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

The new ParkStage is a collaboration between the Count Basie Center for the Arts and Monmouth County Tourism.

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, ...

The Count Basie Center for the Arts celebrated its 100th anniversary, and two of New Jersey’s most iconic musicians were honored with the first-ever inductions into the Center’s new Walk of Fame. This ...

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 ...