The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, John Beasley's MONK'estra, and the Elmhurst University Jazz Band will be among the featured artists at the 55th annual Elmhurst University Jazz Festival, which audiences ...
Composer Ayn Inserto and the WDR Big Band are set to release a live album featuring trumpeter Sean Jones, capturing a ...
Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast young dancers with layers of rhythm, but creative composers seeking a larger canvas have kept the form alive. Hear 12 big selections. By Giovanni ...
In 1990, Duluthian Randy Lee had a vision. He wanted to create a 16-19-piece big band jazz orchestra consisting of "the finest jazz musicians around" the Northland. He wanted to create a band full of ...
In Springfield, the holiday season isn’t complete without jazz music. If you haven’t experienced Christmas music like jazz legends Duke Ellington and Count Basie’s arrangements of familiar classics, ...
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 ...
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