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Count Basie Orchestra at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

Read "Count Basie Orchestra at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts" reviewed by Patricia Myers


Count Basie Orchestra Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Scottsdale, Arizona December 19, 2015 The Count Basie Orchestra solidified its 80-year reputation for strong swingability, inventive solo segments and supreme section cohesion during two back-to-back concerts on a tour in support of the band's first-ever Christmas-theme album. But those seasonal charts didn't dominate the program, instead were scattered like raisins in a melodic holiday pudding. Several soloists cleverly injected Christmas-song snippets into the band's expected ...

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Count Basie Orchestra: America's #1 Band: The Columbia Years

Read "America's #1 Band: The Columbia Years" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


The Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra – the Count Basie Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra – which one is superior? A more contemporary example would be the fractious communities who favor the Beatles as opposed to the Rolling Stones. Personally, I have always favored the organic feel of the Stones. I give the edge to Basie for the same reason. Ellington's music was that of a composer, one carefully thought out and executed. Basie's music was from the ...

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Count Basie Orchestra: Atomic Swing

Read "Atomic Swing" reviewed by Mike Neely


Count Basie usually brings to mind a legendary rhythm section, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, and such singers as Jimmy Rushing and Billie Holiday. But after World War II, long after his most famous orchestra dissolved, Basie put together another that is among the finest big bands in the history of jazz. Count Basie: Atomic Swing provides all the evidence the most doubtful listener could demand. This is classic jazz.

Capitol Records and Roulette Jazz provide an excellent selection of Basie ...

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Count Basie Orchestra: Paris Jazz Concert, April 1972

Read "Paris Jazz Concert, April 1972" reviewed by Jack Bowers


There are at least two things one must keep in mind when considering live or studio recordings made some years ago by well-- known Jazz artists or groups and released on compact disc by not--so--well--known labels. One is playing time; the other is over--all sound quality. The Count Basie Orchestra's Paris Jazz Concert, which took place twenty--seven years ago and was repackaged this year by Malaco Classics, passes the first test with flying colors, clocking in at a generous 72:35, ...

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Count Basie Orchestra: Live at the Sands

Read "Live at the Sands" reviewed by Jack Bowers


During a career that spanned more than sixty years, Frank Sinatra performed many times at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. When Ol’ Blue Eyes appeared there in February–March 1966, the occasion was especially memorable, as his “warm–up act” (and accompanist) was no less than the celebrated Count Basie Orchestra, a pairing that led to two marvelous albums, “Sinatra Live at the Sands,” and this one, which features the Basie ensemble onstage “before Frank,” playing the music that coaxed Sinatra’s ...

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Count Basie Orchestra: Count Plays Duke

Read "Count Plays Duke" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The Count Basie Orchestra's debut for MAMA Records embraces the best of two worlds - the Count's hard-swinging brass, reeds and rhythm and the graceful and enduring melodies of Duke Ellington (and Billy Strayhorn). It doesn't get much more inviting than that. If the Basie organization has lost any appreciable ground under the Count's successors - first Frank Foster, now Grover Mitchell - it isn't readily apparent. Everyone seems in topnotch form on these seamless interpretations of a baker's dozen ...

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Career

Bill Hughes, bandleader and director of the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra Announces Retirement

Bill Hughes, bandleader and director of the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra Announces Retirement

Source: Dawn Singh Publicity

Trombonist, Bill Hughes, bandleader and director of the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, has announced his retirement on September 12, 2010. Hired by William “Count" Basie himself, Hughes first joined the Orchestra in 1953 and devoted nearly his entire career to the band. He assumed leadership of the band in 2003 following the passing of his musical companion and fellow trombonist, Grover Mitchell. William Henry Hughes was born in Dallas, Texas, on March 28, 1930, and graduated from Armstrong High School ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Count Basie Orchestra, John Patitucci, Jeff Beck, Curtis Roads and Bryan O'Reilly, Steve Tyrell, and More

Jazz This Week: Count Basie Orchestra, John Patitucci, Jeff Beck, Curtis Roads and Bryan O'Reilly, Steve Tyrell, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

It's going to be another busy weekend for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with shows on tap ranging from classic big-band swing to experimental electronics, along with several stops in between. Let's go to the highlights:Starting tonight, bassist John Patitucci (pictured) leads his trio for two sets per night through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. Considered one of the top bass players in jazz since the mid-1980s, Patitucci has played St. Louis before, most recently ...

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Music Industry

Legendary Count Basie Orchestra Announces New Management

Legendary Count Basie Orchestra Announces New Management

Source: Dawn Singh Publicity

In agreement with the Trust of William J. Basie and for the first time since 1984, the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra is under new management. Artist Management Productions, LLC will represent the Count Basie Orchestra with its new management team including Bill Hughes, Director; Dee Askew, Booking Manager; Clarence Banks, Manager; Doug Lawrence, Operations Director. “The Count Basie Orchestra has continued to tour consistently over the past 74 years and now, thanks to our new management team, we have even ...

