Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have announced all jazz programming ...

Symphony Center rarely swings as hard as it did over the weekend, when two hard-charging bands got down to the fundamentals of jazz improvisation. And though neither the Joey DeFrancesco Trio nor the ...

Basie's output during the fifties and the early sixties was staggering, and most of his best albums from that period remain in print, including April in Paris (Verve 2641), Basie (popularly known as ...

In 1971, Count Basie toured Europe twice, once with just the band and again with the band plus Ella Fitzgerald and the Tommy Flanagan Trio. Yesterday, I came across four clips from these tours, ...

Until Friday night, pianist Marcus Roberts and the Count Basie Orchestra never had performed together. But you wouldn’t have known it by the premiere of their collaboration at Symphony Center, which ...

Starting with an open jam session and ending with a jazz brunch, the events include the popular Jazz Crawl, the jazz prodigy concert, and headline concerts featuring the Count Basie Orchestra and ...

The Count Basie Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 6 and the Kenny Werner Trio will perform with The One O’clock Lab Band at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28. Both concerts will take place in the Winspear ...

ELKHART — The Elkhart Jazz Festival opens June 20 and continues through June 23 at various locations throughout downtown Elkhart. This year’s headliners are Keb’ Mo’ at 8 p.m. June 21 and The ...

He performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie and the Oscar Peterson Trio and appeared in dozens of films and TV shows. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Bill Henderson, a well-respected jazz vocalist and ...

In celebration of William "Count" Basie's centennial, Blue Note Records is releasing a pair of two-disc sets. By Billboard Staff In celebration of William “Count” Basie’s centennial, Blue Note Records ...