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

Darlene Love and The Smithereens will be inducted into the Walk of Fame during their shows at the Basie Center for the Arts on Dec. 19.

For two decades, the Basie Awards have honored the best and brightest of high school theater in Monmouth County, and this year's ceremony was no exception. The 20th annual Basie Awards were held May ...

Bill Basie studied music with his mother as a child and played piano in early childhood. He picked up the basics of early ragtime from some of the great Harlem pianists and studied organ informally ...

Florida State jazz professor and trumpet player Scotty Barnhart is one of the world’s leading experts when it comes to legendary pianist-songwriter-bandleader Count Basie (1904-1984). There’s a good ...

MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: The worst part of doing the NPR Basic Jazz Record Library is having to fade out music like that. Hi, I'm Murray Horwitz, and that's one of the greatest ...

The Count Basie Center for the Arts will host a summer concert series at the East Freehold Park Fairgrounds in 2026. The series aims to boost the local economy and celebrate the Count Basie Center's ...

The history of the Count Basie orchestra is generally divided into two broad periods—the Old Testament band, which lasted from 1935 to 1950, and the New Testament band, which lasted from 1952 until ...

It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to clue us in on who is the Queen of Jazz. It’s Ella Fitzgerald, my dear Watson, Lady Ella. William Basie began to boogie-woogie piano keys at a Harlem club catering to ...

Count Basie's band was the epitome of swing and his pioneering sound can still be heard in jazz orchestras all over the world. Basie, who was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, on August 21 1904, died 30 ...

Forecasting the paths that big-band jazz might travel is difficult now that another of its pacesetters has reached the end of his journey. In symbolic terms, the loss of Count Basie, who died last ...