Count Basie (1904-1984) was one of America's pre-eminent jazz pianists, bandleaders and composers. With the charm, dry humour and inexorable logic of phrasing that were his alone, Good Morning Blues stands as both testimony and tribute to a remarkably rich life.

" After reading Good Morning Blues one approaches Basie's music in a new way: one listens for his particular voicings... [It] is one of the most finished and evocative life histories of an American musician ever written." - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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