Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For two decades, the Basie Awards have honored the best and brightest of high school theater in Monmouth County, and this year's ...

Count Basie fans tend to focus on his hard-driving “Super Chief" bands of the 1940s and his stylistic “New Testament" bands of the 1950s. And rightly so. But often overlooked is Basie's output during ...

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.

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 ...

The Count Basie Center for the Arts celebrated its 100th anniversary, and two of New Jersey’s most iconic musicians were honored with the first-ever inductions into the Center’s new Walk of Fame. This ...

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 ...

This story originally appeared in the Asbury Park Press on Nov 18, 1995. It was a wild Bruce chase. Approximately 600 people lined up outside the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank yesterday to obtain ...

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 seton May 5 included Kiss classics, deep tracks and covers of Van Halen and Beatles songs.