Over 300,000 people attend shows every year at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank. Erected in 1926 as Reade’s Carlton for Vaudeville and Cinema, it now also houses the Vogel nightclub and the Grinn Arts Education Building, with an adjacent movie theater. Over 20,000 students annually learn there and at other locations.

The concept of the jazz “ghost band” refers to orchestras who continue to play long after the leader dies. Twelve years after Glenn Miller went missing during World War II, his orchestra revved back up.