It’s Week Three of recording for Modern Baseball at their Philadelphia studio, and singer/guitarist Brendan Lukens is pissing off the rest of his band. He’s in the booth, laying down vocals for an ...
Swing band music will always be cool. An inability to see its coolness is, well, not very cool. In this writer’s opinion, it’s still one of the hippest things around, a style of music that literally ...
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. And swing is coming to Naperville with the Julian Bliss Septet. The ’30s and ’40s-era swing band performs “A Tribute to Benny Goodman” at 8 p.m.
The Mountain Arts Community Center will present a night of swinging jazz with the Uptown Big Band, the Tennessee Valley’s leading modern big band on Nov. 19. With 17 veteran instrumentalists and two ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Straight-ahead swing, the kind of classic jazz that's an old friend to many, fills the Friday, Oct. 17, Just Friends concert that kicks off Purdue University Bands' jazz season.
Most people wouldn’t watch live shows in Las Vegas and think, “How do I bring a Vegas-style show to LA that's over the top for big band swing — with dancing and tight vocal harmonics?” Well, that’s ...