Jazz musicians frequently cover popular songs, but few do it quite like vocalist Deborah Silver. With Basie Rocks!, Silver teams up with the iconic Count Basie Orchestra for a genre-crossing ...

How’s this for some classic Jersey cool? William “Count” Basie, the iconic, Red Bank-born bandleader and composer is celebrated in grand fashion with “Late Night Basie,” a new tribute album arriving ...

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

Jon Bon Jovi is steppin' out — to the Count Basie Center of the Arts' Walk of Fame. The legendary Jersey rocker and the late William “Count” Basie will be honored at Basie Center’s Walk of Fame ...

Legendary artists Darlene Love and The Smithereens inducted to the Count Basie Center for the Arts Walk of Fame.

Editor’s Note: This is the 578th in a series of articles recalling vintage Huntington people and places. One of jazz music’s all-time greats, bandleader-pianist Count Basie was a primary shaper of the ...

THE VIRUS. WELL, TODAY MARKS INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY, A GLOBAL CELEBRATION OF ART FORM THAT HAS SHAPED CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD, AND MANY CONTRIBUTE ITS ROOTS THROUGH RIGHT HERE IN KANSAS CITY. THE ...

The Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra – the Count Basie Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra – which one is superior? A more contemporary example would be the fractious ...