The 1980s were a glorious time with lots of big hair and bouncy musical hits. In fact, there was so much new music and newish ...

Repeat engagements include David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band, Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks, Frank Vignola's Guitar Night, Birdland Big Band ... up inside the world of jazz, and ...

but it was upon hearing “Hello and Goodbye” for the first time that my world shifted. The piece embodies every aspect of big band that we love — energy, excitement, surprise, swing (thank yo ...

where Pan-American rhythms meet the Nordic big band sound. The album is characterized by improvisation and playfulness, is evidence of music's power to unite cultures. Lumen ... Etienne Charles ...

Dan Gabel and His Orchestra featuring Kimberly Hawkey perform new show "The American Big Band Experience" on April 6 in Mechanics Hall. The show coincides with the release of Dan Gabel and his ...

Big-band music became popular following the Great ... The music was heard on the radio throughout World War II and popular vocalists such as Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra brought a new element ...

But we don’t play it poorly.” To an extent, the Mobile Big Band Society was born out of the ashes. Long after the World War II era, swing-era big band music remained a staple of Mobile’s ...

Rustic, dusty and steeped in old-world flavor ... and it pins Music From Big Pink to a tradition that the Band never could live down (or up to, for that matter). Even though it wasn't a huge ...

In Chicago Gene Krupa discovered her singing in a nightclub and invited her into his big band, where she and trumpeter Roy Eldridge rocked the show-business world of 1941 with "Let Me Off Uptown." ...

General information: The ‘house style’ of preparing music notation for the WDR Big Band has been established through decades of projects with many of the top arrangers in the big band world ...