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 ...

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

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 ...

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 Minniweather; see everything on stage go wrong in the farce "Noises Off;" catch ...

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 ...

The star-studded Montreux ’75 lineup included Ella Fitzgerald, the Count Basie Orchestra ... guitarist/backing singer Leo Nocentelli, bassist/backing singer George Porter, Jr., drummer/singer ...

Count Basie bassist Cleveland Eaton, the Lawrence Welk Orchestra, and many, many others. He is a pianist, vocalist and accomplished guitarist, arranger, composer, conductor, and music producer. He has ...