Big Band (genre)

2013 Grammy Award nominees

2012-12-06 17:03:00

Indie-rock trio Fun. and R&B/hip-hop star Frank Ocean scored big in Grammy Award nominations, scoring six nods apiece mostly in the top Grammy categories. The Recording Academy announced the nominations Wednesday during a show in Nashville. The 55th...

Bill Cosby makes more Playboy Jazz Festival memories

2012-06-18 00:00:00

As a jazz fan, you really have to savor the select moments of the Playboy Jazz Festival, which began its 34th installment Saturday at its longtime home, the Hollywood Bowl. Because as a stand-alone, multi-day barometer of the state of the music, the...

Disneyland princesses moving into new Fantasy Faire village in 2013

2011-08-23 18:31:00

Breaking a wicked stepmother's curse, Disneyland's fairytale princesses will be whisked away from their crowded one-room temporary home in 2013 and magically transported to a spacious new storybook village more befitting of their royal lineage. Blame...

Jim Marshall dies at 88; creator of famed rock 'n' roll amplifiers

2012-04-06 00:00:00

It was the physical embodiment of rock's power and majesty — a wall of black, vinyl-clad cabinets, one atop the other, crowned with a rectangular box containing the innovative circuitry that revolutionized the music. This was the famed Marshall...

Johnny Otis dies at 90; R&B singer wrote 'Willie and the Hand Jive'

2012-01-19 00:00:00

Pioneering rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, drummer, bandleader and disc jockey Johnny Otis made the kind of conscious life choice early on that few people have the inclination, or circumstance, to carry out. Born white, the son of Greek immigrant...

Bob Brookmeyer dies at 81; jazz trombonist, composer

2011-12-19 00:00:00

Bob Brookmeyer, a jazz trombonist, composer, arranger and educator whose multifaceted career reached from cutting-edge performances with Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz to innovative big band compositions and highly regarded classes at the New England...

Pete Rugolo dies at 95; jazz arranger, composer

2011-10-18 00:00:00

Pete Rugolo, an award-winning composer and arranger who came to prominence in the world of jazz as the chief arranger for Stan Kenton's post-World War II band and later wrote the themes for TV's "The Fugitive" and "Run for Your Life," has died. He was 95....

Grammys: Jazz nominees mix fresh faces with familiar reliables

2011-11-30 21:33:09

Georgia Carroll Kyser dies at 91; model, actress sang with husband's big band

2011-01-20 00:00:00

Georgia Carroll Kyser, a fashion model in the 1930s and '40s who became an actress and a singer with her husband Kay Kyser's big band, died Friday in Chapel Hill, N.C. She was 91. The cause was not revealed. Born Nov. 18, 1919, in Blooming Grove, Texas,...

The Agenda: John Altman Big Band @ LACMA

2010-11-19 16:34:15

The big bands are here alright

2010-11-27 16:32:46

Young LA musicians dominate the Next Generation Jazz Festival

2011-04-08 21:33:24

Shades of Blue Orchestra plays big band-style music associated with entertainers such as Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie and Artie Shaw. The band will open the Pen Mar Park concert season with a show Sunday, May 27.

2012-05-24 00:00:00

The Brazilian singer-guitarist Paulinho Garcia has been beguiling listeners in his adopted hometown of Chicago for more than three decades. Yet for all his copious experience here � and around the world � as singer, songwriter and instrumentalist, he never has led a big band in his own music.

2012-02-09 14:17:01

American Big Band production

2011-10-17 13:42:26