Big-Band News

Say goodbye to wheezy, cheesy brass and sax sounds. By Marty Cutler That's why we've compiled this roundup.

The producers of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" on Broadway informed group sales ticket agents on Thursday that the run of the musical, which had been scheduled to end July 8, would extend through Sept.

This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents a Valentine's Day concert of classic love songs side by side with soundtrack clips of love scenes from the films that made them popular hits.

Ron Sunshine and His Orchestra will be at the Allentown Jewish Community Center at 7 p.m. Feb.

American Cancer Society Discover Shop will celebrate Valentine's Day from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb.

It's awards season and I'd like to suggest two vocalists from the Big Band era for recognition for their extraordinary service to the nation and to the rest of the free world.

The Chattanooga Symphony and Opera's Big Band Orchestra will host its annual Big Band Fever event, in honor and celebration of big band music, Feb.

The events will be held Thursday and Friday in the Music Building's Staples Family Concert Hall, Platcha Auditorium and the Bovee University Center Down Under Food Court, featuring different types of jazz including swing, big band and group performances.

Bernadette Peters, Michael Feinstein Bernadette Peters regularly gets the attention of the Tony Awards; in 2003 she received her seventh nomination.

Whatever else one chooses to say about it , 2006 was a banner year for big bands, at least on record.

The Carihi Jazz Band joins The Little Big Band this Friday for a Valentine's Dance at Carihi.

EAMES - played by Tom Hardy; "Inception" 23. DON LOCKWOOD - played by Gene Kelly; "Singin' in the Rain" 22.

Texas State's School of Music put on a concert Friday night in memory of Eddie Durham, one of the pioneers of jazz music.

This new show, under the aegis of the Gershwin estate, attempts to transform it into musical theater-into, in other words, just plain , deemphasizing both the high-cultural trappings and the lowly dialect of the denizens of Catfish Row, and with the recitative turned into book scenes by Pulitzer-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.

A Andrew Burnap of South Kingstown was 8 years old when he stepped into his first role.

Scotty Barnhart The World of Jazz Trumpet: A Comprehensive History and Practical Philosophy Hal Leonard Corporation 320 pages, softcover ISBN: 0-634-09527-7 2005 Trumpeter Scotty Barnhart answers the question in his book, along with much insightful commentary about the way things have developed.

Think about that for a second. Sixty years ago, it was the beginning of 1952. A Canadian lawyer had just been sworn in as Governor General.

The pairing of rising star Lizz Wright with the venerable Count Basie Orchestra made for a powerful dialectic between soulful ballads with a backup of two guitars and a rhythm section versus the fast-paced, swinging energy of the Basie band.

Columns like "Bailey's Bundles" enable me to address more music, hopefully providing the submitting artists the consideration and exposure they, and the reading/listening public desire.

The economic model for the touring jazz big band has broken down since the days of Duke Ellington and Count Basie.