Jazz orchestras in America have dwindled to a precious few. Once a dominant jazz aggregation from the 1920s into the early 1970s, the big band tradition is now largely a museum piece relegated to ...

Holiday music in the twenty-first century embraces both the old and new with equal creative consideration. Without a new recording of Handel's Messiah, we must rely on the inevitable evolution of the ...

3 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere Part of the orchestra’s new Sunday Sessions series, the program will feature lively melodies and improvisational spirit from the 1920s, brought to ...

When Charleston’s Gatsby Orchestra plays “The Charleston” during Piccolo Spoleto, don’t expect the tinny-sounding, scratchy-needle-on-a-Victrola 1920s jazz you hear in the movies or on TV. The music ...