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Source context
Visible Gateway description identifies Count Basie and the role band leader; pianist. Creation information: Aker, Joe; March 30, 1970. Source: Oklahoma Times, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, March 31, 1970. Collection: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection.
Oklahoma connection
Gateway caption directly identifies Count Basie as a band leader at the piano in an Oklahoma City performance context.
People, groups, or instruments recorded
band leader; pianist
Reading this source
This is a narrow band-leader or band-wording capture, not a full biography or identity resolution. Vocal-only or role-only evidence is retained as supporting rather than promoted as instrument-playing evidence. Exact Oklahoma origin, duplicate relationships, and republication rights require separate review. Per-page local hashes are recorded in the Markdown record.