University of Mobile Announces 2015-2016 Performing Arts Season
The University of Mobile has announced its 2015-2016 Performing Arts season, featuring music events and its annual Christmas Spectacular show.
Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Play the Saenger Monday
Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra made a rare Mobile appearance at the Saenger Theatre on Monday, March 5, 2012 — a stop local jazz fans were…
Flutist Bradley Leighton Brought Big-Band Fire to Mobile’s GCEH Jazz Fest
San Diego flutist Bradley Leighton took the 6:30 p.m. slot in Bienville Square — rain location 351 Water Street — on August 7, 2010, backed by some of Mobile’s best…
Jazz Appreciation Month: Remembering Mobile-Born Trombone Great Urbie Green
April is Jazz Appreciation Month, a national observance created to spotlight the musicians who shaped America’s homegrown art form. In Mobile, that means looking back at the city’s own contributions…
Jazz Appreciation Month: Mobile’s Own, Part 6 — Cootie Williams and the Sound That Redefined the Trumpet
For Jazz Appreciation Month, a look back at Mobile-born trumpeter Cootie Williams, whose growling plunger-mute style with Duke Ellington's orchestra and decades on the bandstand made him one of the…
Jazz Appreciation Month: Remembering Mobile-Born Jazz Great Ward Swingle
Each April, Jazz Appreciation Month gives South Alabama a reason to look back at the musicians the region produced who went on to shape jazz far beyond the Port City.…