BRATTLEBORO — The 18-piece Vermont Jazz Center Big Band is excited to celebrate 20 years of music, and what better way to celebrate than by honoring the legacy of Count Basie. For this year’s annual ...
On Thursday, October 23rd, the Jazz House Big Band will host "Swinging: The Great American Songbook" at the Frontier Center ...
Like in so many other discussions about the history and culture of the United States, the contributions of Indigenous musicians to the quintessentially American art of jazz have long been neglected or ...
A note to those who feel, not without merit, that popular culture is getting so stiflingly politically correct and even “woke” that it is being strangled to death: In 1989, when I published my book ...
Many band singers during the war fell flat during this transition. Those who made the transition and triumphed included Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Jo Stafford, among others.
Dolly Dawn, a big-band vocalist whose honey-sweet voice each noon, six days a week, bounced invitingly across America in the late 1930s and early ‘ 40s, died Dec. 11 at a nursing home in Englewood, ...
BRATTLEBORO -- The Vermont Jazz Center will be swinging into the holiday season again with the fabulous sounds of the big band era presented by its own 17-piece big band accompanied by special guest ...
Dan Gabel and His Orchestra featuring Kimberly Hawkey perform new show "The American Big Band Experience" on April 6 in Mechanics Hall. The show coincides with the release of Dan Gabel and his ...
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