("Count Basie! Where'd you park the ship, Count?" an old Kansas City crony asks him in the film The Last of the Blue Devils.) To say that big bands were essentially the domain of composers and ...

Deborah Silver will perform select songs from 'Basie Rocks!' Tuesday, Aug. 13, at the Loft at City Winery in New York City.

Basie soon joined the band after sitting in with them that night. After Page's Blue Devils broke up Count Basie and some of the other band members integrated into the Bennie Moten band. He remained ...