It’s been nearly three decades since the late William “Count” Basie made his final Twin Cities appearance at the gone-but-not-forgotten Prom Center ballroom in St. Paul. But, in the tradition of ...

Trombonist, Bill Hughes, bandleader and director of the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, has announced his retirement on September 12, 2010. Hired by William “Count" Basie himself, Hughes first joined ...

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 ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — If you are a fan of great jazz music, then the Fox Theater has just the event for you! The Count Basie Orchestra is coming to Bakersfield this weekend. Count Basie was one of the ...

Attend a performance by the Count Basie Orchestra, and you’ll leave with a smile on your face. “The audience can expect to hear 80 years of music that will leave them feeling good,” says Scotty ...

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 ...

Anthology, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, December 21-23. 619-595-0300. $21 to $63. The trick of the jazz big-band ensemble is to sound as one, such that the individual instruments are indistinguishable.