Artie Shaw News

Plans are well under way to make next year's Integrity Jazz Festival the biggest and best yet, and a charitable organization is once again helping to bring the classic American musical style to Minot.

Dinner and a jazz show in a cozy lounge is a perfect way to spend a rainy Sunday evening, or a weekend night out with friends! Scullers Jazz Club is located in the Doubletree Guest Suites-Boston on 400 Soldiers Field Road, at the corner of the Mass Pike and Storrow Drive.

On the eve of America's entry into World War II, Time magazine reported that in the eyes of the German masses, the United States meant "skyscrapers, Clark Gable and Artie Shaw." Nearly 70 years later - and five years after Shaw's death at 94 - his big band sounds resonate with those who remember them well - and with a new generation just learning ...

When Franklin Cohen, the principal clarinetist of the Cleveland Orchestra, was to be featured playing Mr.

A pianist and a cornetist will revisit the musical sounds that made their mark at Richmond's Gennett Recording Studios during the Starr-Gennett Foundation Legacy Concert.

TEAMWORK Parlatoa TMs group sound is as distinctive as her singing. If fans plan shrewdly next Thursday , they can hear jazz singing at its best in two completely different styles.

Free Movie Nights with "Lady Day," "The Duke," and Charlie "Bird" Parker! Make Tuesday the new Friday and join the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center for the first 'Scenes Through the Cinema Lens" on October 20 at 7:30! An original retrospective focusing on the performing arts in film, this years series will highlight several of the great ...

Day four of the fest. Note to selves: Never consume vast quantities of smoked meat, dill pickles and vodka after 1 a.m. It makes for unsettling dreams.

Roni Stoneman stood at the Gennett Walk of Fame in the Whitewater Gorge Park Friday afternoon and cried.

If you're unfamiliar with trumpeter Don Fagerquist [pictured], that's about to change.

Scott Yanow's liner notes to An Old Soul sketch a quick survey of contemporary big bands, observing that, in this era of drastically diminished returns in the jazz world, big band leaders are increasingly drawn from studios and academia, making performer-leaders rare to non-existent. Arranger-led big bands may make for groups that reflect one ...

Cannes regular Hugh Hefner is bringing his Playboy party to the Toronto International Film Festival.

ZEKE Zarchy, who found fame and fortune as a lead trumpeter in the swing era and was celebrated for his long association with bandleader Glenn Miller, has died, aged 93.

The Alton Symphony Orchestra Pops and Jazz Concert returns to entertain audiences with familiar Broadway favorites and a guest program with a jazzy twist.