This year’s lineup is headlined by guitarist and producer Adam Hawley, who boasts 17 No. 1 Billboard hits and collaborations ...

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 ...

Dame Cleo Laine, the singer and actress who has died aged 97, was not only the best jazz vocalist that Britain ever produced, ...

The atmosphere was festive at the Essentially Ellington big band festival in New York, with members of several high school bands playing together in the hallways of Jazz at Lincoln Center on Saturday.

The Big Band Jubilee not only celebrates Black musicianship but reminds attendees of its importance in jazz music. It recreates the old ways Black residents enjoyed music, with the outside of ...

“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 ...

Harness left for Austin in 2018, but moved back to the area in 2021 and started a group called he Golden Triangle Big Band. After having the opportunity to see how other big bands function in ...

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 ...