The First Class Big Band started making music 34 years ago. The only way to hear its music was to see the band live — until ...

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 ...

Jazz pianist Finn Murphy never saw a performance at the legendary Cellar Door nightclub at 34th and M streets in D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood — in fact, his parents weren’t even of drinking age when ...

As anyone who’s recently attended a show by Foreigner or Lynyrd Skynyrd knows, it’s become as common as a guitar solo to see a classic rock & roll outfit without any original members in the lineup.

The Duke Street Big Band is one of London's premier big bands. Founded in 2011, the band was set up to bring Jazz and big band music to a wider audience. When we're not playing at private parties you ...

A so-called “big band” in jazz has a particular definition. Usually it means 17 or more musicians: four trumpets, three or four trombones, four or five saxophones, plus a rhythm section of piano, bass ...