The Ed Palermo Big Band Delivers an Entrancing Tribute to Legendary Texas Blues/Jazz Multi-Instrumentalist Edgar Winter with I’ve Got News For You: The Music of Edgar Winter. An Instrumental and Vocal ...

Mingus Big Band has to play something akin to Russian roulette to avoid becoming just another repertory band; Mingus’ music demands an element of desperation and reckless abandon to be done justice.

Three recent albums are muscling the big band jazz tradition into the new decade, each in its own way. On Bluesville, New York City's Swingadelic focuses on the bluesy side of big band music. The Jim ...

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 ...

Wine-O-Baby Boogie; B&O Blues; Rocket Boogie "88" - Part I; Old Piney Brown's Gone; Baby, Won't You Marry Me; Skid Row Boogie; Christmas Date Boogie ; Radar Blues; Tell Me Pretty Baby; Rocket Boogie ...