Saturday's congenial crowd heard plenty of sounds that stretched the boundaries of “traditional” jazz at the annual Newport ...

The smooth sound of jazz is filling the Electric City this weekend for the 20th annual Scranton Jazz Festival. More than 80 ...

Get ready to groove beneath the summer sky this weekend with the sixth annual Brass City Jazz Fest in downtown Waterbury on ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.