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Hall of Fame (Count Basie album)

album by Count Basie

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ25095284 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hall of Fame is an album by pianist/bandleader Count Basie and His Orchestra recorded in 1956 and first released on the Verve label in 1959.

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hall of Fame (Count Basie album)” is album by Count Basie. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hall, Fame and Count, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Hall, Fame and Count is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Count Basie” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q25095284. The first chronological checks are 1956 and 1959.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Hall of Fame (Count Basie album)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Hall of Fame (Count Basie album) primary sources, Hall of Fame (Count Basie album) archive and Hall research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Hall of Fame (Count Basie album)”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Hall of Fame (Count Basie album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.