When crosswords try to do jazz

I saw the answer coming Caleb Madison’s Atlantic crossword, but I couldn’t believe it: 8-D, eleven letters, “Basie handle.” Answer: KINGOFSWING.

Count Basie was was known as the Kid from Red Bank. But it was Benny Goodman who was known as the King of Swing.

See also the Los Angeles Times crossword and Duke Ellington, the New Yorker crossword and Jelly Roll Morton, and the New York Times crossword and Mel Tormé.