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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An agreement with Count Basie's trust will allow Count Basie Theatre to use the musician's name for the next century. Basie was born in Red Bank and played a 1979 show at the theater that now ...

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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 ...

Count Basie defined the jazz meaning of swing. His band could get more bounce from a line that any other. And though his soloists were never of highest dazzle, they always fit the program.

“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 ...

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 ...