The Count Basie Orchestra News

Valley jazz singer Dennis Rowland, a Herberger Theater Center Hall of Fame inductee, headlines the theater's annual cabaret fundraiser Friday.

Fall Wine & Jazz performance by Dennis Rowland takes place November 08, 2009 from 1pm to 4pm Scottsdale' s el Pedregal.

The refreshing thing about Jamie Cullum is that he's a jazz -rooted player who really loves pop, rather than a jazzer who wears pop's clothes for the bank manager's benefit.

The College of Lake County jazz ensemble will present a guest artist concert on Nov.

Sound the trumpets, introduce the flute, improvise on the saxophone and make the trombone sing with the piano because SIUE's radio station, WSIE, will keep its longtime jazz format, but that's not all the jazz.

Not many people are even aware of it: The guitarist with the Count Basie Orchestra is a lifelong resident of Kansas City.

What makes the Cape May Jazz Festival so interesting? Well, for one, there are those little yellow school buses you can catch to get to a venue at the very end of Beach Drive.

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.

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.

When Butch Miles drives the band, hang on. The former drummer for the Count Basie Orchestra swings right, swings left, but mainly swings hard as he drives a big band through the charts made popular over decades by one of the best bands in the history of jazz.

Bassist and Arkansas native James Leary, touring with the Count Basie Orchestra, will perform with pianist Tom Cox and drummer Dave Rogers at 8 p.m. Monday for Monday Jazz at The Afterthought, 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock.

Local jazz singer Dennis Rowland has a bit of a cough. And no one could blame the Valley legend, who just returned from Russia following a tour of Asia and Europe.

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

THERE'S nothing better than live music for fan Chris Thornton, who can proudly boast of having seen acts that music fans half his age have probably never even heard of.

October 4, 2009 from WDUQ - Does music you hear in the morning set the tone for your day? Would you rather have music create a mood for you, or just match the mood you're already in? Does an instrumental number move you, or would you rather have a tune suitable for singing along? Below are five songs to get you into a morning groove.

If the rhythm section of Count Basie 's Old Testament big band of the '30s-40s is remembered as the "All-American Rhythm Section," then the New Testament big band of the later '50s-60s deserves the appellation All-American big band.

FRANK Sinatra was the best chart topper ever, reckons South Yorkshire music buff Chris Thornton.

A Big Band Battle on the stage at Beecher Community Hall on September 19 will be a throwback to the 1930s, with music that will make you want to get up and dance.

Crossing Borders quintet swings into south Cowichan for Saturday's Jazz Vespers gig then into Monday's date at the Duncan Garage Showroom.

Stephen Triffitt as Frank Sinatra OLD Blue Eyes is back in a hard-swinging live performance next month.