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Released last month on GroundUP, “Reach,” the band’s first new studio album since 2019, marks Kneebody’s relaunch as a quartet with a sleeker, more muscular sound.
The smooth sound of jazz is filling the Electric City this weekend for the 20th annual Scranton Jazz Festival. More than 80 ...
An encore from the best jazz band in the world was held Tuesday night. The Memphis Central High School held its spring concert on the heels of the jazz band winning an international competition in ...
Get ready to groove beneath the summer sky this weekend with the sixth annual Brass City Jazz Fest in downtown Waterbury on ...
“When you hear the JAS Academy Big Band, or the students in their individual combos, you will not believe that these groups just met less than two weeks prior,” Jazz Aspen Snowmass Chief Operating ...
When the great jazz arranger and composer Gil Evans orchestrated “Spoonful” for his 17-piece big band in 1964, he encapsulated all the different aspects of the blues into one epic 14-minute ...
The Big Band era of the 1930s and 1940s also brought many musicians to California to perform in its ballrooms, supper clubs and the occasional Hollywood movie. Les Brown, Stan Kenton, Charlie Barnet ...
The Big Band Jubilee is an ode to jazz, a style born in New Orleans and brought to New York and other major U.S. cities by Black Americans moving north and west in search of better lives during ...