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Tony Bennett at the Apollo with Count Basie Orchestra

Tony Bennett at the Apollo with Count Basie Orchestra

Source: Michael Ricci

Tony Bennett performed standards and holiday songs on Tuesday night with the Count Basie Orchestra at the Apollo Theater. Poise in the wind of uncertainty is a very old idea in American pop. Basically outdated and nearly archaeological, its the default disposition of all songs that cycle constantly through cocktail-hour soundtracks, songs from a disappearing race of sanguine, moral-romantic heroes. When Tony Bennett, now 82, enacts that kind of poise onstage, whats impressive isnt that hes doing it at all ...

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New Orleans Award-Winning Jazz Photographer Steven Forster Unveils "Musical Legends Remixed" with Ella Fitzgerald, the Count Basie Orchestra, Quincy Jones and Much More at Robert Bruno Gallery November 3rd 6-9 P.M.

New Orleans Award-Winning Jazz Photographer Steven Forster Unveils "Musical Legends Remixed" with Ella Fitzgerald, the Count Basie Orchestra, Quincy Jones and Much More at Robert Bruno Gallery November 3rd 6-9 P.M.

Source: Michael Ricci

New Orleans Award-winning Jazz Photographer Steven Forster has announced that he will unveil the exhibition of his legends series of jazz and musical giants including Ella Fitzgerald, The Count Basie Orchestra, Fats Domino, Quincy Jones, Queen Latifah, Shirley Horn, Al Hirt and more at the Robert Bruno Gallery in New Orleans for the month of November 2007. The First Lady of Song Ella Fitzgerald will be among many giants Forster photographed in New Orleans including The Count Basie Orchestra, Fats ...

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Count Basie Orchestra Performs with Special Guest Nnenna Freelon and Paquito D'Rivera Quintet at the Kimmel Center, September 28

Count Basie Orchestra Performs with Special Guest Nnenna Freelon and Paquito D'Rivera Quintet at the Kimmel Center, September 28

Source: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Kimmel Center Presents Mellon Jazz Sponsored by The Bank of New York Mellon

Timeless jazz performers, Nnenna Freelon with the Count Basie Orchestra, and the Paquito D'Rivera Quintet share the bill on the Verizon Hall stage at the Kimmel Center Friday, September 28, 2007 at 8pm in Verizon Hall to kick off the Mellon Jazz Fridays Series for the Kimmel Center Presents Sponsored by Citi 2007/2008 season. The tour celebrates a recent collaborative recording between Nnenna Freelon and the Count ...

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'ASR Records Signs Count Basie Orchestra Guitarist, Will Matthews

'ASR Records Signs Count Basie Orchestra Guitarist, Will Matthews

Source: All About Jazz

Kansas City USA -- -- ASR RECORDS announces that Will Matthews has officially joined its Roster of Artists and Producers. Matthews, who is the guitarist for the world-famous Count Basie Orchestra, contacted 'ASR RECORDS Co-founder, Alaadeen on May 7 inquiring about joining the label. Alaadeen immediately approved the deal. “... I'm looking forward to being a part of the 'ASR family," Matthews stated in an email written to the label. The GRAMMY Award winning guitarist joins a Jazz label that ...

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Count Basie Orchestra at Chris' Jazz Cafe on April 19, 2007

Count Basie Orchestra at Chris' Jazz Cafe on April 19, 2007

Source: All About Jazz


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Recording

Ray Charles & Count Basie Orchestra Release Ray Sings, Basie Swings CD

Ray Charles & Count Basie Orchestra Release Ray Sings, Basie Swings CD

Source: All About Jazz

NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED RAY CHARLES TAPES DISCOVERED; RESULTING CONCORD/STARBUCKS HEAR MUSIC'S ALBUM IS A GROUND-BREAKING HYBRID OF ARCHIVAL TRACKS AND EXCLUSIVE NEW PERFORMANCES New CD Pairs Ray Charles's Stellar Vocals With New Recordings by The Count Basie Orchestra, Mixing Creative Musicianship and State-of-the-Art Technology

Concord Records and Starbucks Hear Music, the two Companies that co-released Genius Loves Company, announced today that they will partner again to co-release and co-market Ray Sings, Basie Swings, which marries archival, never-before-released Ray Charles recordings with brand-new ...

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Jamie Davis, Vocalist for the Count Basie Orchestra, to Appear at Catalina's August 29th

Jamie Davis, Vocalist for the Count Basie Orchestra, to Appear at Catalina's August 29th

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

Catalina's 6725 Sunset Boulevard Hollywood California 90028 Phone: (323) 466-2210 Music charge: $18.00

August 29th 8:30 and 10:30 shows

Jamie Davis-vocals, Shelly Berg-piano, Greg Fields-drums, Scotty Barnhart-trumpet (Count Basie Orchestra), James Leary- bass (Count Basie Orchestra), Charles McNeil-saxophone

“Davis' clear, resonant baritone voice takes you out for a night on the town, and it leaves you hoping that the evening will never end"—Jim Santella, All About Jazz

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