Harry James News

For a quarter-century, Mike Barone provided arrangements for Doc Severinsen 's NBC-TV Tonight Show Band , but these were seldom heard by anyone except the studio audiences for the actual telecasts .

Wigston: Making a return visit to Wigston Liberal Club, Chris Stanbury gave a programme which demonstrated both his skill as an organist, and his ability to please, with an excellent variety of sounds.

THE bandleader announced "a lovely ballad from the World War II era," and the song "Waiting for the Train to Come In" emerged from the lips of a singer in a slinky black dress.

The Pittsburgh Area Theatre Organ Society is presenting a special concert, featuring trumpeter Skip Stine with the Harry James, Si Zenter and Buddy Morrow Bands.

Get out your dancing shoes - or at least your toe-tapping ones if you don't dance anymore.

Bringing the finest music to Beckley since 1938, the Beckley Concert Association will kick off its 71st season this month.

Chris M. Slawecki has been published in music industry and related publications for nearly 25 years and has served AllAboutJazz.com as Senior Editor since 1997.

The Hot Tomatoes Dance Orchestra and two professional swing dance couples will descend on Lionshead's Vail Square in Vail, Colorado on Thursday evening for a free concert that includes swing dance lessons.

HYDE PARK - The Big Band Sound will perform at 7 p.m. Wednesday on the lawn of the Vanderbilt Mansion.

Once an exclusive hideaway for Hollywood's finest, the Inn Suites Hotel is now a San Diego landmark.

ENTERTAINERS So Sinatra couldn't moondance 'Michael Jackson was the greatest entertainer that ever lived,' so I heard record producer Berry Gordy declare.

The music of the big bands will fill the air at Fairbanks Park as the "Battle of the Big Bands II" returns Saturday.

CARL WILSON H By Elijah Wald Oxford University Press, 323 pages, $24.95US When Elvis Presley made his first appearance on Milton Berle's then-must-see-TV variety show in April, 1956, the other guests were Harry James and Buddy Rich, two big-band musicians.

The Brett Family Singers will wrap up the 2008-09 Morgan County Premier Concert series at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Martinsville High School, even as organizers are heading toward a crucial ticket sales deadline for the 2009-10 season.