since becoming a familiar face at Cast Party and with the Birdland Big Band, she’s gone on to win the Grammy for best jazz vocal album. She started her mini set-within-a-set with “20 Seconds,” from ...

The Ulysses Owens, Jr. Big Band, bearing the name of its drummer ... Kurt Elling reported that he’ll march back into Birdland in March with a set of songs from the repertoire of that band ...

She is the vocalist for the world famous Birdland Big Band and the Dan Pugach Nonet, the winner of the New York Coffee Music Project Songwriting Competition, ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers ...

That was my friend, as the lights came up after the Emmet Cohen show at Birdland on January 13th. I turned to look at the faces of all three of my guests; everyone was agog with wide eyes, big smiles, ...