Born in 1909, around the same time that trad jazz was emerging in New Orleans, Barker lived with his parents, Moses Barker ...

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The Bucknell University Jazz Band offers students of all majors and academic interests the opportunity to experience modern and historically important literature in a traditional big band environment.

The University Jazz Lab Band is dedicated to the well-prepared performance of big band charts where careful attention is given to style and detail. Literature includes both traditional and ...

This exciting and versatile ensemble performs a wide variety of jazz charts from traditional big band to modern fusion. BC bOp!’s instrumental and vocal resources allow the ensemble to create a broad ...

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Roy Ayers, whose hypnotic vibraphone playing and genre-blending compositions transformed jazz and influenced generations of ...

Anyone who doesn't like jazz has no real feeling for music or people ... catering for every taste from modern to mainstream, and trad to funkier flavours in a series of weekly, monthly or ...

Saxophone virtuoso Charlie Parker, left, brought Miles Davis, right, into his bebop band in the 1940s ... who could move easily from traditional to experimental jazz Big-band virtuoso Duke ...