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 ...

If you’re going to swing, do so with the group that built its reputation as one of the premiere big bands of the 20th Century. Add in a guest vocalist capturing the voices of some of the female ...

AUSTIN, Texas — It was called “big band” music back in the day: The smooth sounds of a large orchestra playing popular tunes designed to be danced to. In the 1940s, “big band” tunes were the dominant ...

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 ...