New West Records released Big Band of Brothers: A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band in November 2019 as a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Allman Brothers Band's debut. The album ...

Drawing from New Orleans jazz and early rock 'n' roll, the locally based 10-piece Big Hoke has returned with its latest album ...

What has really kept the big band alive is its attractiveness to creative jazz composers seeking a larger canvas. The big band has been embraced over the years by jazz’s left wing (David Murray ...

If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness ... or the blare of a thoroughly unsubtle big band record; aren’t they the equivalent of, say, DragonForce?

Gullah Roots” suite got its start years ago with a commission from the Savannah Music Festival. Then Etienne Charles came to ...

Jazz Fest’s first weekend finished strong with huge crowds on Saturday and Sunday. The audience for the Dave Matthews Band’s first show of 2025 was large. Maybe not Lil Wayne large, but big.

The annual Weekend of Jazz provides an unparalleled opportunity ... There are currently 21 members in One O’Clock—“pretty big, big band,” as Baylock says—with five saxophones, five ...

In mid-December, most of Arturo O’Farrill’s 19-piece Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra lined the aisles of Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse while performing the premiere of his three-part suite ...

Big Ears Festival is a celebration of musical exploration, and you never know what you’ll find. With a lineup spanning jazz, experimental folk, boundary-pushing electronica, global fusion and ...

The Fellowship Jazz Center (FJC) is reviving big band music in Sioux Falls ... endeavor is booking shows five nights a week and always drawing an intimate, attentive crowd.

SRJO is a 17-piece jazz big band featuring a handful of the Pacific Northwest’s ample improvisatory talent. They perform four or five pairs of concerts each year, most of which take place in the ...