On Friday night, Woolsey Hall will be transported back to the 1940s for a musical taste of wartime spirit. The Yale Bands, directed by Thomas Duffy, will perform a concert titled “1940s Holiday ...

It was a great time in the country’s history. World War II was over. The music was jazzy, brassy, upbeat and swing. And it was as if the whole nation was tuned in to the same sound. The bands were big ...

Somehow, the 1940s are almost a century away. The decade, which saw the world go to war for a second time and the fall of the German Nazis, was also an exhilarating time for music. In some ways, it ...

A brassy tribute to the 1940s swing era, “In The Mood,” is a big-band music revue that has been touring all over the world — and now, in its 21st year the show makes its first stopover in New Orleans ...

Walking down the steps of the Beanery is not a portal to the past. The photos on the walls depicting James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and the Rat Pack are the closest that patrons will get to the 1940s and ...

Kellie Fuller and Mike Greensill, in association with Amplifi Napa Valley, present “A Night at the Dream Bowl” at the Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St., Napa, on Thursday, Oct. 10. According to promoters, ...

Celebrate the season with a free big band holiday show at Thrasher Opera House, Green Lake. Join Fox Cities Swing Band at 1 p ...

MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - People swung to the music in Marquette today for the Westerly Winds Big Band’s last gig of the year ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Cincinnati Museum Center celebrated the 1940s. Sunday was 1940s Day at Union Terminal. People got to check out classic cars, jazz and big band music, and costume contests. Many ...

I was looking through my music collection and I realized that I really don't have very much music from the 1940s and early 50s (i.e. pre-Elvis, pre-Rock Around the Clock). Here's some stuff that I ...

The score that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross composed for HBO’s limited series “Watchmen” could be boiled down to this: It was the most Nine Inch Nails of times, it was the least Nine Inch Nails of ...