Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s Wild & Swingin’ Holiday Party comes to the Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto. The band has been performing its take on American ...
He recruited the student players by hanging handmade ads around local music shops. Featuring upwards of 20 young players, the San Diego Youth Swing Band musicians included trumpeters Igmar ...
Justin Pearson (Struggle, the Locust) ended up forming a new record label, Three One G, to release music by both Swing Kids and Eric Allen's band Unbroken. “Unbroken was Struggle’s sister band ...
Each band had its own arranger, who wrote the music. Although there were still some improvised solos in swing music, playing the parts that were written by the arranger was very important.
Gordon Webster of Rochester is a keyboardist and bandleader known worldwide for his modern take on vintage swing music. His ...
It's good fit for a band like this," he said ... Dan Gabel and the Abletones which plays Swing era classics. "This is definitely a special era of music," Stabnau said. "For many it's nostalgia ...
Swingtime spotlights the women vocalists of the Big Band Era when the group meets Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 1 p.m. in the Fountain ...
Once more, the musicians of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra lived up to their Principal Pops Conductor John Morris Russell’s assessment: “These cats can swing.” And swing they did on ...