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 ...

READ MORE: Christmas music legends to perform in ... chance for the public to enjoy their swing and jazz repertoire (Image: The Clive Fortune Big Band) However, this concert offers a rare chance ...

Servant Stage Company will have a Dickens of a season in 2025. “We definitely have a strong literary theme running, and we’ve ...

Step into the jump-and-jive world of the Pittsburgh Swing Dance Community, which celebrates Lindy Hop, Balboa, West Coast Swing and more.

The Gordon Dooley Dance Orchestra Music includes the complete scores and parts for the arrangements used by The Gordon Dooley Orchestra. The parts, stored by arrangement in book order, include 182 ...

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.

He was also influenced by the music his African-American friends sang in the cotton fields and later by Hispanic musicians in New Mexico. And he was influenced by “swing” music—an offshoot ...

“And we’ll have an eight-piece swing band” and a cast of about 20 singers ... so it has this very cinematic feel to it, with live music,” he adds. The production will tour venues around ...