The Big Band Era (roughly 1935 to 1945) witnessed the emergence of jazz music into the American mainstream at a time, according to Metronome magazine in 1943, "as important to American music as the time of Emerson and Thoreau and Whitman and...

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the Swing Era from the early 1930s until the late 1940s. A big band typically consists of approximately 12 to 25 musicians and contains...

FRIDAY'S "BATTLE of the Big Bands" -- the last of three free summer concerts that the Weekend section is sponsoring at the Carter Barron Amphitheatre -- is actually less all-out battle than all-out celebration of big bands, swing music and classic tunes, featuring two...

JASON CRANE, MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-12-2007 Big band in the swing -- Marsalis orchestra defies the odds By JASON CRANE, MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Date: 10-12-2007, Friday Section: BETTER LIVING Edtion: All Editions WHO: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra...

A belated swinging 70th birthday party with an all-star guest list is planned for Nancy Wilson at this year's JVC Jazz Festival.The pop-jazz songstress, who turned 70 on Feb. 20, won her third Grammy Award earlier this year in the category of best jazz vocal...

John McHugh and Maggie Lee expect about 50 people at their wedding Friday. Their wedding reception could draw more than 4 million. The La Crosse couple decided to forgo hiring a band or DJ and let Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. provide the...

During the big band era were also a handful of all-female bands. The Harlem Harlicans, formed by Lil Armstrong in 1932, Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears, the Parisian Redheads and others were famous in their time, yet none survived history as the International Sweethearts Of Rhythm. Their story is a complex one. The band was the first integrated female band, and the most famous female band of their time .