The Big Band Alumni is a 17-piece big band that features some musicians that are graduates of the greatest big bands of all time like Benny Goodman, Harry James, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Count Basie ...

President Donald Trump holds his sixth Cabinet meeting since Inauguration Day. by Leslee Jaquette Do you hanker for the great sounds of the Big Band era? Would you give your eye-tooth to once again ...

Near the end of the big band era, something curious started happening: The great jazz orchestras remained overwhelmingly popular, and they still spent the vast majority of their time criss-crossing ...

POTTSVILLE — The M&J Big Band of Pottsville is “swinging into 2025” with “energy, passion and a full slate of performances” as it celebrates its 15th anniversary “of delivering the iconic sounds of ...

A sell-out performance was held by the Rancho Santa Fe Big Band Swing Orchestra on Dec. 15 at the Secret Garden in the heart of Rancho Santa Fe. This jazz orchestra, in existence since 2001, continues ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (NEWS RELEASE) - Swing and sway to the music of the Big Band Era at the Silent Wings Museum on Friday, November 8, 2024. Doors open at 5 p.m. and admission is FREE. Enjoy dance lessons ...

When and where: 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, Scituate Center for the Performing Arts, 606 Chief Cushing Highway About: Boston’s premiere Rat Pack tribute big band sets up shop on the South Shore for the ...

Harold V. May is perhaps best remembered in the Berkshires as an industrial inventor. But he had a musical ear, and in the heyday of the jazzy, bluesy, danceable Big Band Era of the late 1920s and ...

The nonet, a nine-member ensemble which enables features of both small group and big band arranging and playing, has probably deserved greater use than it has seen in jazz over the years. Among the ...

The Big Band era is alive and well for a group of local musicians whose taste for jazz drew them to one another, and into the Calumet Ridge Jazz Ensemble. For trumpet player Tony Barenie, "there's ...

Before Glenn Miller became one of the most influential big band leaders of all time, he was a student at the University of Colorado Boulder—for a little while, anyway. Born in Iowa, Miller and his ...