Big-Band News

President Obama presented the Gershwin Prize to a singer-songwriter he called "the one and only Carole King " at a Washington ceremony Wednesday night.

Memorial Day 2013-the unofficial kick-off for summer-is Monday, May 27, but concerts, fireworks and other events last all of Memorial Day weekend throughout DC and Northern Virginia.

Graduates of Reading Southern Junior High/Middle School are invited to the Southern Alumni Association's reunion May 31.

Bill Holman is a man with many milestones. Known primarily for years of unique and complex arrangements, Holman's continuing and long-running career as a composer and saxophonist reaches another milestone this month when he will be awarded the title of NEA Jazz Master.

Dean Adams, director of the Ventura Jazz Orchestra, plays a song as part of the Friday night jazz hour for residents of Los Robles Care Center in Ojai.

It was almost exactly a year ago that the Detroit Symphony Orchestra hired violinist Yoonshin Song as its concertmaster.

Tickets go on sale for Lincoln Center 's Midsummer Night Swing starting Wednesday, May 22.

Rather like the swirling cameras employed by directors of BBC Two's Later, Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra is increasingly revolving around the diminutive figure in black rather than featuring him as a main player.

Two Concerts Of Video Games Live! , Battleship Potemkin Film, And Classical Concerts Are Highlights Of Summer and The Symphony With San Francisco Symphony Orchestra performs free concerts at Stern Grove Festival and in Dolores Park and presents annual Fourth of July concert with fireworks at Shoreline Amphitheatre; Orchestra to perform at America's ... (more)

For their second major performance at a Salt Lake area venue, Luna Lune once again provided an extravaganza for all ages at the historic Murray Theater on State Street.

As part of the "A Moment in Time" Series, The Capitol Center Orchestra, under the direction of Clayton J. Poole, will pay tribute to Count Basie today, May 19th at 4:00pm. The tribute features drummer and Basie alumnus Butch Miles.

Legendary signer/songwriter Carole King will be honored as the first woman recipient of The Gershwin Award May 22 at The White House .

I'm hereby outing myself as a raving heterosexual Musical Theater fan, with particular adoration for the legendary Semitic composers and lyricists of the Great White Way.

Amid sequester and scandal in Washington, the White House announced Friday that the president and first lady will be hosting another concert as part of their "In Performance at the White House" series later this month.

PAYING TRIBUTE: The late Count Basie, a jazz pianist, organist, bandleader and composer, led his big-band orchestra for nearly 50 years.

An outdoor concert event, "Jazz Under the Stars," will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 14, in the courtyard at Manville High School.

New Horizon Theater Inc. held it's annual Special Event May 4 at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater.

Broken. Boarded up. A blight! Hundreds of thousands drive by it every week, so why hasn't the city done anything about the eyesore that is the Spanish Trail Motel? It's an historic site marked with decades of memories followed by years of neglect.

By any measure, what happened at Glasgow's City Halls over the weekend was an astonishing event, with a sizeable thirsty audience lapping up experimental music that ranged from a residency by a remarkable octogenarian American to improvisation by some of our own top names in modern rock and embraced a clutch of premieres of fine new music for the ... (more)

In anticipation of the upcoming big band concert featuring a new arrangement of “Porgy and Bess,” Jazz Artists of Charleston is presenting its third JAC Talk on Thursday at Redux Contemporary Art Center, 136 St.