For a music lifer, it’s an unexpected dream come true. Stapleton resident Russ Anixter and his Hippie Big Band recently released their first album, “What Is?”, an eclectic collection of big-band ...

From its inception in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jazz was considered the only true American art form. Its sound is a melting pot of musical influences, incorporating remnants of ragtime, ...

Brian Culbertson has scored hit singles on just about every Billboard chart there is. Culbertson, an Illinois-born pianist, bandleader and songwriter who performs at the Charleston Music Hall on Oct.

The Community Band ‘Swing into Spring’  concert is scheduled for Sunday, March 15 at Merritt Island High School Auditorium.

Stan Kenton Research Center, Staunton High School, and Shenandoah Conservatory hosting big band concert March 27 ...

Even though "road bands" are by and large a relic of the distant past, big bands continue to persevere and perform in cities across the country, from Los Angeles to Chicago, Dallas to Atlanta, and ...

When rock ’n’ roll arrived, a lot of the older jazz musicians — and even more so, jazz fans — professed to detest it. Yet at least as late as the end of the 1960s, jazz and rock had more in common ...

When Mario A. Rodriguez of Wonky Power performance space/studio asked Woody Witt in 2023 if he could put together a live big band program of "Cowboy Bebop" music for a set at Axelrad, Witt said no ...

Violinist Darol Anger literally had a dream, one in which he was performing his bluegrass music not with the David Grisman Quintet or another small group but in front of a full-fledged big band—and in ...

Idaho Falls, Idaho (KIFI) — On Thursday, October 23rd, the Jazz House Big Band will host "Swinging: The Great American Songbook" at the Frontier Center in Idaho Falls. Ticket sales will benefit the ...

The JAS Academy Big Band program led by Christian McBride will have a special performance at the 2025 JAS June Experience’s Rio Grande VIP Tent at 9 p.m. Friday, June 27, with guest artists José James ...