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?

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 ...

Roy Haynes, a jazz drummer and band leader whose skill ... as well as the Luis Russell big band — one of his rare extended associations with a large ensemble. By the late ’40s, he had become ...

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 ...

The Alluvion Big Band will hold performances on the last Sunday of the month throughout the year. Chris Glassman, a bass trombonist and director of Jazz Studies at Interlochen Arts Academy ...

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 ...

“Jazz single-handedly gave Americans a huge boost during the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s with big band swing,” he says. “Then bop came along, and OK, it wasn’t as popular, but it created some of the greatest ...