Back in my high school days, the absolute pinnacle of romance was the annual Valentine’s Day dance: everyone dressed to the ...

The Lincoln City Cultural Center and the Lincoln Pops Big Band invite people to spend Valentine’s Day with all their Big Band ...

Other awardees this year are Nataki Garrett (theater), Shamel Pitts (dance), Esperanza Spalding (jazz), Chay Yew (theater), and Miguel Zenón (jazz). MUSIC: Indigenous Big Band to headline Kennedy ...

They passed ownership of the dance club at 1590 Sunbury Road to the ... while Tommy Dorsey also drew a large crowd in 1938. The big band craze of the 1950s took off at Valley Dale, making it ...

“Nobody was thinking of dancing. Big bands had no place to ... were absorbed into the jazz idiom as a whole. Big-band music began to appear more often on records. Basie collected a new full ...

They’re back. After a year-and-a-half hiatus, the Prior Lake-based swing music group SteamHeat will once again share its big band sound with the community. The band’s 15 members and ...

The University of North Dakota Swing Club recently hosted an event Friday Jan. 24, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. that brought ...

The Caz – South Buffalo’s new music venue – is preparing to host The George Scott Big Band for its first ever ... Amenities include mezzanine seating, a dance floor, up-to-date video screens ...

Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious, brass band ... to both the music and the increasingly suggestive jazz dances.