Beats & Pieces is not your average big band, rather a band that's big. These 14 musicians have been playing together for over ten years and have become a tight knit bunch, open to a huge diversity of ...
Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast young dancers with layers of rhythm, but creative composers seeking a larger canvas have kept the form alive. Hear 12 big selections. By Giovanni ...
The University Jazz Band, Jazz Lab Band, and Jazz Ensemble played music inspired by the legendary Count Basie at the joint ...
The Big Band Tradition has its roots in a small band founded by Christ Congregational Church members in the early 1970’s. That band performed at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. for the National ...
It’s an oft-stated but hard-to-believe statistic: The global video game industry generates more revenue than the music and film industries combined. With each passing year, a greater share of the ...
Right from the jump, the horns hit with crisp urgency, heralding the arrival of Igmar Thomas' Revive Big Band at the Tiny Desk. This is not your grandparents' — or even your great-grandparents' — big ...
Dan Gabel and His Orchestra featuring Kimberly Hawkey perform new show "The American Big Band Experience" on April 6 in Mechanics Hall. The show coincides with the release of Dan Gabel and his ...
Matthew Herbert's last proper full-length, 2001's exceptional Bodily Functions, mixed squishy vocal house music with acoustic jazz instrumentals. The occasionally jarring transitions between the house ...
GameCentral speaks to the composer of The 8-Bit Big Band, about the current state of video game music and his upcoming show in London. Back in 2022 we did a short news article on a jazz influenced ...