Count Basie News

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.

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.