The strings go zing-zinging on Professor Visits Harlem. Quite unlike any other anthology you're likely to have run into of late, we're treated to three decades of jazz string ensembles, starting off ...
Sixty-six years ago, this world we live in was much different. Hundreds of big bands played music that was melodic and swinging. Couples even touched when they danced. While catchy novelty tunes ...
The Pawhuska Western Swing Festival honors country music legend Hank Thompson's 100th birthday with performances by local and ...
LEESBURG — Bud Pearson has amassed a jazz collection of more than 5,000 albums — not to mention CDs and cassettes — that he wants to share. But the 71-year-old retiree, who has been host for an ...
Jack Pierce, in glasses, stands outside the 7701 st U.S. Army Europe (USAREUR) Band School barracks at Dachau, Germany, in 1951. Courtesy photo Jack Pierce’s JP’s Swing Band brought the “big band” ...
Becker’s partnership with Donald Fagen, with whom he created Steely Dan, has left a legacy of music which seems destined to be at least as imperishable as the classic jazz and soul artists who ...
The fifth annual Cowtown Birthplace of Western Swing Festival will call downbeat at noon Nov. 6, drawing attendees from near ...
How does a Christmas song make its way into that elite canon of overly familiar tunes that play on a loop in every public space each December? How does “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” get ...