Benny Powell, a trombonist who performed or recorded with everyone from Frank Sinatra to Screamin' Jay Hawkins but who was best known for his long tenure with Count Basie's big band, died on June 26 ...

Known for his wide and wild orchestral arrangements, William "Count" Basie also demonstrates a calmer, more concentrated attitude on this first volume of GRP’s new "Swingsation" series (which also ...

Liverpool High School band director Jim Spadafore just sent a reminder that his four-year calendar has flipped over to something very special for the 12th annual Jumpin' Jazz Jam, at 7:30 p.m. April ...

Benny Powell, a jazz trombonist who played with Count Basie's band from the early 1950s to the early 1960s, taking a solo turn in its 1955 recording of "April in Paris," died June 26 at a hospital in ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It’s music to his family’s ears. William (Bill) Hughes, a jazz musician, now has an street that celebrates his life and legacy in West Brighton. Barker Street and Trinity Place ...

Usually I can’t run fast enough from a “ghost band” trying to carry on the name of a departed swing-era bandleader: such groups almost always trade on nostalgia, replaying the old hits like a jukebox, ...

If some of the old color and steam were absent, there was still reason to rejoice as the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, led by Wynton Marsalis, celebrated the centennial year of the kid from Red Bank.

Though the band’s namesake has been gone for almost 30 years, some of these players—such as Clarence Banks (trombone), John Williams (sax), and musical director Dennis Mackrel—were on the bus with the ...