Basie’s big band was performing this popular Neal Hefti composition for a “warm-up” set at the Sands, ... Big Band Jazz: Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast dancers with ...

The band initially set up and started practicing in the basement of North House, one of the University’s two Environmental Program Houses, and the next semester played at the University’s Orchestra ...

Welcome to the award-winning Thompson Jazz Studies Program at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! Our program offers specialized instruction in jazz performance and pedagogy for ...