Community members are invited to spend Memorial Day evening enjoying the sounds of live big band music at Sweet Arrow Lake.

When Jim Zollers was a teenager, he regularly went to concerts at the SunnyBrook Ballroom in Lower Pottsgrove Township. He pressed up against the stage to watch some of his idols like Woody Herman, ...

The Mingus Big Band celebrates the music of composer/bassist Charles Mingus, who died in 1979. Under the artistic direction of Sue Mingus, this 14-piece band performed Thursday MBBnights from 1991 to ...

This is a great weekend for RVA big band music. On Friday night, local legend Doug Richards leads Laura Ann Singh and his ensemble in a Virginia Commonwealth University performance including his ...

The first big band concert of the season for the Thompson Jazz Studies Program will feature a couple of familiar faces in new roles—along with new twists on old, familiar tunes. On Thursday, Oct. 12, ...

The West Virginia coalfields would seem an unlikely place to hear Big Band jazz during the Great Depression. But research by Christopher Wilkinson, a professor of music history at West Virginia ...

Josh Duffee still remembers the first concert his orchestra performed 25 years ago in downtown Moline. Duffee organized the ...

Dan Pugach is an Israeli-born, New York-based drummer who doubles (quite well) as composer and arranger on Bianca, his second recording for Outside In Music. Pugach anchors a splendid big band ...

Well before the music starts, every seat on the capacious back deck at the Bluegill Restaurant is occupied. And they’re going to stay that way for the next few hours – except when people get up to ...

Among musicians, many of whom like nothing better than swapping stories about their heroes, the Duke Ellington Orchestra was almost as famous for its feuds as its extraordinary music. In some cases, ...