Brian Culbertson has scored hit singles on just about every Billboard chart there is. Culbertson, an Illinois-born pianist, bandleader and songwriter who performs at the Charleston Music Hall on Oct.

The Jazz Rock Big Band, UMass Lowell’s premier large jazz ensemble, will be performing contemporary big band jazz on Thursday, April 11 at 8 p.m. in Durgin Concert Hall. Featured on the program will ...

From its inception in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jazz was considered the only true American art form. Its sound is a melting pot of musical influences, incorporating remnants of ragtime, ...

For one of the few big band jazz groups in the region, it’s all about keeping the music alive and well. The origins of The Dues Band stem from founder Alan Hirayama wanting to create a musical ...

A Grammy-winning pianist, he was renowned for works that created “new ideas about line, harmony, rhythm, sound and musical ...

It was all in the music, baby. Last month, a team of judges led by jazz giant Wynton Marsalis selected NC Central University’s jazz studies program as the top college jazz band in the country. But it ...

When big band jazz musicians settle into their seats, most of the music on their stands is composed and arranged by men. Alan Baylock, the director of the University of North Texas One O’clock Lab ...

The Smoot House Band will present a Big Band Jazz program on Sunday at the Smoot Theatre in downtown Parkersburg. (Photo courtesy of Bo Wriston) PARKERSBURG — The Smoot Theatre in downtown Parkersburg ...

Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan filled the Thorpe Langley Auditorium for the annual Tri-State Band and Jazz Band Festival.

To learn more about Big Wy's Brass Band, visit www.bigwysbrassband.com. Music Prize will kick off Friday, Oct. 17, with five ...

Through the dim and smoky atmosphere of the Manhattan jazz den called Birdland came some old and familiar piano tones. The holiday crowd quieted and the music took over, its tones pure and glassy, its ...