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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

FOND DU LAC — From the sounds of big-band music to a book sale, you're sure to find some entertainment in the coming week. The Lighthouse Big Band will play March 26 while the AAUW book sale runs ...