Smithsonian collection of recordings: RD 108 (additional numbers: RJ 0014; S25-17618). Continues the title: Big band jazz. Compact discs. Program notes by Bill Kirchner, with bibliography and index ...

Ask a music geek or a historian and they will probably tell you that the big-band era that was born with radio relay of the Benny Goodman band at L.A.'s Palomar Ballroom on Aug. 21, 1935, ended some ...

With a big band orchestra, singers and swing dancers, IN THE MOOD, is the retro 1940's musical that brings to the stage the music that moved a nation's spirit and helped win a war. More than a concert ...

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the very dance-oriented swinging music of the Big Bands was the most popular music around. Never had jazz been more central to mass culture. Just over the horizon ...

Hop aboard the "Chattanooga Choo Choo" and you'll soon be "In The Mood" to hear some great musicians "Sing, Sing, Sing." Much more than just a concert, In The Mood is a fully staged tribute to Glenn ...

As we continue our journey in the recent work of some of the most compelling jazz orchestras and big bands of today, and a few from the past that were so ahead of their time that their music still ...

NAMPA — No musical group personified the Big Band Era more than the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Its memorable hits from the 1940s like “In the Mood,” “Tuxedo Junction,” “Moonlight Serenade” and “That Old ...

Visitors to Historic Smithfield Plantation are familiar with being transported back in time, but those visiting on Sept. 21 won’t be going all the way back to 1774 as usual. On that day, they’ll only ...