Music and swing News

Amazing Country Talent Compared to Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline

Experience Ayako Shirasaki, a Japanese jazz pianist now living in New York, November 17 -27, 2011 in Germany and Switzerland in solo and trio concerts.

Students to stage homage to the Big Band sound

Country western swing band leader Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys are the next act featured on DMusic Records retrospective Classic Roots series. Twenty five classics by the fiddling cowboy maestro are resurrected and remastered here.

Casting New Lives is now representing The Tom Daugherty Orchestra! Bringing the sounds of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and other Kings of Swing, leader Tom Daugherty keeps the big band sound alive with his electrifying music and attention to detail!

With Concerts Saturday, February 27, 8 pm at Park Theatre in Cranston, RI & Sunday, February 28, 4 pm at Wilbur Theatre in Boston, MA

Jan Matthies Records releases a live recording from the 1st International Jazz Solo Piano Festival at Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany. Liner notes by Howard Mandel, President of The Jazz Journalists Association.

Seattle-based Prohibition-era jazz band released their long-awaited debut CD this month.