Count Basie News

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.

I wish I could play like Art Tatum's right hand. Charlie Parker On Art Tatum's 100th birthday last Tuesday, October 13, Rene, an elephant at the Toledo, Ohio Zoo, painted a piano in honor of the city's native son.

Aldergrovea s renowned musician Doug Makela leads The Other Big Band into a new collection of jazz classics he has transcribed for the upcoming Harvest Ball, hosted by the Fat City Swing club in Langley on Oct.

The Westminster College Jazz Ensemble will present a concert Saturday, Oct. 24 , at 7:30 p.m. in the Berlin Lounge of the McKelvey Campus Center.

Count Basie died 25 years ago but his orchestra lives on, as demonstrated by this new album, which features a range of special guest stars.

Legendary trombonist Don Doane, who has played with Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Count Basie and Duke Ellington, takes the stage for Harvestfest today.

Singer Amanda Carr will perform tonight at Scullers Jazz Club in Allston. "Common Thread,'' the new CD recorded by Amanda Carr and the Kenny Hadley Big Band, features two artists who have taken highly individual paths to their shared love for big band music.

Count Basie knew how to make toes tap -- in fact he insisted upon it when leading any of his stellar bands over his long career -- and the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra plans the same for your feet.A former Basie band drummer, Butch Miles, and Winnipeg singer Gary Grosvenor will join the WJO in The Best of Basie for two shows Sunday.

Monday, October 12, 2009, 11:34am POTSDAM -- The Quantico Marine Corps Jazz Ensemble performs a free concert on at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.

Arnold's interest in Jazz began at age nine, after buying a Buddy DeFranco 45rpm record and attending a George Shearing performance.

It had been a long road for Claude "Fiddler" Williams when I met him at Austin's Indigo's Restaurant and Bar in 1983.