Count Basie: Three for the Blues

Thursday is as good a day as any for a Count Basie break. Here are three video clips that went up at YouTube in the past bunch of months:

Here's Basie on Chicago's WGN-TV in 1964. Dig Sonny Payne on Corner Pocket and that stick toss...



Here's Basie with Sarah Vaughan in 1975...



And here's Joe Williams with Basie on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1959...



Bonus: Here's Jerry Lewis acting out every Basie fan's fantasy—to conduct the Basie band on April in Paris...