“Big band music” isn’t everybody’s first thought when they’re pondering what to punch into Spotify, we’ll grant you that. But if all big bands make you think of is “jazz hands” and ...

The 35th annual Purdue Jazz Festival, hosted by Purdue Bands & Orchestras, brought together over 2,500 students from 81 schools across the Midwest for a week of performances, workshops, and ...

Photo Courtesy of Luis Luque, Luque Photography and The Soraya. People of all ages flooded the entrances to The Soraya’s “Jazz at Naz Festival” for Composer and Pianist Jason Moran’s collaboration ...

How a Big Band Leader and Composer Wrangles All the Moving Parts Darcy James Argue, bandleader for the 18-piece jazz band Secret Society, describes the many hats that he has to weave and wear.

Central High's Jazz Band won the 2025 "Essentially Ellington" High School Competition and Festival, which took place between May 7-11, 2025. This year was the 30th anniversary of the event, named ...

The Mile High Jazz Band, singer Jakki Ford, and six award-winning poets present "Sweet Charity,” an evening of big-band jazz and poetry, from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, at Gina's Good Life Music & ...

The future bandleader wasn’t even a bassist when John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer and co burst into his young life ...

Cleo Laine, whose husky contralto was one of the most distinctive voices in jazz and who was regarded by many as Britain's ...