Today most big bands are part-time affairs, with leaders writing most if not all of the charts. These arrangements provide each band with its own musical personality, with the writing slightly more ...

1980s R&B was defined by a myriad of sounds: from the crossover dance pop of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, to the digital funk of The Time and Cameo, to the smoother adult contemporary fare ...

Sixty-six years ago, this world we live in was much different. Hundreds of big bands played music that was melodic and swinging. Couples even touched when they danced. While catchy novelty tunes ...

Artie Shaw, who rose to fame as one of the swing era’s finest bandleaders and most innovative clarinetists but then slammed the door on the music business with a Shakespearean flourish, died Thursday.

(ThyBlackMan.com) When people talk about late ‘80s and early ‘90s R&B, Al B. Sure! doesn’t always get the credit he deserves—but he should. With that unmistakable falsetto, slick production, and a ...

Mora’s Modern Rhythmists have the look and the manner of a band tapped into the recent swing-revival fad. And when the curtain went up for their program at CSUN’s Performing Arts Center on ...

This article originally appeared on Kveller. Printed in black and white and bigotry all over, Nazi official Hans Severus Ziegler’s brochure for his public exhibit in Dusseldorf featured an African ...