He made his professional debut as an accompanist for vaudeville acts and replaced Waller in an act called Katie Crippen and her Kids ... Basie soon joined the band after sitting in with them that ...

I know Quincy Jones bridged the history of music, from Count Basie to Michael Jackson to Snoop ... at moments of great loss ...

When Tony Danza was a kid, he'd often be roped into cleaning ... "Sinatra & Stories." The show hits the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank on Friday, Feb. 21, as part of the theater's ...

In symbolic terms, the loss of Count Basie, who died last April, a few months shy of his eightieth birthday and a year away from his golden anniversary as a bandleader, is incalculable.