The Count Basie Center for the Arts' annual awards ceremony celebrates the best of Monmouth County’s high school theatre.

The first wave concerts at the new ParkStage outdoor concert at the East Freehold Park Fairgrounds in Freehold Township have ...

Country rocker Sheryl Crow, a nine-time Grammy Award-winner, is set to headline the Count Basie Center for the Arts' Summer Gala in June.

Jonathan Van Ness is an Emmy-nominated television personality, New York Times best-selling author, podcaster, and hairstylist ...

Tallahassee's Scotty Barnhart got his moment in the spotlight at Sunday's 66th Grammy Awards. Looking relaxed, confident, and mightily pleased, renowned jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, educator, ...

Florida State jazz professor and trumpet player Scotty Barnhart is one of the world’s leading experts when it comes to legendary pianist-songwriter-bandleader Count Basie (1904-1984). There’s a good ...

Count Basie fans tend to focus on his hard-driving “Super Chief" bands of the 1940s and his stylistic “New Testament" bands of the 1950s. And rightly so. But often overlooked is Basie's output during ...

The history of the Count Basie orchestra is generally divided into two broad periods—the Old Testament band, which lasted from 1935 to 1950, and the New Testament band, which lasted from 1952 until ...