A memorable big band paid tribute to retiring FringeJazz promoter Jon Taylor and ebullient drummer Tony Orrell with a cracking night of jazz.

Chicago-based saxophonist Craig Roselieb will return to Maui to head up shows in Lahaina and Kihei, including a New Year’s ...

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 ...

When he was 12, Charles Hamilton saw Louis Armstrong on television—he thinks on The Ed Sullivan Show. That pivotal performance inspired him to tell his mother he wanted to play trumpet. It’s worked ...

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, ...

The Albany Jazz Band began 30 years ago as a hobbyist community practice group in Albany, California. In 2008, under new leadership, the band shifted toward a more serious performance focus. By 2013, ...

Brian Culbertson has scored hit singles on just about every Billboard chart there is. Culbertson, an Illinois-born pianist, bandleader and songwriter who performs at the Charleston Music Hall on Oct.

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 ...

Bohuslän Big Band is one of Northern Europe’s foremost big bands and an essential part of the Scandinavian jazz scene. The big band collaborates with national and international artists and composers ...

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