The Smithereens and Darlene Love were inducted into the Count Basie Center for the Arts' Walk of Fame during their holiday-themed concerts ...

Bill Basie studied music with his mother as a child and played piano in early childhood. He picked up the basics of early ragtime from some of the great Harlem pianists and studied organ informally ...

Robert Plant with Saving Grace and Suzi Dian have announced an April 6 show at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red ...

RED BANK - Students stepped onstage Wednesday night to the opening chords of "Magic To Do" from "Pippin," and just like that, the Basie Awards were back. The annual awards, honoring excellence and ...

In 1935, pianist William "Count" Basie (born August 21, 1904), a fixture on the Kansas City jazz scene since the late 1920s, organized his own rocking, riffing, blues-based big band. The following ...

Darlene Love and The Smithereens will be inducted into the Walk of Fame during their shows at the Basie Center for the Arts ...

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 ...

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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 ...