Josh Groban with special guest Jennifer Hudson will headline the Count Basie Center for the Arts' Centennial Gala.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Happy rock 'n' roll birthday to the late, great Count Basie. Basie, born Aug. 21. 1904, in Red Bank, is one of music's most ...

Actor and musician Little Steven Van Zandt will be inducted Saturday, Oct. 17, onto the Count Basie Center for the Arts Walk ...

Count Basie fans tend to focus on his hard-driving “Super Chief" bands of the 1940s and his stylistic “New Testament" bands of the 1950s. And rightly so. But often overlooked is Basie's output during ...

For traveling musicians, there are two versions of life on the road. Jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong gave their own sentimentalized retelling of their nomadic existence ...

A new sampler features live cuts of Count Basie's band in New York from 1938 to 1940. Jazz Critic Kevin Whitehead says Jumpin' at the Woodside is full of "pretty terrific" music. This is FRESH AIR.

This past August marked the 100th anniversary of Count Basie's birth and in recognition of that august event, reissued are some of the big band master's finest sides from the late '50s and early '60s.

The Count Basie Orchestra, with Basie on piano, came roaring out of Kansas City during the Great Depression. It's tempting to say that they're back for the current one, but that ignores decades in ...

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 ...