Heard any good jokes lately? On Saturday night, the Count Basie Center for the Arts in downtown Red Bank, as part of its Centennial Celebration, hosted “The Roast of New Jersey,” a lovingly vicious ...

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 ...

Count Basie fans tend to focus on his hard-driving “Super Chief" bands of the 1940s and his stylistic “New Testament" bands of the 1950s. And rightly so. But often overlooked is Basie's output during ...

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 ...

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 ...

Celebrating jazz has been an integral part of the Count Basie Center for the Arts since 1984, when the space -- formerly the Monmouth Arts Center and the Carlton Theater -- was renamed for native son ...

The Count Basie Center for the Arts celebrated its 100th anniversary, and two of New Jersey’s most iconic musicians were honored with the first-ever inductions into the Center’s new Walk of Fame. This ...

If some of the old color and steam were absent, there was still reason to rejoice as the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, led by Wynton Marsalis, celebrated the centennial year of the kid from Red Bank.

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 ...