The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The beating heart of Athens would not have the same beat without the genesis of ...

Featuring an All-Star Lineup: Hannah Gill, Queen Esther, Gabe Terraccciano, Alphonso Horne, Justin Poindexter, Gordon Webster, Patrick Soluri, and more. As a relatively new group founded in 2018, the ...

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing — all you’ve got to do is stagger your timing. For decades, fans of jazz music have debated why some songs have swing — the characteristic swaying ...

Paul Cosentino’s Boilermaker Jazz Band brings the sounds of the jazz age and swing era back to life. Interpreting Jazz Classics and The Great American Songbook in their own unique fashion, you’ll hear ...

The recent Southeast Junior High jazz band concert reminded me how community music is all around us. I had a compelling reason to attend in that a grandson was in the band. What I hadn’t counted on ...

Big bands were built in the 1920s and ’30s to blast young dancers with layers of rhythm, but creative composers seeking a larger canvas have kept the form alive. Hear 12 big selections. By Giovanni ...

Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman plays in 2019. Swing is an essential component of nearly all kinds of jazz music. Physicists think that subtle nuances in the timing of soloists are key to creating that ...

Paul Carr and company at Blues Alley; courtesy of Paul Carr 2024 is the “Year of the Big Band,” according to the good folks at the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, and aren’t they the experts on these ...

The Community Band ‘Swing into Spring’  concert is scheduled for Sunday, March 15 at Merritt Island High School Auditorium.

The Odessa College Jazz Band, under the direction of Eric Baker, department chair of Visual and Performing Arts, will perform a free concert at the Globe Theatre at 7 p.m. April 18. The band, renowned ...

Blues and jazz gave birth to swing music, and Colorado played a role in that development. The music was nurtured in the state by Glenn Miller, who began his musical exploration in Fort Morgan, as well ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The Athens-based jazz collective Swing Theory brings a post-1940s jazz style to the ...