NEXT, WE HAVE A STORY OF SUCCESS DISAPPOINTS AND PERSEVERANCE. AWARD WINNING BOSTON JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR CARMEN FIELDS. NEW BOOK GOING BACK TO TEATOWN, THE JOURNEY FIELDS TERRITORY, BIG BAND IS ABOUT ...

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, ...

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 ...

A lot has been written about Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, musicians and bandleaders who soared from Shenandoah into musical immortality during the big band era. Together, and separately, the often feuding ...

Do you hanker for the great sounds of the Big Band era? Would you give your eye-tooth to once again dance to music of the greats such as Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman? Then, hanker no more. Every ...

Russ Carlyle, the Big Band-era orchestra leader-singer and author, was remembered Thursday as a kind man who made a point to help others. Carlyle, who enjoyed a long and storied career in music, died ...

In the Mood: The Big Band Era in the Bluegrass is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

A sell-out performance was held by the Rancho Santa Fe Big Band Swing Orchestra on Dec. 15 at the Secret Garden in the heart of Rancho Santa Fe. This jazz orchestra, in existence since 2001, continues ...

When Carmen Fields was a little girl, she wished her father would be like all the other dads who “came home with a briefcase at 5 o'clock every day.” But over time, she came to realize that Ernie ...

“The sixteen-member Prairie Winds Jazz ensemble brings the sounds and steps of the big band era to the historic Akron Opera ...