Editing Count Basie (section)

==Representation in other media==
* [[Jerry Lewis]] used "Blues in Hoss' Flat" from Basie's ''[[Chairman of the Board (record)|Chairman of the Board]]'' album, as the basis for his own "Chairman of the Board" routine in the movie ''[[The Errand Boy]].''
*"Blues in Hoss' Flat," composed by Basie band member [[Frank Foster (jazz musician)|Frank Foster]], was used by the radio DJ Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins as his theme song in San Francisco and New York.
* In ''[[Home Alone 2: Lost in New York]]'' (1992), [[Brenda Fricker]]'s "Pigeon Lady" character claims to have heard Basie in [[Carnegie Hall]].
* Drummer [[Neil Peart]] of the Canadian rock band [[Rush (band)|Rush]] recorded a version of "One O'Clock Jump" with the [[Buddy Rich|Buddy Rich Big Band]], and has used it at the end of his drum solos on the 2002 [[Vapor Trails Tour]] and Rush's [[R30: 30th Anniversary Tour|30th Anniversary Tour]].
*Since 1963 "The Kid From Red Bank" has been the theme and [[Theme music|signature music]] for the most popular [[Norway|Norwegian]] radio show, ''Reiseradioen,'' aired at [[NRK P1]] every day during the summer.
* In the 2016 movie ''[[The Matchbreaker]]'', Emily Atkins ([[Christina Grimmie]]) recounts the story of how Count Basie met his wife three times without speaking to her, telling her he would marry her some day in their first conversation, and then marrying her seven years later.
*The [[post-hardcore]] band [[Dance Gavin Dance]] have a song titled "Count Bassy" that is included on their 2018 album [[Artificial Selection (album)|''Artificial Selection'']].
*In his novel ''[[This Storm (novel)|This Storm]]'', [[James Ellroy]] makes Basie a character who is blackmailed by corrupt Los Angeles police to play a New Year's Eve concert in exchange for ignoring a marijuana charge.