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 ...

“Classic Vanguard Small Group Swing Sessions ... The 1956 “A Night at Count Basie’s” features the Count as host and guest pianist, backing his current band vocalist, the formidable ...

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

Few jazz bands have been more distinctive than Duke Ellington’s, or have swung harder than Count Basie’s ... As for the Basie band, its sense of swing issued from Basie’s understated ...

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 ...

Moten Swing; Ebony Rhapsody; Darn That Dream; Take It, Pres; Baby, Don't Tell On Me; I Got Rhythm; (At The Cafe Society Uptown) 9:20 Special; Elmer's Tune; Jumpin' At The Woodside. Jones-Smith, ...

The Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank has been featured in several major movies and TV projects in the past few years, and two recent biggies have a music connection: “Road Diary: Bruce ...