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Finding that Jazz Unites - I love living in Chicago. Chicago is a truly great city and for those of you who live and have lived much of your lives, on either coast, you may just think of the city as a place to fly over or perhaps an airport you are often required...

Dixieland - Dixieland music is a style of jazz which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s. Dixieland jazz combined brass band marches, French quadrilles, ragtime and blues with collective, polyphonic improvisation...

Gypsy jazz - Gypsy jazz (also known as "Gypsy Swing") is an idiom sometimes said to have been started by the Ferré brothers in the late 1920s, which later became popular due to the work of guitarist Django Reinhardt in the 1930s. Because its origins are largely in France it is often called...

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Set to Release New Album: How Big Can You -

Multi-Platinum Award winning little big bands tribute to legendary Cab Calloway entitled How Big Can You Get hits stores April 21st!

How Big Can You Get (Big Bad/Vanguard Records) on April 21, 2009. The 11 song CD, their eighth album, is a tribute to Cab Calloway, the legendary band...

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The first time I ever really paid attention to or appreciated big band and/or swing music was when I...

Freedom Suite - Once again we're paying a visit to Concord's tribute to long-time producer Orrin Keepnews, the Keepnews Collection, a series of 24-bit reissues of a number of timeless jazz recordings. (Previously: Wes Montgomery, Coleman Hawkins, Nat Adderley.) In this review, we're covering Freedom Suite, Sonny Rollins' 1958 classic. Unlike most of the...

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