Count Basie Movies

An all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen.

A one-hour live television special starring Fred Astaire.

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...

Count Basie and His Orchestra playing us a boogie.

Improvisational jazz performance filmed in 1950 by Gjon Mili plus Duke Ellington Trio filmed in July 1966, Count Basie at the Montreux Jazz Festival...

Dennis Awe Performs 38 of his all time favourite songs.

The two musical masters swing out.

Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the...

Crime comedy.

Count Basie Orchestra's "Take Me Back, Baby".

Short film featuring performances by Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson, Billie Holiday and Count Basie and his sextet. From the Cinema Apart Collection.

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...