Count Basie News

A day after his release from prison, Lebrew Jones, a man who spent 22 years behind bars for a murder that he, the victim's mother and a growing number of experts insist he didn't commit, accompanied Christine Young, the former Times Herald-Record reporter responsible for Lebrew's early parole, to her son's drum concert at Alto Music in Middletown.

RENOWNED US jazz pianist Judy Carmichael makes a rare Westcountry appearance next week with a lunchtime concert at Plymouth City Museum and Gallery of Art as part of the 17th International Concert Series, organised by Jeanie Moore.

Bob Brookmeyer is a legendary top-valve trombone musician and A-list jazz arranger.

Last month, I inaugurated a featured called "Dynamic Duos." The concept is simple enough: Inveterate jazz fans know YouTube can be a fantastic resource for seeing/hearing your favorite artists.

Imagine more than 30 of arguably the greatest jazz musicians of all time coming together on one record with one goal.

If you weren't at the Bob Mintzer/Crescent Super Band concert, you missed a show.

Wolfgang's Vault , longtime home of the rarest archive of live music recordings for free streaming and for download, has announced the addition of the Newport Jazz collection and posted Count Basie and His Orchestra, the first release among them.

The Down East FolkArts Society Series will present performances by the band Coyote on Friday in New Bern, and on Saturday in Beaufort.

This is truly a Friday Night Jazz: Via the NYT , we learn that Wolfgang's Vault has a substantial collection of pristine audio recording from the Newport Jazz Festival.

Duke Ellington's performance at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival revitalized the bandleader's career.

Shasta College presents the Shasta College Community Jazz Big Band in Concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov.

Jazz powerhouse Byron Stripling has done it all, musically speaking. Stripling, onstage at the Xavier Masters of Swing Series concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

On Nov. 17, an icon of jazz music will take to the stage at the Albany Municipal Auditorium.

When the writer Annie Dillard asked a painter she knew how he came to be a painter, he answered, "I liked the smell of the paint." Maybe it's as simple as that, what we become.

The UConn Jazz Lab Band took to the stage at von der Mehden Recital Hall Monday night to showcase their talents with some energetic music.

Rege Behe can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7990. Sugar Ray Robinson was born in Detroit and died near Los Angeles.

The Mystic Order of the Jazz Obsessed plans to party with the Count at its October Jazz Jambalaya session on Monday.

LIFE for Bill Hughes, the current bandleader of big band jazz institution Count Basie Orchestra, would have taken a much different turn had he not joined the group in 1953.

In the late '30s, some musicians who worked for Count Basie borrowed the name of Elmer Snowden's band that had played more than a decade earlier and recorded some of the best small ensemble jazz of the '30s and '40s. Basie himself revived the name in his later years.

The title was right on target. And doubtless it was the jazz-tinged musical menu of Auckland Chamber Orchestra's ACO in Blue concert that drew a larger-than-usual audience to the concert chamber.