Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, a jazz big band featuring a handful of the Pacific Northwest’s ample improvisatory talent, ...

When your drumming career begins at age 19 in the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, playing for jazz legends like Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman and Count Basie, it’s more than a great start. To perform with Ella ...

They started a permanent jazz orchestra in a town that was not Chicago ... We asked: Isn’t our audience getting too old, they’re going to fade away, how do we replace those people?” ...

When your drumming career begins at age 19 in the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ... jazz, good drummers indicate good bands. Saturday’s program will be what Hamilton describes as a musical version of ...