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AKRON, Ohio — The U.S. Air Force’s premier jazz ensemble will bring its 18-piece big band to Ohio next month as part of a ...

Guests can step back in time and enjoy the music of the 1950s as Mark Gionfriddo brings his “It’s The Wildest!” show back to ...

The earliest spoken-word recordings of Louisiana Creole, a uniquely American language at risk of extinction, have been ...

When Joe Lovano joined Woody Herman’s big band in 1976, he discovered that one of his fellow saxophonists had a secret stash of reel-to-reel recordings. “Sometimes on the bus he’d put headphones on me ...

Few great musicians, either popular or “classical,” have been so historically “hard done by” as Gertrude “Ma” Rainey. Until ...

These are my 50 greatest songs of all time. Come and sing and dance, shout and argue, make discoveries, lament omissions and ...

Take in a dark skies evening, spooky music, ghost tours, a Halloween laugh and classic music.

Broadway standards, Brazilian choro and a superhero soundtrack share the stage when the SIU School of Music’s Jazz Ensemble ...

Jethro Tull were one of the most unpredictable bands on the planet, with a sound that danced around genres. These are some of ...

Dear listeners, The World Series is in full swing! Battling it out this year are two teams that have never won it before — the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays — which ...

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