The Glenn Miller Orchestra will perform at Mechanics Hall on Nov. 16, and music director Eric Stabnau thinks it's an ideal ...

Each band had its own arranger, who wrote the music. Although there were still some improvised solos in swing music, playing the parts that were written by the arranger was very important.

He was also influenced by the music his African-American friends sang in the cotton fields and later by Hispanic musicians in New Mexico. And he was influenced by “swing” music—an offshoot ...

Once upon a time jazz heads could hit such Big Apple venues as the Cotton Club (if they were white) and the Savoy and dance the night away to the likes of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis ...

who now leads Dan Gabel and the Abletones which plays Swing era classics. "This is definitely a special era of music," Stabnau said. "For many it's nostalgia music." While audiences at Glen Miller ...