The Big Easy are a Midlands based 5-piece jazz/blues band. Comprising; Dave Lines--lead vox, sax, guitar... Carl Sinclair--lead vox, keyboards... Rod Boatswain--lead ...

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, ...

The Topeka Jazz Workshop Big Band held its annual performance Sunday evening at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public ...

Paul Carr and company at Blues Alley; courtesy of Paul Carr 2024 is the “Year of the Big Band,” according to the good folks at the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, and aren’t they the experts on these ...

Every other month, the Owl N’ Thistle Irish Pub features something rarely encountered in dive bars: a 17-piece jazz big band.

Big bands. Considered at all today by music lovers, most think of Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Hall “Sing, Sing, Sing” concert or variations thereof, with blaring brass, frantic solos and manic drummers ...

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 ...

Big Chief Brian Harrison Nelson wants to draw a line through more than 100 years’ worth of New Orleans music and Black Masking Indian traditions with his New Orleans Jazz & Heritage set on Thursday, ...