NPR

Living Legends: Quincy Jones

In the mid-1950s, Quincy Jones was part of the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band at a time when the U.S. State Department sent them on a goodwill tour around the globe. It was during the Cold War, and ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Big Band and big crowds on Admiral Rollin’ on the River > 1950s • Times were changing, but the Admiral’s popularity remained the same.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. By the early 1950s, the country was at war in Korea, massive tracts of homes were built in the suburbs, cars were sold to ...
The Pilot

SCC Jazz Band Presents "A Cavalcade of Big Bands"

The SCC Jazz Band, the “Sound of Swing in the Sandhills” for over 57 years, will hold a concert on Monday, Nov. 10, at the Bradshaw Performing Arts Center on ...
Chicago Reader

“Tom Tom” Washington’s South Side Big Band revitalizes midcentury hip

Pianist, arranger, producer, and bandleader Thomas “Tom Tom” Washington grew up in Bronzeville’s Ida B. Wells Homes and studied under legendary composer and musician James Mack, best known for ...