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Celebrating Count Basie’s 100th birthday Tickets: $36 reserved seats (includes $1.00 restoration fee) Please call the box office 781-646-4849 to order advance tickets, or simply go to the box office at 7 Medford St. to purchase before showtime The original big stomping sound of Swing can be found with the one and only Count Basie Orchestra. The new found fans, those who have created the latest Swing revival going gangbusters in clubs and ballrooms across the nation, have started to seek out the original bands; the real honest purveyors of this joyous music. Inevitably, their search leads them to the Orchestra that Count Basie built. After all, it was in the Basie bands of the 1930s, in front of the dance floor at Kansas City's Reno Club, that the jazz rhythm section blossomed and what came to be forever known as Swing was born. Today, the musical joy that Count Basie created lives on through the superb Orchestra that bears his name. The Count Basie Orchestra brings generations of fans together as never before. Young audiences who have
heard their favorite neo-swing band play “One O’Clock Jump”, now sit or dance side-by-side with veteran fans
who have spent a lifetime cherishing Basie’s 1937 recording of the same tune. This multi-generational appeal is
what sets the Basie band apart from the current crop of swing bands. The Basie band is that rarest of all musical
ensembles today: a full-time touring jazz orchestra. Night in and night out, they let audiences experience
firsthand that miraculous combination of power and grace that only exists when 19 jazz musicians stand shoulder
to shoulder and call themselves a big band. |
