City : Berwyn
Address : Fitzgerald's, 6615 Roosevelt Rd, Berwyn, IL 60402
Time : 3:30pm

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The Count Basie Orchestra are winners of the 2018 Downbeat Reader’s Poll and are 2019 Grammy nominees for All About That Basie for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Recording.

William Count Basie started the Count Basie Orchestra in 1935, in Kansas City, Missouri. Within a year, America was listening in on popular radio shows throughout the country to hear what would become “The Swingingest Band In All The Land”! A phenomena was born in 1935, that is still going strong today!

Since Basie’s passing in 1984, Thad Jones, Frank Foster, Grover Mitchell, Bill Hughes and Dennis Mackrel have led the Count Basie Orchestra and maintained it as one of the elite performing organizations in jazz.  The Count Basie Orchestra, today directed by Scotty Barnhart, has won every respected jazz poll in the world at least once, won 18 Grammy Awards, performed for Kings, Queens, and other world Royalty, appeared in several movies, television shows, at every major jazz festival and major concert hall in the world. The latest honor is the critically acclaimed release in 2015 of A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas!, the very first holiday album in the 80 year history of the orchestra. Released on Concord Music, it went to #1 on the Jazz charts and sold out on Amazon!  It’s next recording will celebrate the first 80 years of the orchestra and will be released on Concord Music in early 2018. Executive Produced by Scotty Barnhart and Sam Beler, it features legendary artists such as Stevie Wonder, Take 6, Joey DeFrancesco, Kurt Elling, and others.

With guest vocalist Everett Greene

NOTE: This is a seated show; everyone with a ticket will get a seat. Also there will be no food allowed into this show. Capri, right next door, will be open if you want to eat before the show. Call Capri at (708) 637-4085