Live-music venues worth the trip in Red Bank, New Jersey

The Count Basie Center for the Arts’ 1,568-seat main theater in Red Bank, opened in 1926 as Reade’s Carlton and renamed for Count Basie in 1984, now the Jersey Shore’s grand seated house for national tours and touring Broadway runs.

The Count Basie Center’s second stage in its Grunin Arts Education Building, a smaller room for touring acts sized below the main theater next door.