Results for "Count Basie Orchestra"

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 31, 2009

September 8, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 266 248 +18 0 60 1 6 2 2 3 Bobby Broom Bobby Broom Plays For Monk (Origin) 207 209 -2 2 53 2 12 3 28 36 Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch) 185 92 +93 2 ...

Article: Album Review

Frank Wess: Once is Not Enough

by Chris M. Slawecki
September 3, 2009

Dominated by the sound of swinging, good-time blues, Once Is Not Enough indisputably plants NEA Jazz Master Wess in the tradition of Count Basie, in whose Count Basie Orchestra Wess played flute, alto, and tenor saxophones for more than a decade. This set jumps from the very start: Wess' tenor on his opening, title ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 24, 2009

September 1, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 248 266 -18 0 61 1 5 2 3 4 Bobby Broom Bobby Broom Plays For Monk (Origin) 209 194 +15 0 51 2 11 3 3 3 Christian McBride & Inside Straight Kind Of Brown (Mack Avenue) 183 ...

Article: Live Review

Cape May Jazz Festival Continues to Rebuild

by Ken Franckling
April 26, 2009

The 31st Cape May Jazz FestivalCape May, New JerseyApril 16-18, 2009 As it works to regroup from its own financial problems of the past several years, due in some measure to over expansion, the Cape May Jazz Festival team didn't need the impact of a full-blown recession. L to R: ...

Album

Mustermesse Basel 1956 Part 1

By Count Basie Orchestra

Label: Victor
Released: 2008

Video

Corner Pocket

Featuring the music of Count Basie Orchestra
Duration: 4:52
July 4, 2008

The Count Basie Orchestra, under the direction of Bill Hughes, live in Basel, Switzerland, 2004. "Corner Pocket" by Freddie Green. Soloists: Tony Suggs-piano, Scotty Barnhart-trumpet, Doug Lawrence-tenor sax, Butch Miles-drums.

Album

Basie At Birdland

By Count Basie Orchestra

Label: Victor
Released: 2007

Album

Basie Is Back

By Count Basie Orchestra

Label: Victor
Released: 2006

Article: Album Review

Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Is Back

by Jack Bowers
November 20, 2006

No, the Count isn't literally back... in fact, he's never really been away, as the Count Basie Orchestra has kept rolling along under a series of leaders since Basie's death in April 1984. This latest incarnation, directed by the Count's longtime bass trombonist Bill Hughes, was recorded in concert in October '05 at Denryoku Hall in ...

Album

Good Time Blues

By Count Basie Orchestra

Label: Victor
Released: 2004