The Center for the Arts is pleased to present the Count Basie Orchestra with Special Guest Gunhild Carling in the Marisa Funk Theater on July 13, 2024. In the history of jazz music, there is only one ...

Count Basie usually brings to mind a legendary rhythm section, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, and such singers as Jimmy Rushing and Billie Holiday. But after World War II, long after his most famous ...

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.

Directed by Scotty Barnhart, featuring Lizz WrightAlong with the orchestra he formed in 1935, William James Count Basie re-wrote the history of jazz with 18 Grammy Awards, appearances for kings and ...

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, ...

Scotty Barnhart, then a seventeen-year-old aspiring trumpet player, had just seen Count Basie and his orchestra perform at Atlanta’s Fox Theater. Barnhart was waiting across the street for his parents ...

The nonprofit Rona Barrett Foundation, founded by TV entertainment news pioneer Rona Barrett, will present the legendary Count Basie Orchestra in a benefit jazz concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 8, at ...

What has 38 legs, 14 horns, swings like crazy, specializes in jumping at 1 o'clock and is coming to Fairfax? The Count Basie Orchestra, natch. Yes, the band arrives at the eclectic music club 19 ...

St. Augustine — The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra will perform tonight, Friday, February 18, at St. Augustine’s Fort Mose Historic State Park. The St. Augustine Amphitheatre has joined with Fort ...

There’s a good reason for it, too, because it’s his job. Barnhart spent 20 years as a soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra before being tapped as the big band’s director. On Friday, Oct. 11 when 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 ...

Trombonist, Bill Hughes, bandleader and director of the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, has announced his retirement on September 12, 2010. Hired by William “Count" Basie himself, Hughes first joined ...