The legendary Count Basie Orchestra has a new album of holiday music. It features new takes on some old hits. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with lead trumpeter Scott Barnhart about "A Very Swingin ...

William "Count" Basie founded the group after a career as a pianist in Kansas City. Aside from a brief hiatus between 1948-1952, Basie himself remained leader of the group until his death in 1984.

The Count Basie Orchestra appeared on Alan Freed's “Camel Rock 'N' Roll Dance Party” radio show in the 1950s, and the Basie Orchestra covered Beatles songs on two albums in the '60s.

Jane Monheit has released nine albums since her 2001 debut and earned multiple Grammy Award nominations. She’s also collaborated with such jazz greats as pianist Tommy Flanagan, trumpeter ...

Scotty Barnhart, the sixth conductor of the orchestra since Basie's death, played with his "ghost" band for 20 years as a trumpeter. He never met Basie, but he first heard him at age 9 and he saw ...

It was 1982 and Carmen Bradford was waiting backstage, where she and the Austin-based band Minor Miracle were opening for the Count Basie Orchestra, when she saw Basie himself, sitting ...

A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas! (Concord Records) Founded in Kansas City in 1935, the Count Basie Orchestra celebrates its 80th anniversary with the release of its first Christmas album.

PITTSFIELD — It’s easy to get lost in the instrumentation of the Count Basie Orchestra — the outfit has maintained a roster of up to 18 members for the past nine decades. But the key to the jazz ...

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 ...

That's what we do." Count Basie Orchestra at Kansas City Music Hall, 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, 301 W 13th Street, Kansas City, Missouri, 64105. The event is sponsored by Creative City KC.

In 1935, William Basie, a pianist from Red Bank, N.J., and adopted son of Kansas City, Mo., put together a band that was soon to be as famous for its amazing horn soloists as it was for its unique ...

The legendary Count Basie Orchestra, directed by Scotty Barnhart with guest vocalist Carmen Bradford, will perform for free at 8 p.m. on Feb. 9 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater as a gift to the ...