POTTSVILLE — The M&J Big Band of Pottsville is “swinging into 2025” with “energy, passion and a full slate of performances” as it celebrates its 15th anniversary “of delivering the iconic sounds of ...

The Big Band Alumni is a 17-piece big band that features some musicians that are graduates of the greatest big bands of all time like Benny Goodman, Harry James, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Count Basie ...

Harold V. May is perhaps best remembered in the Berkshires as an industrial inventor. But he had a musical ear, and in the heyday of the jazzy, bluesy, danceable Big Band Era of the late 1920s and ...

Syncopated rhythms and tight harmonies are signatures of the big-band era, done at their best with small vocal groups. Now imagine taking those songs and putting them in the hands of a choir easily ...

The Big Band era is alive and well for a group of local musicians whose taste for jazz drew them to one another, and into the Calumet Ridge Jazz Ensemble. For trumpet player Tony Barenie, "there's ...