Author: Dan Emerson

By Dan Emerson William “Count” Basie’s world-changing sound originated in a raucous Petri dish that will never be replicated – 1930s Kansas City – to become a band that will […]

By Dan Emerson “Where’s the bass player?” It’s one of the musical questions hanging on the collaboration that has created one of improvised music’s newest and most potent duos: Olympic […]