Joe Gransden and his Big Band will be performing a concert called 100 Years of Swing at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church (PRUMC) on Sept. 22. The show is sponsored by the Atlanta Music Club ...

the program you're about to see is called big band memories, and was taped in 1980. WE'LL HEAR SOME OF THE GREAT BIG BAND HITS, SUCH AS "CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO" "THE DIPSY DOODLE" AND "OPUS ONE." ...

The Great Depression and the onset of World War II were hardly the best of times, but the big band music of those eras helped people face up to them and get through them, Gabel noted.

In the big-band era of the 1930s and 40s, ... It was one of the last great groups to emerge from that city's thriving 1930s scene that had produced bands such as Count Basie‘s.

The Jazz Project Big Band is directed by retired music teacher Michael Smith, who has taught at San Diego State University, the SD School for Creative and Performing Arts, and city schools in ...

Big-band music became popular following the Great Depression, influencing music into the 1940s. The era was led by musicians such as Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and Chick Webb, and ...

We've covered plenty of subgenres here over the years and it's time to give due to the "Big 4" bands that gave shoegaze its push in the heavy music world dating back to the late '80s and early ...

Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast young dancers with layers of rhythm, ... Still, with great writing, jazz orchestras can also be fun to hear up close on recordings.

The Big Bands & All That Jazz Society will present its final concert for the 2023-24 season at 7 p.m. Monday at the First Christian Church, 1425 King Road in Ashland.