The Count Basie Orchestra will perform in Wilmington as part of the concert lineup at the University of North Carolina ...

The Grammy-winning Count Basie Orchestra is bringing its signature big band jazz sound to Wilmington next month.

No, the Count isn't literally back... in fact, he's never really been away, as the Count Basie Orchestra has kept rolling along under a series of leaders since Basie's death in April 1984. This latest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Happy rock 'n' roll birthday to the late, great Count Basie. Basie, born Aug. 21. 1904, in Red Bank, is one of music's most ...

Count Basie fans tend to focus on his hard-driving “Super Chief" bands of the 1940s and his stylistic “New Testament" bands of the 1950s. And rightly so. But often overlooked is Basie's output during ...

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 ...

William James Basie was born on August 21, 1904, in New Jersey. Count Basie was an American jazz musician and one of the great bandleaders. Basie started learning the piano with his mother. Later, he ...

The Count Basie Orchestra, with Basie on piano, came roaring out of Kansas City during the Great Depression. It's tempting to say that they're back for the current one, but that ignores decades in ...

This revealing biography, told in Count Basie’s own words, uncovers for the first time the private passions and ambitions that inspired the world-famous bandleader and pianist. Show more This ...