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 ...

Deborah Silver will perform select songs from 'Basie Rocks!' Tuesday, Aug. 13, at the Loft at City Winery in New York City.

An errant Google search led South Philly-raised vocalist Brandon Tomasello to these gems that lay hidden in the Library of Congress ...

Count Basie "Live"; Basie Power; The Meetin'; Blues In Hoss's Flat; Why Not; Good Time Blues; Festival Blues; Splanky; The More I See You; I Needs To Be Bee'd With; Bookie Blues; All Of Me; Shiny ...

Billy Wolfe, director of the Big Band at the university, led the ensemble for the second half of the night, beginning with ...

In addition to the music of the big band era made famous by Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich, and others, the band plays tunes from the 20s and 30s, as well jazz, funk and ...

Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Louie Armstrong, Sergio Mendez, Oscar Peterson, Milton Nascimento; how he loved the sound and the speed of Ed Thigpen’s brushes on the snare. “I remember feeling the ...

The private passions and ambitions that inspired Count Basie, the bandleader and pianist who brought the blues to the big band podium, and the first black musician to win a Grammy Award.

Roots of Light of Day go back to a 1998 40th birthday party for artist manager Bob Benjamin, who had just been diagnosed with Parkinson's.

Musicians who had left the South during the Great Depression, including Big Bill Broonzy ... for his skills as a bottleneck guitarist Count Basie’s band, influenced by the New Orleans jazz ...