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 ...

Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Jay McShann, Mary Lou Williams & Bennie Moten article by Joe Dimino, published on March 1, 2026 at All About Jazz. Find more Radio & Podcasts articles ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...