When rock ’n’ roll arrived, a lot of the older jazz musicians — and even more so, jazz fans — professed to detest it. Yet at least as late as the end of the 1960s, jazz and rock had more in common ...

The writer may have been mistaken about a big band renaissance, but Eshelman is still on mission, and he opens a run of gigs ...

Set your time machine for 1960s Las Vegas. The lights are low, the air hums with swing, and the Rat Pack is headlining The Sands. Ol’ Blue Eyes leads the way, joined by Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., ...

Even though its renowned leader and trombonist passed away in 2005, and the Dave Robbins Big Band's Happy Faces was recorded some forty years before that, the music on this remarkable album remains as ...