# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B1cFI2ylawz
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16447586-gettyimages-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/a7e6ba7934.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-08-21T20:03:46.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

“I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some fancy little business cards printed up to announce it, ‘Count Basie; Beware, the Count is Here’.”
One of the biggest old names - and the first African-American man to win a Grammy award - the legendary musician was born 115 years ago today.
📷: Composer, bandleader & pianist Count Basie with Frank Sinatra in 1964 | John Bryson/Sygma via Getty Images | gettyarchive 
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