Revive Big Band’s Vinyl Release Honors Jazz And Hip-Hop’s Shared Legacy ... but it’s conscientious as well because I’m a trumpet player, I’m a composer, I’m a writer,” he said.

"The Mellvids" are a 20 piece big band from Gent, Belgium. The composition of the orchestra is that of the swing big bands and jazz orchestras of the thirties & fourties and has 4 sections : trombones ...

That‘s why this year, when Gransden and his big band take the stage at the Atlanta Jazz Festival on its closing night, 9 p.m. Memorial Day, the band will play a set that pays homage to Yi and ...

In a historic Bass Player interview, Bruce and Reid officially announced that the band was to be called Spectrum Road, and ...

Each player has a thick folder or “book” stuffed with song charts that span the Big Band and Swing eras of the 1930s and ‘40s, such as “In the Mood,” “Harlem Nocturne and “Moonlight ...

Big Band Jazz: Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast dancers with layers of rhythm, but creative composers are keeping the form alive. Hear 12 big selections .

Moreover, the band’s free-wheeling spirit, as their music careened between blues, jazz, and whatever else they fancied taking ...

Garth Hudson, a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist best known for his distinctive organ and saxophone work with the Band, and who in his later years remained an in-demand player among young musicians ...

The Heisey Wind Ensemble brings its 40th anniversary season to a close at 7:30 p.m. May 17 with a concert by the HWE Big Band, featuring Michael Smith.

The Jazz Studio is a program of The Excelsior Band Preservation, a nonprofit created to “create an archival home for,” and to preserve the legacy of, Mobile’s Excelsior Band.In 2022 the ...

If you haven’t experienced Christmas music like jazz legends Duke Ellington and Count Basie’s arrangements of familiar classics, “A Swingin’ Big Band Christmas” with the Springfield ...