Scotty Barnhart is an internationally acclaimed jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, educator, author, producer, two-time Grammy winner, and director of The Count Basie Orchestra. A BBC-produced documentary on Count Basie and the orchestra entitled Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes premiered on PBS in the US and UK in 2019, coinciding with the orchestra’s 85 th anniversary. It follows their critically acclaimed release in 2015 of A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas, the first-holiday album in the 80-year history of the orchestra. 1 jazz orchestra in the world, and a Grammy nomination for their 2018 acclaimed recording, All About That Basie, which features special guests Stevie Wonder, Jon Faddis, Take 6, and Kurt Elling, among others. The latest honors are the 2018 Downbeat Readers Poll Award as the No. The Count Basie Orchestra, directed by Scotty Barnhart, has won every respected jazz poll in the world at least once collected 18 Grammy Awards performed for kings, queens, and other world royalty and appeared in several movies, television shows, at every major jazz festival and major concert hall in the world. Pianist and bandleader William James “Count” Basie was and still is an American institution that personifies the grandeur and excellence of jazz. The legendary Count Basie Orchestra comes to the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre for a show on Sunday, April 24, 2022.įeaturing members personally chosen by him, more than 30 years after his passing.

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