Today most big bands are part-time affairs, with leaders writing most if not all of the charts. These arrangements provide each band with its own musical personality, with the writing slightly more ...

The Sweet & Hot Quartet will perform at MSU’s Charles H. Templeton Ragtime and Jazz Festival March 25th and 26th. (Submitted photo) STARKVILLE, Miss.—“If you don’t feel it, you’ll never know it,” ...

For decades Benny Goodman and his clarinet popped up just about everywhere, and when they did, just about everyone knew it. Goodman, who would have turned 100 on May 30, defined for most people the ...

When the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing, so was swing dance. A century later, “Swing!” celebrates the music and the moves of this era of jazz. The musical, featuring well-known songs by artists ...

1980s R&B was defined by a myriad of sounds: from the crossover dance pop of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, to the digital funk of The Time and Cameo, to the smoother adult contemporary fare ...

BOYLSTON - Enjoy a high-energy evening of Swing Era music, featuring local talent The Beantown Swing Orchestra, Wednesday, Aug. 17, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill.

Artie Shaw, who rose to fame as one of the swing era’s finest bandleaders and most innovative clarinetists but then slammed the door on the music business with a Shakespearean flourish, died Thursday.

The former Manor Inn in Rensselaer, now home to Casey's Restaurant, was a popular destination for music fans during the swing era. Circa-1940 entertainment and restaurant advertisements in the Times ...

Mora’s Modern Rhythmists have the look and the manner of a band tapped into the recent swing-revival fad. And when the curtain went up for their program at CSUN’s Performing Arts Center on ...