This is an updated version of a story that originally ran in 2017. Fellow New Jersey music diehards, this is it — the ultimate Garden State music bucket list: 51 Jersey albums that wholly define our ...

The Count himself performs on two sessions ... Rhythm Section,” with guitarist Freddie Green and bassist Walter Page, in addition to Basie and Jones. Their ensemble work is as remarkable as ...

Count Basie plays organ and piano, and the rhythm section of Eddie Jones on bass and Sonny Payne drive the whole album with restrained intensity. Tip of the hat to Freddie Green, the man who ...

Grammy-winning Jazz musician John Clayton was being honored Lincoln Center for his music. At the same time, he learned he ...

Washington has a strong interest in jazz history; he's written liner notes for and/or helped prepare classic jazz re-releases by Art Blakey and Count Basie, among others ... alto saxophonist Vincent ...

The jazz world puts all its heroes in “bags”—tight little schools of artistic similarity that confine each jazzman to his own musical neighborhood: Funk, Freedom, Groove, Bop, Soul.

Tickets are $16 for adults; $10 for seniors, students and military service members, and children 12 and younger; and free for ...

This week, catch concerts with Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ & Blood Moon Orchestra, Jerry's Middle Finger and jazz drummer Jeff ...

the Count Basie Orchestra, Delfeayo Marsalis, Joel Ross, Aaron Parks, Gerald Clayton, Gretchen Parlato, Lalah Hathaway, Solange Knowles, Bob Dylan, and Wynton Marsalis to name just a few. It was also ...

Founding members Reid Anderson on bass and Dave King on drums join Ben ... Carmen Bradford was discovered at 22 by Count Basie and has been delighting audiences ever since. She will be joined ...