On March 19, 1939, Count Basie & His Orchestra entered a Chicago recording studio and cut one of their most noted sessions.

Many might think of jazz fusion as simply being jazz music's rockier mutated sibling, but these five albums prove that ...

"A Tribute to Count Basie" will kick off Angelo State ... 82 Gillis St. It will feature the ASU Big Band's celebration of one of the most influential bandleaders in jazz history, including an ...

Gabel said he played at Mechanics Hall when he was a freshman in high school and returned there in 2010 for the Hall's Brown ...

Count Basie "Live"; Basie Power; The Meetin'; Blues In Hoss's Flat; Why Not; Good Time Blues; Festival Blues; Splanky; The More I See You; I Needs To Be Bee'd With; Bookie Blues; All Of Me; Shiny ...

“If you look at his whole career—from him having a big band to Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, to even his TV stuff in the seventies; he knows he has the right amount of taste and he inserts wh ...

Disc 1-(Jones-Smith, Inc.) Shoe Shine Boy; Evenin'; Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong); Oh, Lady Be Good; (Basie's Bad Boys) I Ain't Got Nobody; Goin' To Chicago; Live And Love Tonight; Love Me Or Leave ...

Musicians who had left the South during the Great Depression, including Big Bill Broonzy ... for his skills as a bottleneck guitarist Count Basie’s band, influenced by the New Orleans jazz ...