Billboard named her the most popular female band vocalist of 1939, and she was the first to record the classic "Over the Rainbow." By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Bea Wain, a hit-making pop vocalist in ...

Dolly Dawn, a big-band vocalist whose honey-sweet voice each noon, six days a week, bounced invitingly across America in the late 1930s and early ‘ 40s, died Dec. 11 at a nursing home in Englewood, ...

A note to those who feel, not without merit, that popular culture is getting so stiflingly politically correct and even “woke” that it is being strangled to death: In 1989, when I published my book ...

BRATTLEBORO — The 18-piece Vermont Jazz Center Big Band is excited to celebrate 20 years of music, and what better way to celebrate than by honoring the legacy of Count Basie. For this year’s annual ...

Many band singers during the war fell flat during this transition. Those who made the transition and triumphed included Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Jo Stafford, among others.

Like in so many other discussions about the history and culture of the United States, the contributions of Indigenous musicians to the quintessentially American art of jazz have long been neglected or ...

BENTON HARBOR — The Citadel Dance & Music Center presents “Fly Me to the Moon” at 8 p.m. Sept. 9 at LakeMichigan College’s Mendel Center, 2755 E. Napier Ave. The evening features the Lake Effect Jazz ...

BRATTLEBORO -- The Vermont Jazz Center will be swinging into the holiday season again with the fabulous sounds of the big band era presented by its own 17-piece big band accompanied by special guest ...

Mary Ann Russo, 75, a Toledo jazz band singer whose career began in childhood, died Monday in the Hospice of Northwest Ohio, Perrysburg Township. Her death followed a nine-month battle with lung ...

Dan Gabel and His Orchestra featuring Kimberly Hawkey perform new show "The American Big Band Experience" on April 6 in Mechanics Hall. The show coincides with the release of Dan Gabel and his ...