2004 HD
Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Cab Calloway
Movies4.7 1948 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Dusty Fletcher
Movies1 2006 HD
Genre: Music
Cast: Dennis Awe
S24 E266.529 1971 HD
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Ed Sullivan
S5 E314 1960 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Steve Allen
S1 E91 1950 HD
Cavalcade of Bands was an early-1950s American television series which aired on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.
Genre:
Cast: Charles "Buddy" Rogers
S7 E174.5 1970 HD
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970....
Genre: Comedy
Cast:
S1 E111 1980 HD
The Big Show is an American comedy-variety-musical television series produced and broadcast by NBC for several months in 1980. The series aimed to...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Charlie Hill
S1 E265.667 1967 HD
ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It...
Genre: Drama
Cast:
S7 E94 1963 HD
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was...
Genre:
Cast: Dinah Shore
S46 E17.2 2023 HD
The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.
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Cast:
S5 E2575.3 1967 HD
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC,...
Genre: Talk
Cast: Merv Griffin
S1 E268 1964 HD
The Judy Garland Show is an American musical variety television series that aired on CBS on Sunday nights during the 1963-1964 television season....
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Judy Garland
S24 E266.529 1971 HD
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Ed Sullivan
S24 E266.529 1971 HD
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Ed Sullivan
S24 E266.529 1971 HD
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Ed Sullivan
S5 E314 1960 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Steve Allen
S5 E314 1960 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Steve Allen
S22 E214.833 1981 HD
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Mike Douglas
S31 E747.3 1992 HD
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...
Genre: Talk
Cast: Johnny Carson
