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 ...

Hi, I'm Murray Horwitz, and that's one of the greatest ensembles in all of jazz — The Count Basie Orchestra of the 1950s. It accounts for half of the title of our latest entry into the NPR Basic ...

And in smoky rooms filled with good times, Basie was honing his craft. He would become "Count" Basie as part of his ascent to legend. You may recognize the name as a theater, but Count Basie was a ...

In 1935, pianist William "Count" Basie (born August 21, 1904), a fixture on the Kansas City jazz scene since the late 1920s, organized his own rocking, riffing, blues-based big band. The following ...

Basie soon joined the band after sitting in with them that night. After Page's Blue Devils broke up Count Basie and some of the other band members integrated into the Bennie Moten band. He remained ...

For traveling musicians, there are two versions of life on the road. Jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong gave their own sentimentalized retelling of their nomadic existence ...

The Basie Awards are back on stage. The annual awards ceremony, which honors the best of Monmouth County high school theater, will return in-person on Wednesday, May 25, at the Count Basie Center ...

One of jazz music’s all-time greats, bandleader-pianist Count Basie was a primary shaper of the big-band sound that characterized mid-20th Century popular music. In 1958, he became the first ...

“The Count Basie Center’s performing arts school is now the Turner Academy of the Arts — named in Fran and Paul’s honor,” Philipson said. “Recognizing the Turners for their selfless ...

I know Quincy Jones bridged the history of music, from Count Basie to Michael Jackson to Snoop Dogg. That he was the original ...