Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Basie Awards are back on stage. The annual awards ceremony, which honors the best of Monmouth County high school theater, will ...

The Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank just announced the 2026 nominees from among 53 high school productions that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Basie is from Red Bank and his orchestra celebrated its 85th anniversary. T. Thomas Howard Foundation Vice President Gilda Rogers says that Basie’s music is full of love. “You can hear it in his music ...

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 ...

From 1935 until his death in 1984, pianist and bandleader Count Basie led one of the most important jazz institutions of the 20th century, in the process forging a distinctive sound that changed the ...

Ray Charles and Count Basie: it would have been a killer combination, an obvious collaboration between two giants of music. They shared bills many times and Charles recorded his 1960 album Genius + ...

From 1935 to his death in 1984, pianist and bandleader Count Basie led one of the most important jazz institutions of the 20th century, in the process forging a distinctive sound that changed the jazz ...