As the drummer for the world-famous Count Basie Orchestra (1975-1979 and 1997-2007), Miles quickly became renowned for his swinging big band style and techniques. Butch's first drum hero was Gene ...

Usually I can’t run fast enough from a “ghost band” trying to carry on the name of a departed swing-era bandleader: such groups almost always trade on nostalgia, replaying the old hits like a jukebox, ...

Elite jazz drummer Butch Miles missed his scheduled appearance at the 2018 Twin Cities Winter Jazz Festival because of health reasons, but he plans to be part of the first-ever TC Fall Jazz Festival ...

Counting the great drummers of the Count Basie Orchestra is like counting stars. They are multitudinous. Buddy Rich played for the legendary bandleader. Jo Jones did, too. Gus Johnson, Sonny Payne, ...

Sunday’s Twin Cities Fall Jazz Festival at Crooners in Fridley featured a veteran jazz drummer with years of experience – 74-year-old Butch Miles – and a luminous newcomer, New Orleans-based vocalist ...

How about that? Cookin' The Books provides a positive spin on the current description of corporate greed and deception. For the purposes of this album, it has been corrupted to refer to the Great ...

Grover Mitchell, who has been leading the Count Basie Band for more than five years, insists that the ensemble not be described as a “ghost band.” The group’s performance at Segerstrom Hall in the ...