The popular music of several decades ago required many instruments, hence the name “big band era.” Today, bandwidth increase is again a sign of the times. The explosion of Internet usage, ...

The Big Band Alumni is a 17-piece big band that features some musicians that are graduates of the greatest big bands of all time like Benny Goodman, Harry James, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Count Basie ...

In the Mood: The Big Band Era in the Bluegrass is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

POTTSVILLE — The M&J Big Band of Pottsville is “swinging into 2025” with “energy, passion and a full slate of performances” as it celebrates its 15th anniversary “of delivering the iconic sounds of ...

Saxophonist Matt Baldwin (from left) and vocalists Tim Noland, Lauren Braton, Melinda MacDonald and Taylor Avazpour. LARRY LEVENSON Quality Hill Playhouse Quality Hill Playhouse producing artistic ...

Brother-and-sister vocalists Michele and Don DuPont take center stage with their Big Band, delivering the excitement, swing, and sophistication of the classic Big Band Era. Get ready to be swept away ...

HILLSDALE — Working towards the end of a series of linked short stories, local author and educator Wesley Brown treated a small crowd with a reading from the series Sunday at the Roeliff Jansen ...

Harold V. May is perhaps best remembered in the Berkshires as an industrial inventor. But he had a musical ear, and in the heyday of the jazzy, bluesy, danceable Big Band Era of the late 1920s and ...

The Big Band era is alive and well for a group of local musicians whose taste for jazz drew them to one another, and into the Calumet Ridge Jazz Ensemble. For trumpet player Tony Barenie, "there's ...

CUTLINES - The Starlight Band opens its 67th season Tuesday with its 20-member Jazz Orchestra performing "Greatest Hits of the Big Band Era." ...

GREEN LAKE – Fox Cities Swing Band will perform a free holiday concert at 1 p.m. Dec. 14 at the Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake, according to a community announcement. The volunteer-managed band ...