Count Basie

New York Fashion Week fall 2013: Kimberly Ovitz

2013-02-08 12:37:00

NEW YORK -- Kimberly Ovitz, the daughter of Hollywood power player Michael Ovitz, showed her fall-winter 2013 collection Thursday afternoon at New York Fashion Week. The setting was the now-vacant Cafe Rouge, site of historic performances by such jazz...

Ray Briem dies at 82; all-night radio host in L.A.

2012-12-13 21:33:00

Ray Briem, the longtime KABC-AM talk show host who ruled all-night radio for nearly three decades with his phone calls to the famous and the quirky and his opinionated banter slamming liberals, championing conservative causes and extolling the big-band...

From the archives: Dave Brubeck at 90: 'I'm very fortunate'

2012-12-05 11:28:00

Two years before Dave Brubeck died, the Los Angeles Times published an interview with the great jazzman on the occasion of his 90th birthday. With Brubeck's death at 92, we share our visit to his home in this profile from Dec. 5, 2010. WILTON, Conn --...

Ben Isaacs dies at 107; oldest Pullman porter

2012-08-18 00:00:00

For more than three decades, Ben Isaacs worked as a Pullman porter, one of the uniformed railway men who served first-class passengers traveling in luxurious sleeping cars — a much-coveted job for African Americans between the 1870s and late 1960s....

Maria Cole dies at 89; singer was widow of Nat King Cole

2012-07-13 00:00:00

Maria Cole, the widow of music legend Nat King Cole and the mother of singer Natalie Cole whose own singing career included a stint as vocalist for Duke Ellington's orchestra in the mid-1940s, has died. She was 89. Cole died Tuesday at a hospice in...

Joe Smith's candid artist talks heading to Library of Congress

2012-06-18 16:37:33

Disneyland princesses moving into new Fantasy Faire village in 2013

2011-08-23 18:31:00

Breaking a wicked stepmother's curse, Disneyland's fairytale princesses will be whisked away from their crowded one-room temporary home in 2013 and magically transported to a spacious new storybook village more befitting of their royal lineage. Blame...

Bob Brookmeyer dies at 81; jazz trombonist, composer

2011-12-19 00:00:00

Bob Brookmeyer, a jazz trombonist, composer, arranger and educator whose multifaceted career reached from cutting-edge performances with Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz to innovative big band compositions and highly regarded classes at the New England...

This time, it's Barbara Morrison's turn for a favor

2011-09-10 00:00:00

Sitting in the hall that she operates in Leimert Park on a recent afternoon, Barbara Morrison is uncharacteristically sedentary. She recently lost a leg to diabetes. While she speaks with customary grace and cheer, the jazz vocalist is in a period of...

Jane Scott dies at 92; longtime rock critic

2011-07-05 00:00:00

Jane Scott was a code breaker for the Navy during World War II. She owned a wind-up Victrola. And the first song she ever loved was from the big band era: a Jimmy Rushing hit for Count Basie called "Sent for You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today)." So...

Did Mickey Cohen really own Slapsy Maxie's nightclub?

2011-12-01 16:37:17

‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ recap: Tre Down

2011-10-17 04:35:42

The jazz great died of pancreatic cancer in 1984. He was 79.

2012-09-05 07:20:49

Shades of Blue Orchestra plays big band-style music associated with entertainers such as Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie and Artie Shaw. The band will open the Pen Mar Park concert season with a show Sunday, May 27.

2012-05-24 00:00:00

Most people these days can't say they have ever seen a live performance by Cab Calloway or Duke Ellington; it's been a long time since Calloway and Ellington rocked the scene.

2012-02-09 10:25:55