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 ...

In the late 1950s and 1960s, writes Iain Anderson, “free jazz” and its practitioners aroused a range of emotions in jazz’s large audience. “A cursory examination of reader letters published in Down ...

Saturday may mark the final performance of the Original Wildcat Jass Band. Fans of the six-member group need not worry. The band is staying together, but leader Rob Wright said he’s so sick of people ...

Danilo Pérez and Swedish jazz orchestra, Bohuslan Big Band collaborate on the new album Lumen, where Pan-American rhythms meet the Nordic big band sound. The album, characterized by improvisation and ...

Over my too many years of attending the Chicago Jazz Festival, I’ve been most excited by two types of sets. The fest sometimes gives us a rare (hopefully not last) chance to see a legendary elder of ...

With seven big bands including the award-winning Purdue Jazz Band, jazz vocalists, and a thriving combo scene, the Purdue Jazz program prides itself on musical excellence, offering an incredible ...

Watching the Queen's Cartoonists perform live is a spectacle. There are cartoons, alongside jazz, a wide range of musical instruments, noise-making props and on-stage shenanigans. The band performs ...

The traditional New Orleans and Chicago sounds of the Original Wildcat Jass Band are featured outdoors at Tohono Chul Park in the Tucson Jazz Society's ongoing Friday night series Jazz Under the Stars ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Editor's note: The attached video above is from an unrelated story about Cake Walkin' Jass Band from Aug. 3, 2018. Toledo's oldest New Orleans style jazz band will perform at the Toledo ...

The Sound of the North Big Band is made up of some of the UK's finest young jazz musicians. The band plays only original compositions and arrangements, and was shortlisted for the MBF's Peter ...

It’s impossible to overstate Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s dedication to the alchemy of their lineage—but the long-running group does much more than sustain the buoyant brass sound that distinguishes ...