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Back in the late sixties, when rock musicians started to explore more complex things, the music became at the same time more ...
Stone’s first album, “George Stone Big Band--Piece by Piece,” is on the Sea Breeze Jazz Records label. His program tonight will include compositions by Thad Jones and Lars Janson.
“Big band music” isn’t everybody’s first thought when they’re pondering what to punch into Spotify, we’ll grant you that. But if all big bands make you think of is “jazz hands” and ...
After a summer dominated by blockbuster tours by Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, this fall the music business gets back to the business of releasing albums.Longstanding acts are returning with new LPs ...
A Colorado-based hip hop, jazz and electronic music duo spoke with FOX31 about their album release coming up this weekend, ...
Big-band music began to appear more often on records. Basie collected a new full-size outfit 16 months ago, bounced back with a reputation as the swingingest band in the land.
Revive Big Band’s Vinyl Release Honors Jazz And Hip-Hop’s Shared Legacy Igmar Thomas’ ensemble bridges eras of Black American music with the soul-stirring project, ‘Like A Tree It Grows ...
Saxophonist and composer Steve Lehman joins France’s Orchestre National de Jazz on an innovative album that integrates electronic techniques; Miho Hazama and her group, M_Unit, deliver a ...
Big band music was an early and popular form of jazz that helped solidify jazz’s central place in the history of American culture, and so it seems fitting to pay tribute to this particular genre ...
The legacy of Gennett Records is celebrated by the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra on an upcoming double album titled “The Gennett Suite.” The big band of 18 members will perform “The ...
Enjoy the big-band sounds of Mary Lou Williams, Billy Strayhorn, and Count Basie on Monday for the Bakersfield College Jazz Studies program's fall concert.