Last week, the tour celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the legendary Count Basie Orchestra reached Perth and the Perth Concert Hall. Now under the leadership of Scotty Barnhart, the 18-piece orchestra played two, hour-long sets to an appreciative and attentive audience of young and old. Now I wouldn’t consider myself a connoisseur of jazz music,…
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Once upon a time, American popular music was dominated by big bands, criss-crossing their way across the country doing battle in music halls; vying for the love of baying audiences wanting to dance. Larger than life characters, with aristocratic monikers like Duke and Count headed up these bands, and helped define and soundtrack the era….
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