Forecasting the paths that big-band jazz might travel is difficult now that another of its pacesetters has reached the end of his journey. In symbolic terms, the loss of Count Basie, who died last ...

The jazz world puts all its heroes in “bags ... Duke Ellington because he is a kind of president emeritus, and Count Basie because he so perfectly swings. Last week, in a wild and woolly ...

(H); Jazz Me Blues (H); Exactly Like You (H); What's Your Number? (R); What's Your Number? (R); Five O'Clock Whistle (S); Five O'Clock Whistle (S); Broadway (S). (A) Carl "Tatti" Smith; Lester Young; ...