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 ...

Starting with an open jam session and ending with a jazz brunch, the events include the popular Jazz Crawl, the jazz prodigy concert, and headline concerts featuring the Count Basie Orchestra and ...

From 1935 to his death in 1984, pianist and bandleader Count Basie led one of the most important jazz institutions of the 20th century, in the process forging a distinctive sound that changed the jazz ...

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 ...

An Evening of Jazz— A Tribute to the Count Basie Orchestra” on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Jack H. Miller Center for ...

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 ...

Conventional wisdom among Count Basie experts is that Basie’s 1937-1941 outfit was nonpareil. With Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Harry Edison, Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells, Earle Warren and the ...

Frank Wess, who helped anchor the saxophone section of the Count Basie Orchestra in the 1950s and ’60s and who pioneered the use of the flute in jazz during a career that spanned more than 70 years, ...

Frank Foster, the saxophonist and composer best known for his 1953-64 tenure with the Count Basie Orchestra, died yesterday, July 26, in Chesapeake, Va. The cause of death was kidney failure. Foster, ...

Today, I spent a luxurious day enjoying art at the Nezu Museum, stopping by a lovely tea shop, and then listening to Count Basie at Blue Note. Today, I spent a luxurious day enjoy ...

The German language has picked up the word “Sampler” and misuses it to refer to any anthology, a point missed by the translator of Thomas Fitterling’s decent book Thelonious Monk. This CD is, however, ...

NEW YORK and PHOENIX, April 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As the jazz world observes Jazz Appreciation Month, former Count Basie Orchestra vocalist Dennis Rowland is releasing a new memoir reflecting on the ...