The Basie Awards are back on stage. The annual awards ceremony, which honors the best of Monmouth County high school theater, will return in-person on Wednesday, May 25, at the Count Basie Center for ...

The first wave concerts at the new ParkStage outdoor concert at the East Freehold Park Fairgrounds in Freehold Township have ...

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 ...

From 1935 until 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 ...

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 ...

If some of the old color and steam were absent, there was still reason to rejoice as the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, led by Wynton Marsalis, celebrated the centennial year of the kid from Red Bank.

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 jazz ...