Catherine & Count Basie Middle School 72 is a public school located in Jamaica, NY, which is in a large city setting. The student population of Catherine & Count Basie Middle School 72 is 331 and the ...

As it continues its Centennial Celebration, the Count Basie Center for the Arts has announced a weekend of events commemorating the birth of its namesake and Red Bank native, jazz icon William "Count" ...

The 2026 Basie Awards rolled out the red carpet for the best of Monmouth County high school theater on Tuesday night, May 19, at the historic Red Bank venue. The ceremony brought a capacity crowd to ...

A CONCERT APPEARANCE by the Count Basie Band is a sort of minor miracle in defiance of the caprice of show business. This is his 34th year as a bandleader, and in the style that won him fame almost ...

Gala to honor Basie Center chair Jeremy Grunin and celebrate the organization's student productions and Calpulli Mexican Dance Community programs. The Centennial Gala comes as the Count Basie Center ...

Sir Humphrey Burton, the influential classical music broadcaster, died on Wednesday at the age of 94. Born in Wiltshire, Burton was best known presenting the BBC’s arts programmes Omnibus and In ...

Award-winning classical music broadcaster Sir Humphrey Burton has died at the age of 94. He presented the BBC's Omnibus and In Performance arts programmes in the 1970s and 80s, was the corporation's ...

The Giants of Jazz 2LP reissue unites Frank Sinatra’s classic mid-’60s collaborations with Count Basie and Duke Ellington, newly remastered for vinyl. As a longtime record collector, I was admittedly ...

Bill Basie studied music with his mother as a child and played piano in early childhood. He picked up the basics of early ragtime from some of the great Harlem pianists and studied organ informally ...

One of New Jersey’s most famous residents, along with a famous Jazz musician, will soon be inaugural members of the Count Basie Center for the Arts’ new Walk of Fame in Red Bank. Rock star Jon Bon ...