Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong all faced the indignities of the Jim Crow era. Their music proved triumphant. Check out the full Wall Street Journal article HERE.
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‘Basie Swings The Blues’ Wins 2024 Grammy! READ HERE.
Basie Swings the Blues is a collection of one-off sessions with many of today’s great blues artists, with “blues” defined as you’d see it catalogued in your local record store: Buddy Guy, Charlie Musselwhite, Shemekia Copeland, Bobby Rush, and others. https://artsfuse.org/280246/jazz-album-review-basie-swings-the-blues-blues-soaked-big-band-jazz/
Paul Peck sits down with The Takeaway to talk about the project and the ways he’s brought this music to a new age. Listen Here!
The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra performed a blockbuster free concert in the historic Buskirk Chumley Theater in Bloomington, IN, as a gift to and with support from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music on February 9, 2023. As the orchestra took the stage, the audience responded with their overwhelming appreciation. It was no fluke when after each tune this night, the accolades were repeated from a packed house of students and members of the community who had gotten word of this amazing concert experience. Read Here