Maui’s Chop Suey Jazz Orchestra and the Na Ali‘i Big Band will celebrate the holidays with a free show at The Shops at Wailea ...

NEW YORK — Birdcalls, English horn, vibraphone and iPhone provided some of the strange and mesmerizing sounds that the intrepid John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble brought to the Jazz Standard on Tuesday ...

Bob Florence Limited Edition / Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band / Dana Legg Stage Band / John Burnett Swing Orchestra article by Jack Bowers, published on August 3, 2009 at All About Jazz. Find more ...

John Burnett, an Englishman who now lives and works (as a morning host at WDCB Radio) in suburban Chicago, is a great admirer of the golden age of big bands in the U.S., which spanned roughly three ...

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 ...

Ray Conniff, the Grammy Award-winning composer and bandleader whose arrangements epitomized the Big Band sound while spawning such albums as "S'Wonderful" and "Somewhere My Love," has died. He was 85.

Ray Conniff, the Grammy Award-winning arranger and bandleader whose arrangements continued and modernized the Big Band sound while spawning such albums as "'SWonderful" and "Somewhere My Love," has ...