Basie's output during the fifties and the early sixties was staggering, and most of his best albums from that period remain in print, including April in Paris (Verve 2641), Basie (popularly known as ...

Celebrating its 89th anniversary year, the legendary Count Basie Orchestra made a stop at The Jazz Kitchen to the delight of audiences at two packed shows on June 21, 2024. For those of us who love ...

Join in May as the Frank Derrick Big Band performs a personal tribute to Count Basie while celebrating specifically the cast of drummers who performed with the renowned musician, many of them known to ...

Tallahassee’s Scotty Barnhart, professor of jazz trumpet at Florida State University, melds musical styles with Friday’s release of his newest and most astonishing album, “The Count Basie Orchestra ...

Count Basie defied F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous pronouncement about there being “no second acts in American lives.” Like many big band leaders, he struggled after the war years. But unlike most, he ...

Editor’s Note: This is the 578th in a series of articles recalling vintage Huntington people and places. One of jazz music’s all-time greats, bandleader-pianist Count Basie was a primary shaper of the ...

Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast young dancers with layers of rhythm, but creative composers seeking a larger canvas have kept the form alive. Hear 12 big selections. By Giovanni ...

Through the dim and smoky atmosphere of the Manhattan jazz den called Birdland came some old and familiar piano tones. The holiday crowd quieted and the music took over, its tones pure and glassy, its ...

Frank Wess, who helped popularize the flute as a jazz instrument in the 1950s and ’60s with the Count Basie Orchestra, where he was also a standout saxophone soloist, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.

The band and singer were honored at the Basie Center on Friday, joining Jon Bon Jovi and William "Count" Basie as Walk of Fame inductees.

The Smithereens and Darlene Love were inducted into the Count Basie Center for the Arts' Walk of Fame during their ...