What Makes It Great? Count Basie
- Date
- Monday, March 22, 2027
- Time
- Show 7:30 PM
- Venue
- Merkin Hall (Kaufman Music Center), Lincoln Center
What Makes It Great? Count Basie plays Merkin Hall (Kaufman Music Center), a 450-capacity small room in Lincoln Center, on Monday, March 22. The show starts at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $70 plus fees.
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? Featuring the Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra Explore the music and extraordinary 50-year career of one of the most important big band leaders of the 20th century. Host Rob Kapilow takes you from his early days in 1930s Kansas City and Chicago at the height of the swing era to his later success into the 1980s. Hear the evolution of Count Basies style from spontaneous head arrangements parts worked out by improvisation and memory to his sophisticated later arrangements through popular hits including Jumpin at the Woodside, Lil Darlin and April in Paris. Go to this Series' Home Page
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