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 on Dec. 19.

The Count Basie Center for the Arts will host a summer concert series at the East Freehold Park Fairgrounds in 2026. The series aims to boost the local economy and celebrate the Count Basie Center's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: The worst part of doing the NPR Basic Jazz Record Library is having to fade out music like that. Hi, I'm Murray Horwitz, and that's one of the greatest ...

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 ...