POTTSVILLE — The M&J Big Band of Pottsville is “swinging into 2025” with “energy, passion and a full slate of performances” as it celebrates its 15th anniversary “of delivering the iconic sounds of ...

The popular music of several decades ago required many instruments, hence the name “big band era.” Today, bandwidth increase is again a sign of the times. The explosion of Internet usage, ...

The Big Band Alumni is a 17-piece big band that features some musicians that are graduates of the greatest big bands of all time like Benny Goodman, Harry James, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Count Basie ...

The Big Band era is alive and well for a group of local musicians whose taste for jazz drew them to one another, and into the Calumet Ridge Jazz Ensemble. For trumpet player Tony Barenie, "there's ...

Harold V. May is perhaps best remembered in the Berkshires as an industrial inventor. But he had a musical ear, and in the heyday of the jazzy, bluesy, danceable Big Band Era of the late 1920s and ...

CUTLINES - The Starlight Band opens its 67th season Tuesday with its 20-member Jazz Orchestra performing "Greatest Hits of the Big Band Era." ...

GREEN LAKE – Fox Cities Swing Band will perform a free holiday concert at 1 p.m. Dec. 14 at the Thrasher Opera House in Green Lake, according to a community announcement. The volunteer-managed band ...