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 ...

On Oct. 24, the United States Navy Band Commodores will bring their renowned jazz ensemble to the Theater at Innovation Square for a free concert starting at 7:30 p.m. The Navy's premier big band jazz ...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS − The United States Navy Band Commodores jazz ensemble will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Performing Arts Center of Wisconsin Rapids. The concert is part of the ...

For one of the few big band jazz groups in the region, it’s all about keeping the music alive and well. The origins of The Dues Band stem from founder Alan Hirayama wanting to create a musical ...

We’re talking free jazz, an experiment in improvisational music that captivated the world’s greatest jazz musicians in the ...

Syracuse’s biggest jazz party returns for its 39th edition this week. The 2025 Syracuse International Jazz Festival runs from June 25-29 with a lineup that includes New Orleans great Trombone Shorty, ...

From its inception in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jazz was considered the only true American art form. Its sound is a melting pot of musical influences, incorporating remnants of ragtime, ...

Believe it or not, Deep Ellum used to be a jumpin’ spot for jazz. Back in the 1920s and ’30s, bars such as the Gypsy Tea Room, The Gay Paree and Sambuca Jazz Club were frequented by Texas legends such ...

Violinist Darol Anger literally had a dream, one in which he was performing his bluegrass music not with the David Grisman Quintet or another small group but in front of a full-fledged big band—and in ...

It’s truly impressive when you can listen to one musician for more than 40 years and still hear something new. Paquito D’Rivera has been a major figure in the worlds of modern jazz, afro cuban jazz, ...

A Grammy-winning pianist, he was renowned for works that created “new ideas about line, harmony, rhythm, sound and musical architecture,” one admirer wrote. By Richard Sandomir Jim McNeely, a Grammy ...