The Big Band News

The summer season is pretty much over, and the jazz calendar is little emptier this week, but there's still plenty of good stuff around town.

Bandleader and musical provocateur Carla Bley is the Hector Berlioz of jazz. Her command of her large ensembles is complete and potent.

The ninth annual Jazz in the Park festival takes place in Pontypool this coming weekend, Friday 5 to Sunday 7 September.

The Temecula Presents 2008-2009 season will feature a lineup of 26 world-class artists and 31 performances, including many artists and companies making their Old Town Temecula Community Theater or West Coast ...

The gigs are: Wednesday August 27th at 9 pm Big Band at Cecil's Thurday, August 28th at 8 pm Big Band at Sweet Rhythm SPECIAL MYSTERY GUEST ON THURSDAY Friday, August 29th at 8 pm Big Band at Puffin Foundation ...

An 83-member German band and choir ensemble is heading to Fowlerville next week, and members need a place to stay.

American singer-saxist Curtis Stigers is plenty more than the easy-listening artist he can be typecast as - as his last album, Real Emotional, proved by mixing originals and classics by the likes of Emmylou ...

George "Jazzbeaux" Spencer blew his trumpet, leading the Junius Courtney Big Band in the book stacks at the Berkeley Public Library on Saturday night.

Her talent puts this 'wildflower' of jazz in the same league as Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus.

Trips down memory lane often fail to generate much more than a nostalgic kind of jazz - but if there's anyone whose musical past is likely to be captivating, it is composer Carla Bley.

Sixty-two-year-old Mikhail Heybudin considers himself lucky. Employed full time as a handyman at the Hed College of Contemporary Music in Tel Aviv, the former Ukrainian has an aversion for romanticizing the ...

Gregorio Uribe fronts his 15-piece band as a singer and plays some percussion and accordion.

Anyone who heard the explosive band put together by multi-instrumentalist Arturo Sandoval shortly after he broke away from the seemingly indivisible Irakere would probably remember the ubiquitous young ...

It is a common practice to title an album after one of the pieces composed for and performed on the recording, sometimes attributing a special meaning or theme to the music.

TV Online Pam Noah featured at Big Band Night By Matt Warner Vocalist Pam Noah is hoping for blue skies, not stormy weather for her performance at Riverscape Metro Park's Big Band Nite on Thursday, Aug.

Join Chris Humphrey and his 15-piece band as he presents a concert of new and traditional swing and Big Band music to not only entertain the family but to benefit the continued cyclone relief efforts so ...

You've heard about exchange students, well, there are also exchange bands through the Blue Lake International Program.

Listen to a recording from a recent performance by the Monday Nite Big Band. Considering the near-deafening sound generated by an 18-piece swing jazz band, the idea that one could fly under the radar might ...

Don Vajgrt saw Frank Sinatra twice as a lad and owns 'every record he ever made,' but the Oshkosh resident is curious to see just how good Steve Lippia does Ol' Blue Eyes.

The Wiseguys Big Band will headline the Downey Chamber of Commerce's fifth annual oldies concert, taking place Nov.