Posed photo portrait of American jazz bandleader and pianist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Basie" class="extiw" title="w:Count Basie">Count Basie</a>, seated at the piano, in 1955.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:James_J._Kriegsmann" class="extiw" title="w:en:James J. Kriegsmann"><span title="American photographer (1909–1994)">James J. Kriegsmann</span></a>
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1955
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