Big Band Heroes

Before a band can swing, someone has to write the chart - and this program honors the architects behind the sound: Gil Evans, Count Basie, Slide Hampton, Woody Herman, and others who knew how to make a horn section move as one. Big Band Heroes digs into their arrangements, with the ensemble locking into that unmistakable groove where the whole room starts to move with the kind of energy that only a full big band can bring. This is swing as serious art form, still very much alive.