The 2026 Basie Awards rolled out the red carpet for the best of Monmouth County high theater on May 19 at the historic Red ...

Tony Award winners Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara will perform with the Count Basie Orchestra at the Count Basie Center for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Basie Awards are back on stage. The annual awards ceremony, which honors the best of Monmouth County high school theater, will ...

Count Basie Center for the Arts will host a weekend of events to commemorate the birth of its namesake, William "Count" Basie. See details: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. RED BANK - Adriana Medina-Gomez has been thinking about what diversity and inclusion, in all their complexity, would actually look ...

Recorded in Budapest, this previously unissued 1970 performance proves that nobody could make feeling the blues swing good and hard like Count Basie. Especially when fronting a typically first-rate ...

From 1935 until his death in 1984, pianist and bandleader Count Basie led one of the most important jazz institutions of the 20th century, in the process forging a distinctive sound that changed the ...

Count Basie's band was the epitome of swing and his pioneering sound can still be heard in jazz orchestras all over the world. Basie, who was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, on August 21 1904, died 30 ...

Is there any sound more timeless in all of jazz than that of the Basie Orchestra? The title of this new Pablo release might be a perfect description of the essence of the Basie band—except one might ...