Carmen Bradford: How I hung up on Count Basie

by Ken Fate, KCAW | Feb 7, 2014 |

Carmen_Bradford_80Sitka Jazz Fest headliner Carmen Bradford has an unmatched musical pedigree, and a lot of nerve. As a 22-year-old, she once opened for the Count Basie Orchestra. Seeing the Count himself waiting in the wings, Bradford approached him and asked him for a job. When he called nine months later, she thought it was a prank and hung up on him! Read More