Toe-tapping rhythms and classic swing will fill the Lake Havasu High School Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Feb. 1, when the Lake Havasu Symphonic Winds present Red, White and Big ...
The Rancho Santa Fe Big Band is revving up for this year’s holiday concert on Friday evening, Dec. 12, at the Secret Garden (aka Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club) starting at 6:15 p.m. sharp. This 18-piece ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Knights of Swing, LLC and E3 Music Productions have announced THE MARCH ...
Paul Carr and company at Blues Alley; courtesy of Paul Carr 2024 is the “Year of the Big Band,” according to the good folks at the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, and aren’t they the experts on these ...
A mix of rock, swing and jazz infused with a modern flair is coming to the Poway Center for the Performing Arts when Phat Cat Swinger takes the stage. The Southern California-based band that has ...
WAIMEA — Club Kahilu Dance Night returns for an electrifying evening of swing, jazz, and big band classics at 7 p.m. on Saturday. The Big Island Swing Band, featuring Na Hoku Hanohano Award recipient ...
Blues and jazz gave birth to swing music, and Colorado played a role in that development. The music was nurtured in the state by Glenn Miller, who began his musical exploration in Fort Morgan, as well ...
The most famous photograph of Fletcher Henderson, jazz’s first great big-band leader, shows the dapper, coffee-colored man looking as cryptic as the Sphinx. His eyes are half-closed: You can’t tell if ...
The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, led by trumpeter and singer David Pruyn, drew the Charlotte County Jazz Society's largest audience of the 2021-22 season for its hard-swinging concert on Monday, March 14.
George Gee, big band jazz's answer to the Energizer Bunny, just keeps going and going and going... The diminutive New York-based dynamo leads at least two and perhaps as many as four bands. For the ...
Ask a music geek or a historian and they will probably tell you that the big-band era that was born with radio relay of the Benny Goodman band at L.A.'s Palomar Ballroom on Aug. 21, 1935, ended some ...