It was the golden age of big band again Saturday as the San Clemente Rotary Club presented its 21st annual Big Band Swing Night dinner-dance, a benefit for Rotary charities. The Mike Henebry Orchestra ...

Tom and Barbara Henderson, of Hadley, West Coast Swing to the music of the O-Tones at an event called the Bootleg Ballroom at the Northampton Center for the Arts in this Jan. 28, 2012 file photo.

NEW HAVEN -- The Yale University Bands, specifically, the Yale Concert Band and Jazz Ensemble, take audiences back to 1943-'44, 7:30 p.m. Friday at Woolsey Hall with "Cole Porter and Glenn Miller ...

You can take the kid out of the jazz band, but you can’t take the jazz band out of the kid. Or something like that. It’s a formula that sits at the core of Bruce Cameron of Elgin, organizer and ...

“Swing!,” which opens tonight at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, is a dance show. But not the way “A Chorus Line” or “West Side Story” or “Chicago” are dance shows. While those musicals may feature some ...

Martha Tilton, 91, a glamorous blond singer of the big-band era called "Liltin' Miss Tilton" for her easy-mannered vocals and the last surviving star of Benny Goodman's landmark 1938 swing concert at ...

2002-10-22 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Abe Most, a swing clarinetist known for working with the Les Brown and Tommy Dorsey bands in the 1940s and 50s, has died. He was 82. Mr. Most, who later went to ...

Imagine sashaying into a night club, looking to get down to some thumping electro, only to hear swing music from the 1930s. That's just what you'd hear if you happen into a club where the band Caravan ...

Adam P. Newton recently became a father for the first time, so he has decided to explain the entirety of post-WWII Western pop music to his new daughter, “Fig”… one genre at a time. What’s up, Fig?

Once upon a time, deep in the heart of Texas, siblings Hulda, Sophia and Grace Quebe all decided to pick up the violin and take lessons together at the behest of their mother, who wanted the girls to ...