A joyful and exuberant, yet poignant and socially conscious, look at America's post WWII years. It's a true labor of love that captures the spirit of a unique era of American history while celebrating ...

Big Island Swing Band is collaborating with San Jose Taiko and Puna Taiko for “Swingposium,” an immersive production that ...

Paul Carr and company at Blues Alley; courtesy of Paul Carr 2024 is the “Year of the Big Band,” according to the good folks at the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, and aren’t they the experts on these ...

Before bebop and the cool jazz era, swing dancing was the heartbeat of American nightlife. In the 1930s and ’40s, big bands ...

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 ...

A sell-out performance was held by the Rancho Santa Fe Big Band Swing Orchestra on Dec. 15 at the Secret Garden in the heart of Rancho Santa Fe. This jazz orchestra, in existence since 2001, continues ...

George Gee, big band jazz's answer to the Energizer Bunny, just keeps going and going and going... The diminutive New York-based dynamo leads at least two and perhaps as many as four bands. For the ...

WAIMEA — Club Kahilu Dance Night returns for an electrifying evening of swing, jazz, and big band classics at 7 p.m. on Saturday. The Big Island Swing Band, featuring Na Hoku Hanohano Award recipient ...

The most famous photograph of Fletcher Henderson, jazz’s first great big-band leader, shows the dapper, coffee-colored man looking as cryptic as the Sphinx. His eyes are half-closed: You can’t tell if ...

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The recent Southeast Junior High jazz band concert reminded me how community music is all around us. I had a compelling reason to attend in that a grandson was in the band. What I hadn’t counted on ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Knights of Swing, LLC and E3 Music Productions have announced THE MARCH ...