Counting the great drummers of the Count Basie Orchestra is like counting stars. They are multitudinous. Buddy Rich played for the legendary bandleader. Jo Jones did, too. Gus Johnson, Sonny Payne, ...

Big band and jazz drummer Louie Bellson, a master musician who performed with such greats as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and his late wife, Pearl Bailey, has died. He was 84. By ...

West Coast jazz drummer, composer and educator Chico Hamilton, who went to high school with Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon and went on to play with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie… By ...

Virtually every photo taken of Chubby Jackson shows the bassist smiling or laughing. In the 1940s and '50s, Jackson played in Woody Herman's band starting in 1943 and remained intermittently through ...

When your drumming career begins at age 19 in the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, playing for jazz legends like Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman and Count Basie, it’s more than a great start. To perform with Ella ...