Josh Groban with special guest Jennifer Hudson will headline the Count Basie Center for the Arts' Centennial Gala.

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

All the concerts will take place at the ParkStage at the East Freehold Showgrounds in Freehold.

The Count Basie Center for the Arts, in partnership with Monmouth County Tourism, has announced the first three performers scheduled to take ...

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

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 ...

RED BANK - Plans to double the size of the historic Count Basie Theatre are moving forward. The Zoning Board Thursday unanimously approved exceptions to building height and parking restrictions sought ...

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 ...

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 ...