When and where: 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, Scituate Center for the Performing Arts, 606 Chief Cushing Highway About: Boston’s premiere Rat Pack tribute big band sets up shop on the South Shore ...

Songs of the 40s (Ralna English) Episode 46 | 57m 44s Video has Closed Captions | CC. It's the classic hits of the Big Band Era on this episode. This program is filled with the classic hits that ...

1. In 1934, after years of struggle, the American clarinetist Benny Goodman assembled a band that included Gene Krupa on drums, Bunny Berigan on trumpet and Helen Ward on vocals. A six-month gig ...

There are influences from the jazz era of the 1920s and 30s, ragtime of the early 1900s, and the big band era of the 1940s. In its current form, pop music is adaptable and eclectic and borrows ...

Big Band era salute with The O-Tones! Honoring musicians of the Big Band era, The O-Tones present a show with songs by Tony Bennett, The Andrews Sisters, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, ...

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, ended ...

He says, every ensemble back in the big band era had their own unique personality created by those arranging the music and the talent of those playing the various instruments from a rhythm section ...

I’ll close with music from a big band leader who first rose to prominence in the Swing Era and managed to sustain his orchestra into the 1970s and 80s—a feat matched by only a handful of ...