Tallahassee's Scotty Barnhart got his moment in the spotlight at Sunday's 66th Grammy Awards. Looking relaxed, confident, and mightily pleased, renowned jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, educator, ...

Get ready for deep swing and thunderous horns, Motor City: The legendary Count Basie Orchestra will play Detroit’s Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre on Wednesday, Aug. 13, along with pianist David Benoit.

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 ...

Before Will Matthews was a Grammy Award-winning guitarist, traveling the globe with the internationally renowned Count Basie Orchestra, he was a young boy growing up on Kansas City’s East Side, ...

On Wednesday, April 30, the Count Basie Orchestra will celebrate 90 years swinging at the Kansas City Music Hall. On Wednesday, April 30, the Count Basie Orchestra will celebrate 90 years swinging at ...

The late Ray Charles never recorded with the Count Basie Orchestra. But a new album features Charles singing "Let the Good Times Roll" with Count Basie's band. The piece, one of 12 on the album Ray ...

Two internationally renowned jazz ensembles, The Count Basie Orchestra and the Maria Schneider Orchestra, will head to campus soon to perform at the Elmhurst University Jazz Festival, one of the ...

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 ...

Jazz musicians frequently cover popular songs, but few do it quite like vocalist Deborah Silver. With Basie Rocks!, Silver teams up with the iconic Count Basie Orchestra for a genre-crossing ...

The sole Beatles song on Deborah Silver’s new album, “Basie Rocks,” is “A Hard Day’s Night.” If I had my druthers, it would have been “Hey Jude,” because Ms. Silver’s professional motto would seem to ...

The jazz world puts all its heroes in “bags”—tight little schools of artistic similarity that confine each jazzman to his own musical neighborhood: Funk, Freedom, Groove, Bop, Soul. Only three great ...