A Swingin’ Affair Big Band in Concert” at the Scituate Center for Performing Arts, Bandleader Steve Bass delivers 16 of Boston’s top professional instrumental artists and vocalist Donnie ...

A six-month gig on the NBC radio program “Let’s Dance” gave ... legacy of unforgettable music. 5. The success of Louis Armstrong and his band during the swing era infuriated snobs.

The Swing Era ... Music includes the complete scores and parts for the arrangements used by The Gordon Dooley Orchestra. The parts, stored by arrangement in book order, include 182 titles, primarily ...

Ask a music geek or a historian and they will probably tell you that the big-band era that was born with radio relay of the Benny Goodman band at L.A.'s Palomar Ballroom on Aug. 21, 1935 ...

Long after the World War II era, swing-era big band music remained a staple of Mobile’s Mardi Gras balls. Among its leading practitioners was Bill Lagman, a trumpeter and bandleader whose ...

On a recent Saturday morning, big band music spilled from the open doors ... moving the band into a new era. He updated the band’s catalog, adding numbers from John Coltrane, Miles Davis and ...

When and where: 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, Scituate Center for the Performing Arts, 606 Chief Cushing Highway About: Boston’s premiere ... songs from popular Big Band-era singers ...