Scotty Barnhart, then a seventeen-year-old aspiring trumpet player, had just seen Count Basie and his orchestra perform at Atlanta’s Fox Theater. Barnhart was waiting across the street for his parents ...

Jazz trumpet virtuoso Scotty Barnhart’s fruitful career has been blessed in many ways. He was baptized by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. and christened by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and ...

Known for his wide and wild orchestral arrangements, William "Count" Basie also demonstrates a calmer, more concentrated attitude on this first volume of GRP’s new "Swingsation" series (which also ...

Everybody was there—Roy Eldridge and Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie and Dave Brubeck, Erroll Garner and Ella Fitzgerald and a gaggle of other big-name jazz artists—as the fourth Newport (R.I.) Jazz ...

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 ...

FLINT, MI -- The lead trumpeter for the Count Basie Big Band, Mike Williams, will perform with the Mott Community College Jazz Ensemble Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 7 p.m. in the Mott Memorial Building ...

It was billed as a “Battle Royale,” but the matchup between the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Count Basie Orchestra on Saturday night turned out to be more love fest than cutting contest.

William 'Count' Basie started The Count Basie Orchestra in 1935, in Kansas City, Missouri. Within a year, America was listening in on popular radio shows throughout the country to hear what would ...

Any bandleader who had Snooky Young in his band could relax, knowing that he'd filled the most difficult role in the band with the best that there was. Young spent four decades leading the trumpet ...

This past August marked the 100th anniversary of Count Basie's birth and in recognition of that august event, reissued are some of the big band master's finest sides from the late '50s and early '60s.