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

The band and singer were honored at the Basie Center on Friday, joining Jon Bon Jovi and William "Count" Basie as Walk of ...

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

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

Kelly Rowland reconnected with her father after 30 years and uncovered a powerful family legacy in music. Watch her story ...

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 ...

The Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank has been featured in several major movies and TV projects in the past few ...

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 ...

Florida State jazz professor and trumpet player Scotty Barnhart is one of the world’s leading experts when it comes to legendary pianist-songwriter-bandleader Count Basie (1904-1984). There’s a good ...

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 ...

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 ...