LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Big Star released two albums in the early ‘70s, neither of which set sales records. Yet in the 35 years that have ensued, artists like R.E.M., Wilco, The Replacements, Teenage ...

The Pony Boy All-Star Big Band 2024 is a conglomeration of the best professional musicians in the Pacific Northwest.Their newest release This Is Now (2024 Pony Boy Records) highlights new music ...

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 ...

That began to change 50 years ago today. On Monday, Feb. 7, 1966, in a pie-shaped basement 15 steps below 7th Avenue in Manhattan, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra made its debut at the ...

Swing Era New York. By W. Royal Stokes (1994) 3. Charles Peterson took thousands of photos of jazz musicians in New York during the 1930s and ’40s.

Back in Time, the second album from up and coming jazz trumpeter and vocalist Ilya Serov, is now available on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, CD Baby, GooglePlay and Apple Music.. Serov's homage to the ...

Big Band Jazz: Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast dancers with layers of ... Listen to songs chosen by people who consider her a north star. 5 Minutes to Make You Love Jazz: ...

This is swing music — no matter what some ska band might tell you later in life — and Benny Goodman knew how to mesh jazz flair with classical stylings into a rambunctious good time.

With his big band in particular, Mr. McBride likes to acknowledge that he was as profoundly influenced by 1960s and ’70s style funk as he was by jazz, James Brown and Maceo Parker in particular. He ...