Benny Goodman News

Savion Glover's got a brand new bag - or rather, since the 39-year-old star is all about roots, a venerable old bag that he has refurbished.

Berkshires Jazz, Inc. today announced the second annual Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend, bringing marquee performers and local jazz musicians to downtown Lee, Massachusetts, July 25-28.

The free concert held at Buttermilk Creek Park, takes place from 7-8:30 p.m. The band's founder, bass violinist Mark Hembree of Oconomowoc, is a professional musician who has performed with top musicians like Bill Monroe and Randy Travis.

Herman Leonard captured it all, but one wonders if he planned on capturing the viewer's presence as it's reflected in the glass.

Details: Barefoot Productions seeks actors for its summer production, "Hallelujah Girls" by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten.

Three exceptional clarinetists and the Midwest's talented Chicago Jazz Orchestra reminded Ravinia Festival audiences why the music of Benny Goodman still excites jazz and big band lovers decades after the "king of swing's" quartet drew a record attendance in 1973.

Johnny Smith, a jazz guitarist whose luscious tone, understated versatility and exemplary swinging style brought him a half-century of acclaim and whose composition "Walk, Don't Run" became a surf-rock hit for the Ventures in the 1960s, died June 11 at his home in Colorado Springs, Colo.

It's Father's Day weekend - and instead of another tie, Weekend Edition Saturday is getting a slice of New Jersey Pizzarelli.

Highlights from the concert include: Benny Goodman: The King of Swing; The Wrong Note Rag; Recorded By Sinatra; The Big Four March and several other stirring marches.

The 20th annual Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival moves into its second weekend with seven concerts over the next four days.

Two images sit with me as I write I write this: A woman covered by a blue and white prayer shawl surrounded by angry faces.

The Concerts on the Waterfront series has a twist - with a shimmy, a samba and more moves thrown in - this year.

Gene Krupa left Benny Goodman to form a band that played nothing but killer-dillers, the fiery numbers like "Sing, Sing, Sing that caused riots at the Paramount.

Spirit has many ways of expressing itself. One of those channels of expression occurs through music; the melodic, harmonic, rhythmic voice of our soul, reflecting years of feelings and experiences.

Actor Courtney B. Vance read remarks honoring each inductee at Tuesday's ceremony at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in New York City.

Susie McKenna , Creative Director at Hackney Empire , directs Blues in the Night on Sunday 14 July 2013 at 2.30pm and 7.30pm .

As we draw closer to British composer Benjamin Britten's 100th birthday this coming November 22, we are likely to encounter an increasing number of opportunities to listen to his music, both in performance and on recording.

Eastern philosophy is not the first thing one associates with the Disneyland Resort, but the message of the Fantasyland Theatre's new and quite splendid stage show "Mickey and the Magical Map" is decidedly, and surprisingly, Zen.

On May 30th, the great Benny Goodman would have turned 100. The celebration of this milestone continues with the release of some excellent archival material, as well as a wonderful tribute album from one of the clarinet legend's most avid followers.

May 30--For the 28th year, Oklahoma City will celebrate Charlie Christian's legacy in the most fitting way possible: with and through music.