Glenn Miller is a legendary composer, trombonist, and big bandleader. The music icon, however, disappeared in 1944 and was ...

In the late 1940s Anita O‘Day suffered her first drug ... Although O‘Day had already started out on her own path as the big band era began to fade, the end of the decade would prove ...

Al Porcino was an American jazz trumpeter. Porcino began playing professionally in 1943, playing in many big bands of the 1940s and 1950s, including those of Georgie Auld, Louis Prima, Jerry Wald, ...

In the 1940s, when most women singers adorned big bands as stage attractions rather than legitimate members of jazz ensembles, Sarah Vaughan, along with her predecessor Ella Fitzgerald, helped elevate ...

CLARKSVILLE, TN − This fall, the Cumberland Winds Jazz Project is recreating an old-time radio show from the 1940s in a nod ...

The Jazz Ambassadors present a versatile musical program that has earned them international recognition and appeals to all ages, from the big band sounds of the 1940s to the contemporary hits of today ...