It was 1982 and Carmen Bradford was waiting backstage, where she and the Austin-based band Minor Miracle were opening for the Count Basie Orchestra, when she saw Basie himself, sitting in the electric ...

Jazz singer Deborah Silver will perform one-night only at The Loft at City Winery NYC on Tuesday, August 13th at 7:30pm along with her quartet of world-class musicians, performing select songs from ...

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

She could make an album with just a trio, but wouldn’t it be more fun to have the entire Count Basie Orchestra? On top of that, ‘Basie Rocks’ features multiple marquee-name guest stars.

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

The history of the Count Basie orchestra is generally divided into two broad periods—the Old Testament band, which lasted from 1935 to 1950, and the New Testament band, which lasted from 1952 until ...

Basie Rocks! A great idea? One best left on the cutting-room floor? Or perhaps a little of both? There are reasonable arguments to be made on all sides of the equation. On the one hand, this is the ...