Gabel said he played at Mechanics Hall when he was a freshman in high school and returned there in 2010 for the Hall's Brown ...

Swing era and big band materials collected by C ... Newton's original scrapbook of their "Shag" dance championship, 1939-1940, and photographs. Materials collected by George T. Simon, Musician, music ...

Swing music became popular around the world and the UK developed its own big bands. The audio clip below is of Lew Stone and his band, who were one of the most successful British big bands of the ...

(WWLP) – The Big Broadcast ... of a 1940s radio variety show. It also features jazz ensembles performing popular tunes from the Swing Era. “Going back to the 1940s and hearing this music ...

Stapleton resident Russ Anixter and his Hippie Big Band recently released their first album, “What Is?”, an eclectic collection of big-band arrangements of rock, jazz and blues songs running the gamut ...

Formed in 1975 by musicians from the Belgian Club Band in Winnipeg, the Executive Big Band has played all kinds of events in ...